Getting sorted...

Time's flying, x-mas is just around the corner and there is lots to be done before then! The nursery is in a complete mess (never got around it last weekend...) and the living room area needs some "cheering up".

So last night we went to our favorite store (no need to mention it's IKEA) to pick up an armchair with a complementing footstool. As it's painful for my hips to sit in the sofa, I've been longing to get this chair.

When Shawn, the handyman, opened the package to put the chair together it became clear that we had received the wrong coloured frame! Later, back at IKEA's exchange counter, he was told that the colour we want is out of stock and won't be in store until early January!! Until then, our dear friends Moa and David are the knights in shining armour as they are lending us their armchair whilst they are in Sweden for the next three months! So all good in the end :-).

(In January we will have the same coloured frame as on the picture but with a dark brown leather seat, as leather is easier to wipe down than textile...yep, we're aware of the mess that is about to come...)