La tente de petit loup

 Parmi les nombreux trucs achetés à IKEA il y a quelques mois pour la maison, il y avait une tente pour petit loup, qui est maintenant montée dans sa chambre. Il ne peut pas vraiment l'utiliser pour faire du camping, mais elle est vite devenue son repaire secret, ou en tout cas son nouveau quartier-général. Il l'adore. Jusqu'ici, il n'a pas encore invité d'amis pour y jouer, mais j'imagine que ça ne saurait tarder.

Live from my IKEA Office at Home

You may remember that I blogged back in June about my wife ordering office furniture and at IKEA, so we could both work from home in proper office environments. Well, for weeks we struggled to make headways building them, we barely managed to build our two desks. As we were about to go on holiday, our friend (the mother of Blonde Tickler) offered to help and to build the stuff with her partner while we were away. We accepted, as we were getting desperate. So long story short, we got back yesterday and our friend did an amazing job with it and completely reorganised the house in the meantime. I was very impressed. So for the first time since working from home back in 2020, I have a proper desk and actually don't feel like I'm guerilla working. So yeah, it's cool.

Pandy the panda

As I mentioned yesterday, we received a big IKEA order. Lots of useful things and... this panda for Wolfie. He quickly named him Pandy, or Pandy Pandy, or Pandy Pand, or Pandy the panda. The name varies from time to time, but there's always Pandy in it. It cost £3.50, a bargain. Why a panda, do you ask? Because Wolfie has been asking us for a panda for months now. I have no idea how he gotthis idea from, but he finds them very cute and thus, has been asking for a plush panda. So now he has one for his ever growing menagerie.

IKEA Time

Because my wife is working again and working from home, we have decided to finally turn this house into a proper working environment. So she bought office furniture and other commodities at IKEA. Why not before? My fault entirely: I accomodated myself with guerilla working a bit too much. But now that we both work, we need a more suitable environment. So we received yesterday a lot of stuff from IKEA, which is now taking space in the living room. The delivery man told us it was the right time to buy: apparently prices are now reduced and they should go up come September. We started to build up one part of a desk, but got it wrong, so we will have to start again. I knew doing DIY was a pain, but the instructions for the stuff we have, they are properly sadistic. Rome wasn't built in one day and this applies to IKEA.

Lufsig for little Wolfie

I blogged recently that I was looking for a wolf plush toy for my son, in fact, that I was looking for this particular plush wolf, by IKEA, called Lufsig. Well, it didn't take me long in the end: I ordered it that very night and it arrived on Tuesday. So here he is, Lufsig the Big Bad Wolf, holding his snack (a grandma). He is not nearly as impressive in real life and not as big and stuffed as I thought, but he is cool all the same. The Big Bad Wolf for our little Wolfie. As long as Lufsig does not eat our son's grandmothers, he'll be a welcomed addition to his plush toys' menagerie. But even if he does, he can swallow them whole and you can open his tummy (there's even velcro).

Looking for the Big Bad Wolf

As I blogged before in French, I have been looking for a wolf plush toy for the little Wolfie baby who is coming soon. As I call our son little wolf and wolfie, making the wolf his totem animal (until he decides otherwise), it made sense for him to have a wolf plush toy. Well, after a good bit of online research, I found this big bad wolf from IKEA. This is SO perfect. He is the wolf of the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale, with the grandmother snack in his arms and everything. I was thinking if I was lucky to find a naturalistic looking wolf, not the Big Bad Wolf from the fairytales, which is truly what one wants for his child. Give it to a Swedish company to give to a new generation of children to discover this great baddie archetype. Apparently he is named Lufsig and parts of the money you spend on him is sent to charities. Now I don't know if Lufsig available in the UK, but now I know what I'm looking for.