Pinky Meet!

This past weekend, I went to IKEA to meet up with a couple of other Pinky collectors. The Stoughton IKEA is relatively new, and the first IKEA ever in Massachusetts. I was excited to go because IKEA has very cheap efficiency lightbulbs! An odd thing to be excited about, you may think, BUT our lights are all ceiling lights, and they are really high. I so hate changing the lightbulbs, because I have to balance precariously on a footstool. So the less I have to change the lightbulbs, the better! Plus, how can you not have a warm fuzzy feeling about energy efficiency? (seriously!)

I'd never been to Stoughton, but apparently this particular area is the Land of the Giant Stores. There's a Costco, a Home Depot, a Christmas Tree Shoppe and of course the IKEA. All of which are larger than life. I wish I had a photo of driving in (or out) but I was too busy trying not to get lost and accidentally drive into the gardening section of the Home Depot or something. Plus all those big stores wouldn't fit into a single photo anyway.

But here's a picture of IKEA's entrance. I also got lost in the parking lot coming out - not because I couldn't remember where I parked (I carefully noted what section I was in, thank you very much) but because I couldn't figure out where the heck the staircase was. Fortunately IKEA had helpful traffic directors in their parking lot, one of whom set me straight. And also got *very* excited about the idea that they could put a sign up about the stairs. *VERY* excited. I think perhaps the poor thing had been breathing exhaust fumes a little too long...


Somehow the first department I got dumped into was the kids department, where I saw this adorable guy:

He's a cushion/beanbag chair! Fortunately I am too big and my apartment is too small, otherwise I might've ended up with one of these...

After some frantic lightbulb hunting/shopping, it was Pinky meet time in the cafe!




Jinx's glasses are even cuter in real life than they are in the photo. So delicate!


Apparently this bottle cap was verrrrry interesting, and needed to be closely watched...


My Arc explores the lovely and completely unnecessary mugs I was about to purchase:



On the way out, I saw this really cute hanging dragonfly light/mobile. Probably a good thing I was in a hurry to get out of there at that point, or I might've had to go back to buy one...