Insider - yeah I am lucky like that

So one of the part time jobs B has taken on is one  at Ikea... and I got the call today...

The 2012 catalog is out to employees 3 weeks early... and being married to an employee mean I get to have a sneak peak at it tonight when he brings it home.

Yes, I know Ikea has a rep for being the ideal way to furnish your college dorm, but if you are creative and use some of their pieces in unsuspecting ways you can really create a bang for your buck, and I need my bucks to stretch a little bit further these days.

Check out this blog for some creative ideas people have come up with: Ikea Hackers
 

This is one of the small favorites of mine - but there are some really great ideas I promise!

So needless to say I am super excited to page through the catalog and dream up all the fabulous ways I can make my house a home.  And they always seem to have great looking rooms - and great color schemes...

And speaking of making my house a home, I am pretty sure my daughter has perfected this.  After I cleaned her room top to bottom, finally centering a shelf over her bed and finally putting on the hardware on her new purple desk... Emily chose to tear down her cute ruffle curtains and by tearing them down I mean - ruining the curtain rod and everything... then she proceeded to take all her pillows out of their pillow cases...throw her duvet on the ground... dump out all the balls out of the ball pit the was neatly hidden under her bed and throw plastic fruit all over her room. 

So yeah - my house has that home-y lived in feeling now.  I am thrilled.  I also called my husband and told him that I deserve a can or two of dark blue paint for dealing with today...

I think he might be game with this deal - since I am not asking for expensive boots (the usual bribe/you owe me deal)...but it is about to be boot season (at least in the stores - I am expecting snow suits to start showing up in August - in fact I know they will be there).

Sigh, I am worn out.  Props to all the stay at home moms who have not gone insane.  It has barely been over a week for me and I am sitting here with a glass of wine blogging a poor me post. God I am weak.

But the wine is so good :)