Hello friends it's Allison I hope you're having a happy day so far so today we're
gonna have fun we're going shopping we're gonna pop over to two of my
favorite stores IKEA and Trader Joe's so I'm going to Ikea I haven't been in so
long so I'm really excited to see what new things they have and just get lots
of home inspiration but what kind of sparked my trip to Ikea was that I need
to get a frame for this piece of art that I got for Urban Outfitters
it's this really script quote print that says you make me a better me I love it
so I'm just gonna get like a plain white frame I pretty much get all my frames
from Ikea so like all of those that we have hanging up there from there or from
Ikea so it's just an easy place to grab simple and affordable frames and then I
also have these macrame plant hangers I have three of them in total but I'll
probably end up just using two but I want to check out my kids plant section
to see if they have any cute plants that will fit in here and then I can kind of
hang them in a corner of our apartment now that all of our Christmas decor is
gone third party looks so sad and plain but I'm not gonna go crazy because I got
more saving for a house and you didn't know so I want to kind of save our
furniture budget for when we purchase a house and then I'll go crazy so that's
the plan and then after that we're gonna hop over to Trader Joe's because I need
lots and lots of groceries we just got home from traveling for Christmas break
so our fridge is looking very very bare so we're gonna grab a lots of yummy food
and it's gonna be a fun time this is my super super casual and comfy outfit of
the day I have my Mickey sweatshirt from boohoo it's so cozy and it's pretty
chilly outside so I'll be nice and warm and then I have these little hoops in
from urban they came in a set of three but I really like them they are starting
to like turn green now cuz they're cheap but it
okay I like them and then I'm wearing these black jeans from Express and these
little slide on loafers from Express as well
almost lunchtime and it's so attempted to get something here because I'm so
hungry look that's only 99 cents I can't believe that and then the kids waffles
are so precious $1.99 cute little heart shapes and love it I really really love
these goals and they're on sale for $1.99 you don't really need new polls
right now so I'm gonna hold off on it but I thought they were like you I love
these little apartment mock-ups so much this couch is pretty cute I definitely
want a white couch when we move into our home
also this whole fireplace setup is definitely my vibe I want to do
something similar to this when we purchase our home kind of like a
fireplace DIY because in Florida most homes do not come with a fireplace
unless they're kind of old so we're gonna have to DIY a little makeshift
built-in fireplace
they feel like I am glowing with happiness right now I just love home
stuff so much IKEA I feel like I have good memories that I kid to because they
used to come all the time with my mom growing up and I love to redoing my room
and all that so like for my birthdays and stuff shooting in IKEA it's a good
time I really like these organizers up here I'm gonna have to look for them
once I am at downstairs also this little plant hanger is really fun it would be
cool to kind of do an herb garden in here in your kitchen just put like
different or plants and then it's super easy access when you're cooking this
chair is so dreamy and would be so cute for like an outdoor patio so boho and so
fun oh my goodness guys look at this bathroom
I am in love seriously so cute mainly the bathtub I just dream of a bathtub
like that also I love that someone put a little stuffed animal shark in there so
funny
these plants and it seriously has never died and you can neglect it and it'll
never die like I almost thought it was fake but it's real so if you don't
really have a green thumb this is a great plant for you okay just got back
in the car and I ended up spending $77 of goodies so I'm excited to show you
guys all the things I picked up but now we got to run to Trader Joe's I'm
starting to get so hungry it's noon now so make it a little snack there but they
always have samples and coffees so that'll tide me over until we go home
just got back in my car from Trader Joe's and I have to say I just had the
most beautiful Trader Joe's experience of my life it was so happy I walk in in
one of the workers is just like so smiley and just beaming and he's like
Happy New Year how's it going just so welcoming and warm and I'm just walking
around picking out my groceries and whatnot and then I meet the sweetest
subscriber who watches my videos and she was just so kind and such an angel and
then I go to my car putting my groceries in my trunk and then someone who follows
me on Instagram Hanna she stops and she just is so sweet
and saying all these kind things and we got to talk for a little bit and it was
just the best and then I'm and then she drives away
and then I'm putting my stuff in my car and then this mom and daughter the mom
is just like the cutest ever and she's just like oh look so beautiful I love
your outfit like I'm just wearing a hoodie like nothing fancy at all and
she's like you are looking so beautiful and she's just complimenting me and
complimenting the plant I got which I'll show you guys soon and
the loveliest ladies it was just the best like such a great time I am just I
