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View from (new) Living Room, originally uploaded by plumandlion.

My weekend was spent in the car. It felt like we were on a long never-ending road trip. On Friday we went to Ikea Elizabeth and picked up base cabinets for the kitchen, only to figure out later that we didn't account for the width of the water pipes.

Saturday we took a 4 hour round trip drive to Mine Hill, New Jersey where there was a new Kohler tub for $200 at the Habitat for Humanity Restore. Unfortunately someone beat us to it by an hour. No tub. We did pick up a pendant lamp that looks Danish Modern that we plan on hanging in the living room.

Back to Ikea Red Hook on Sunday for about four hours of waiting in lines and reordering kitchen cabinets. The saving grace to Sunday was ducking into Fairway around 4pm for a late lunch on the waterfront. The temperature was amazingly mild enough as we watched the skies turn pink over the water.

We're still waiting on one more bid for the bathroom redo. The first two being higher than we anticipated. I was hoping to settle this before taking off to have Thanksgiving with the Minzenbergs in Pittsburgh tomorrow. Humph. Good things come to those who are patient?

New Ikea storage jars

I'm digging these new celeber jars from Ikea that are ceramic with acacia wood rimmed see-through lids. They look like the perfect solution to my growing baking needs.

(image from Ikea)

Sunday shopping

We left Pond Eddy early yesterday to get some Sunday shopping done at IKEA. I personally hate going to IKEA on the weekends. Weeknights are best for going in, grabbing what you want, and checking out. Things that you want are more likely to be stocked on the shelves as well. They did not have any new catalogs to give out but the new products were on the shelves. One new favorite I discovered while there is the STRIKT series for storage.

The STRIKT magazine files come two in a pack for $8.99. One is smaller than the other. It won't look too uniform but for the price, they will look lovely on my new white LACK shelf. I also got some larger STRIKT storage boxes for my overwhelming fabric scraps collection.

(image via ikea)