Ikea, I hear you calling my name.

Ashlee and I decided we wanted to make one last trip down to Dallas before school started. She needed some things from Ikea, so away we went. We drove down Thursday afternoon, checked into our hotel and went to Hobby Lobby for some beading supplies. Ashlee is into making beaded key chains. The Geiger girls (well, one Geiger, one Johnson) came over after work and spent the night with us. Poor Isaac. Every time Ashlee and I go to Dallas, he has school or a scheduled activity. This time, he was celebrating his softball league's championship win. Yay, Isaac!
So, the girls beaded and we stayed up talking and laughing until 3:00a.m. and the girls had to leave at 5:30a.m. Poor Kristen. They were headed to Houston to visit family. Wish they could have stayed longer. Love those girls.
Ashlee and I wanted to visit the Nasher Sculpture Center again.

(http://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/)
It was great because we saw some new things. It's hard to believe all this incredible artwork is from one private collection. What a gift to the city of Dallas. If you have any interest at all in art, it is definitely a place to visit, probably sans young children. Most of the sculptures make you want to touch them and you aren't allowed, a difficult rule for me to follow!
Here are some photos from our visit:

Look, my glass is full of Ash! I wanted her to stand behind it so you could tell how tall the sculpture really is.

This is a de Koonig sculpture and I have to say it scares me a little. Reminds me of some scary horror movie monster. Intriguing, but not one of my faves.

Me behind a Barbara Hepworth sculpture.Food from the cafe at Nasher. I had a delicious chicken salad and Ashlee had a pecan tuna salad sandwich.
After we left the sculpture center, we stopped by Ikea. You lose all sense of time inside that gargantuan store. We took a break from shopping and had a treat. It was a lovely little dessert called a Princess Cake.
A dessert fit for royalty.We bought several things Friday night and we headed back Saturday morning with a plan. Boy, did we get a lot of stuff. You should have seen us loading all of our things. It was a hundred degrees and Ashlee bought a filing system/cabinet that was in several boxes. There were a few tense moments. We all know how I love the heat. Any way, I had decided that I needed to turn one of the bedrooms into an office/craft room for me. This is all the stuff I bought:
This is an artist's rendering (comes in handy to have an art teacher daughter) of what the completed room will look like after we paint, organize, and get the cabinets, desk, and sofa. Had to order them online because we didn't have enough room in the Durango.

Thank you for the shopping plan and the sketches, Ashlee. Can't wait to get started on this room. A little advice: try to go to Ikea any day except Saturday and before the back-to-college rush. Whoo boy, it was a mad house.

In honor of Ikea's birthplace (Sweden) I have chosen a song by those fabulous songbirds from the land of Swedes, ABBA. Get down with your bad self, all you dancin' queens!