036. Buy a dressing table and finish the guest room

After a day shopping in Westfield Stratford and a stay over in an Essex Travelodge it was time for a visit to IKEA to finally buy a dressing table and drawers. The time has come to finish the 'guest room' and get it looking pretty and organised, just like we did with the office last Christmas.
I settled on the perfect IKEA Hemnes dressing table and chest of 6 drawers to match. We have Hemnes living room furniture as well, it's one of the series that IKEA make that's solid wood and it's important for us to have long lasting as well as good looking furniture.
Unfortunately the Lakeside branch had sold out of the dressing table, but we did manage to get the all important chest of drawers. So much more about tidying the guest room is about replacing my broken drawers and organising all my things into a new set of drawers that it was more important we came away with those.
We also picked up an Ingolf chair to go with my dressing table (when we order it online) and a few other bits such as frames and three packs of the Skubb boxes for inside my new drawers.
When everything has arrived, been assembled and is looking perfectly tidy, I will share more pics! The above pics were taken in store today, I really love the fairy lights around the mirror! I think that might be a step to far.....

Yearly Review 01

I've had this blog and been completing missions from my 101 list for over a year now! So far I've completed just 14 of the tasks I set, but have 38 in progress - some of them could be complete very soon.

I have chosen to remove 8 tasks and replace them with new ones based on a yearly review I set myself. Here is the list of tasks I've removed:

024. Play Mario on the Wii once a week for 12 weeks (0/12)

028. Buy all the books I studied at school

045. Take 5 relaxing baths, complete with candles

056. Turn some of my photography into art pieces for my home

070. Collect 101 WDW postcards (8/101) [list]

072. Complete a full trip report for Florida 2009

088. Host a BBQ

093. Make a monthly meal plan and stick to it for 12 months (0/12)

Each of these counts as incomplete, so I will pledge £5 to charity for each of the above - so far a massive £40!

So far I've not replaced any of these, it's going to take me a few days to get some inspiration for what I want to achieve in 2012. For now I've just edited number 093 so I don't have to do it for 12 different months, just one month should be enough for that - who knows, the habit of meal planning might stick, that's the aim!

Let's hope by this time next year I've completed many more tasks and don't have to replace so many!