Rough night, excellent reason to shop

Mama wasn’t feeling well last night and so she woke me at 2 a.m. After a difficult few hours, she finally fell asleep at around 10 a.m. but I’ve not yet had any sleep.

Too wired to crash, I instead spent a couple of hours and made it through one too many emails that have sat in my Inbox far too long. If any of you receive incoherent messages – Shawn – this is partly why. Please forgive my sloppiness.

If tired or sad, I shop. I caved and went to IKEA to purchase the ektorp Slite Red armchair and the ektorp bromma Leaby Red ottoman. IKEA’s to deliver them on Monday, inshallah.

After everything I wrote about that shade of red, I caved. I’ve been looking everywhere and have been incapable of finding anything that was as cozy and comfortable as that chair. I’ll eventually buy different coloured slip covers, but I’ll just have to accept that my daughter may be a wh*re because I needed to shop today and so purchased that shade of red.

As I walked through the store, I discreetly used my brightest red lipstick and ran it across all of the walls to my left (kind of like a dog peeing on things to mark his/her territory). Much thanks to my capital idea and rouge, I didn't get lost and it took me under one hour to locate the items, purchase them and then make my way out of The IKEA Matrix where Children Of The Corn run wild and Sarah hangs out to eat Swedish meatballs.

I forgot to mention that off my list are the chandelier:



& art work for one of my walls:



I was originally contemplating purchasing one large tapestry and went everywhere searching for just the perfect item. There was nothing to be found until that photograph you see in the bottom right corner. It’s a photograph in warm sepias and the frame is a little rustic. I fell in love with this and stood in the store staring at it for a few minutes until a cute little old lady accidentally ran into me with her face.

I purchased it immediately and thought how small it was to place on my relatively large wall, and so decided to give the wall an overall theme of trees and landscapes. Everything fell into place that very day and I found the one painting on the left and the other photograph at the top right (behind the mist of that photo is a castle).