I'm Obsessive!

For those that don't know me in real life you might be surprised to know that I'm obsessive!

Sometimes it pays off and I'm rewarded.

Today I got an email saying that 9 of these are coming my way! I only asked for 6 but I'll take 9!

Getting these has been a long road and you might ask why I would even want them! Well I brought 3 of them while visiting Katie in Australia.

When we moved here I realised I needed lots of lampshades as currently these sort of things reside in my house.

I made trip after trip to lighting shops but everything was either ugly or to expensive.

I begged Katie to take pity on me and make a trip to Ikea and bring me the lampshades I desired. She looked and sadly they were all sold out.

For a less obsessive person this would be the end of the story!

I looked and looked at Ikea country sites all over the world seeing if they sold the shades I was looking for. I checked Scotland first thinking that Kath would be used of my obsessive tendencies and would give me a bit of grief but then would do it. Sadly you can't buy them in Scotland anymore - or Newcastle where Wayne has family.

Branching out I tried Sweden - the home of Ikea and where we have friends but no all gone there!

Then I concerntrated on the states thinking that surely a blogger friend of mine could be convinced that this little errand would be worth doing to make a little NZ girl very happy. But no luck there.

Finally as I was at the end of my search Wayne piped up try China - I have a workmate who is there getting married. So I did and Bejing was the only store to have them and lucky for me he managed to pop over and pick them up. I got an email this morning saying 10-15 days.

10-15 days until the ugly lampshades in my house will be banished (apart from the ones in the lounge as that is a whole new story!)