It’s been a year since we were in Ikea…. ever since we moved from Michigan, and got our Moby… I haven’t been back and that’s a shame cuz I love Ikea… I haven’t gotten into their furniture and all, although, someday I might. I just love all their kitchen and organizing stuff and their candles… wonderful stuff and pretty reasonably priced.

I’ve been trying to stay out of big box stores for the last month and doing a great job. But I just really had my heart set on these french canning jars… and everywhere I looked, they were like $15 to $20 a JAR!!! And then I remembered…. Ikea has them! And they are like $4 each! Yahoo!

So we loaded up the old Lumi van and off we went a couple mornings ago. It’s nice working for yourself and knowing that you can just take off when you want. Work will be waiting for ya when you get back. Besides, my kids are getting back into school and college in just a few days, so I wanted one last fling fun day of the summer for us!

Well… we got…. two different kinds of strainers, a pair of flexible cutting mats, 4 liter sized jars and 4 2-liter sized jars, 8 different candles, a picture frame, 2 of those cool tin storage boxes, oh, some of those bright colored little snack bowls and snack plates for kids….we love those! 6 cute little beige bowls for small cereal or like oatmeal, that kind of thing… super cute little tin watering can for the indoor plants, two packs of yummy cinnamon rolls because they are awesome and a few other little gadgets that I don’t remember now!  HAHAHA…. well, hey, when you go once a year, you are ready to spend a little cash.

Actually, it wasn’t bad…  all that stuff for $103!    And we had a fun fun day, us girls shopping and the drive wasn’t too bad, it’s about an hour from Toledo.  We looked all over and oohed and ahhhed and all that.  I  put a lot of cool staples in our jars already… noodles and pasta and rice and breadcrumbs and kosher salt and they look SO cool…  and will keep much better and longer than half opened old bags and such.

I’m having Tim rip out an old nasty cupboard in my kitchen and install two super sturdy shelves, just to display all the pretty glassware and all.  It’s going to totally help my storage issues and it’s going to look nicer than the nasty old cupboards.

I’d like to redo the whole kitchen, but one piece at a time you know!  That’s the Moby Homesteadin’ way….

But gosh… the new Ikea catalog is coming out soooooooon……  might have to make another trip in a few months!