I love babycenter.com

Thanks to babycenter.com I found my all time favourite crib I've ever seen!!

Check this site out for more pictures and colours and such.

If you think about how much you'd spend even at IKEA on a crib, change table, toddler bed and full sized bed, I think this is a great deal.

At IKEA (cheapest):

SNIGLAR crib: $79.99

SNIGLAR change table: $29.99

SNIGLAR toddler bed: $59.99

FJELLSE full sized bed: $49.00

TOTAL: $218.97

At IKEA (ones I want):

HENSVIK crib: $139.99

HENSVIK shelf plus change table top: $129.00 + $30.00

GULLIVER toddler bed: $149.00

BRIMNES full sized bed: $129.00

TOTAL: $576.99

Now even if you take the toddler beds out of the picture (because the side will come off the cribs) the cheapest set still comes to $158.98 and the set that I would get comes to $427.99. I would never get the cheapest set so really at the price that the convertible bed is, it`s a savings. Plus you only need to do slight adjustments through out the child's life to change it up.

IKEA Baby Things

IKEA didn't seem to have baby cribs and such on their site a few weeks ago. I checked back and they've got them on there again so I'm going to post the things that I would like to get in the future so that I can remember the links for everything.

Gulliver Crib

Gulliver Change Table

Hemnes Chest with Changing Table Top

Hensvik Crib

Hensvik Shelf with Changing Table Top

Thinking happy thoughts...

I'm going shopping with our friends and hubby tomorrow. We're going to a store downtown and then we're headed a few hours away to go to a cool store and probably the big mall. I'm excited.

In a few weeks we should be headed to ikea too :) I can't wait to buy a bookshelf and some other things.

Wish List Wednesday: IKEA Edition

It's that time again! This week I'm doing what I want from IKEA. I know I just went there on May 28th but I still have things I want because I couldn't buy them or didn't know about them.

1. BESTÅ

Shelf unit in black-brown

We've already got one of these but it's almost full. This matches our current living room colour scheme and I would love to have like 3 more of these because we can also put them in the bedroom as our bedroom furniture is black-brown too.

2. EXPEDIT

Bookcase in pretty much any colour

I especially want a LOT of these because I'm planning on using this type of shelf with the cloth drawers for storage in a baby room.

3. GÅSER

Rug, high pile in blue-grey.

It would match our bedding perfectly!

4. EKTORP TULLSTA

Armchair in black or white

This would go nicely in a corner of our bedroom near a nice big mirror.

5.  BYHOLMA

Chest in grey 

or

KOMPLEMENT

Interior chest of drawers in black-brown

I would put this at the foot of the bed for storage.

Totally busy day

Tonight my husband built my Ikea DVD shelf for me! Isn't it pretty? All our DVDs used to be stacked in columns up and down instead of side to side rows like this shelf. That was ugly and hard to reorganize and pull off the shelves.

Today we barely sat down. We were busy moving things to get ready for the dry waller to come on Tuesday. He's going to be adding some fire resistant (30 min) dry wall or something to all the walls and ceilings between the main part of the house and the suite. My brother and husband patched up some big trenches in the ceiling. Mom and I did some recycling (cans and such) and then cleared out the laundry room to be dry walled. The guys took the cupboards down and then mom and I stacked them all in my brother's room. He's moving out next weekend and his bedroom is one of the two that will be part of the suite so we're storing stuff in there while he's still living there because we can't have the dry waller do his room until he has moved.

I cooked lunch for everyone which gave me time to sit down around 1pm because I was waiting for water to boil. Tee hee! We probably didn't all stop working until around 4pm. Couple that with our 15 hour day yesterday and I swear none of us feel like we got a break this weekend. Can't it be Saturday tomorrow?

Finally home

Yeah so we're finally home after a 15 hour day. I'm thankful I found a blogger app for Android though. I should have figured there would be one since Android is totally all about Google and Google seems to own Blogger.

The above picture is a picture of all our loots. We of course didn't buy the sweaters and three of the long boxes are my mom's bookshelves but everything else is ours.

We spent over $1800 after taxes and before coupons/gift cards and then another $130 to have them ship the bed to us (not in the picture). I know I posted the number before but it wasn't this exact. My mom spent just under $300 by herself lol.

This is one of three bus compartments. Most of the boxes in here are ours... lol

And I leave you with a final comment. One... freaking... long... day!

Ikea Bus Review

Here are my comments about the Ikea bus and the days schedule.
Schedule:
- leave depot at 7:30
- arrive at ferry at 8
- get on 9:00 ferry
- at ikea by 11ish
- big boxes to the bus by 2:30
- go to big warehouse for big items by 3:15
- 5:00 ferry
- at the depot by 7:30
My Thoughts:
The time at Ikea was perfect for us but a little longer would have been nice. It gave us just over 3 hours to buy everything and get back to the bus to load. We were stressing for a while in the self serve warehouse though. We had three flats and one shopping cart with three people pushing.
If we hadn't come into the store knowing exactly what we were looking at, we wouldn't have had enough time. We hadn't chosen our dressers for example but we knew we were going to stick with the MALM series for our bedroom and the LACK series in black brown for the living room.
It was annoying to get to the ferry terminal just as the 8:00 sailing was leaving and have to wait an hour to board  especially when we could have left later and still gotten the 9:00 or a little earlier and gotten the 8:00 and had an extra hour to shop.
Between the three of us who went, we spent almost $2000 plus the money to ship our king size bed to our house.

Ikea

Right now I am leaving the house headed to Ikea to shop for bedroom/living room/dining room furniture. I am so excited. I will be back as soon as I can with a list of everything that we bought today.

It's going to be a long day. We start out at the bus station at 7:30, get on the ferry, drive to Ikea from there and then spend the day there. Sometime in the late afternoon/early evening we will get back on the bus, drive, take the ferry and arrive back at home at 7:30pm. It's a 12 hour day, all for Ikea.

And to think I'm doing this willingly, on a Saturday. Who woulda thunk it?