I'm just happy that's just this is just the testimony that happiness and being
kind to other people is so incredibly contagious so taking time out of your
day to smile at people and compliment people really it goes a long long way
just got back up to my apartment I did stuff for Starbucks let me show you guys
what I got so what I'm gonna do is I have a meeting in like 55 minutes so I
don't know how I'll have time to do the IKEA haul but I'm gonna do that Trader
Joe's haul real quick make some lunch and then do the IKEA haul and for the
Trader Joe's haul I'm just gonna do like an overview and then highlight anything
worth noting but at Starbucks I just got a nice coffee with some of the sweet
cream foam I don't know if it's phone there's some of this vanilla sweet cream
on top it's so good it's the cream that makes it so yummy so good pick me up but
I am super super hungry usually I would be really hangry but everyone has been
so kind to me today so I'm happy but yeah I need to eat especially before my
meeting so that I'm not like my stomach isn't growling and everyone hears it all
so it literally took me three trips to from my car to my apartment to get
everything up here I really just had a field day I chewed her Joe's an Ikea I
bought way more than I expected but I just love both of those places so much
this is all my Trader Joe's loot seriously it's so many goodness so I'm
not going to Walmart this week that's where I usually do my grocery shopping
but I was just kind of near Trader Joe's so I figured I would go there and we had
gift cards which was amazing okay so I got kombucha I got three different
flavors I got the cosmic cranberry strawberry lemonade and trilogy I still
have the scope II to make my own homemade kombucha in my cabinet I just
haven't been brave enough to do it yet so uh hopefully I'll do that soon I just
have to build up the courage I think my sister will do it with me so I need like
a buddy to do it with me so I'm not alone okay
and then I got organic acai I love love love they're also eat packets because
they're unsweetened and it's just plain aw cyi it's so good for our bowls that
we make and just like lots of produce green beans spinach my favorite cheese
from Trader Joe's the unexpected cheddar cheese brain tonight love it
and I also got some parmesan for a pasta that I'm gonna make later in the week
and then I also grabbed this mod Ross lentils that Indian fare and I think I'm
gonna eat this right now after I found this little haul because I'm again very
hungry and that's just like I was super quick and easy lunch so I grabs that and
then we love the pepitas salsa it's really spicy and different and unique so
I grabbed that cuz we need some salsa also these teeny tiny avocados that's
literally what they're called it's so precious they're not ripe yet so I
grabbed like a ripe avocado as well sweet potatoes I love love love sweet
potatoes and then I also grabbed this beautiful beautiful succulent it's
really nice size and it was $7.99 I didn't came with a pot and everything so
I think this might look cute in the other planter cuz at IKEA I only ended
up getting one plant so Trader Joe's came through with the other one and then
I got some bread and some capers that I also put in my pasta that I'm gonna make
later in the week and then I got this garlic naan bread that's seriously so
good and it's part of a recipe that I'm going to make
for my first ever Alison's eats so can't me to show you guys that
and then really splurged on the crackers usually we get like a whole grain like
the cracker or something but I just went with the golden rounds that are like
Ritz crackers for our cheese's and oh my goodness these are just heavenly
and then peppers pita chips garbanzo beans I'm always eating garbanzo beans
and putting them in my airfryer or cooking them on a skillet to make them
crispy so delicious and then eggs and finish the masala is that what it is
it's an Indian fare doesn't look the best it just looks like chili basically
but it smells so heavenly and I'm gonna give it a taste it was so easy to make I
just had to heat it up for one minute in the little pouch and then just pour it
in a bowl so really nice if you have work you can just pop it in your
backpack for a quick little lunch at work so I used to do stuff like that all
the time mmm super yummy I love this kind of thing it's super hearty I'm good
I think I'm gonna finish it all cuz I'm still hungry but yeah this would be so
perfect to pop in your backpack for work or even for school and college you just
need a microwave so if I microwave in college at work you can just heat it up
we're in a cup in a bowl super easy and quick lunch okay friends I just finished
my meeting so finally it's time for our little IKEA haul actually pretty fair
sized haul it's not so little anymore once I got in there I saw a lot of
things I like okay so mmm what should we start out with well first and foremost I
got my frame I needed for my print so we'll put that together after I finished
showing you everything but I think it should work and there wasn't a size that
was the exact measurements but this one's super close because the poster
is 13 by 19 inches and this one is 16 by 20 inches so I hope it doesn't look
silly I think it'll be okay there's not like a white gap
oh no yeah it'll be perfect see the little frame will just cover a little
bit of it but that'll look really good I still don't know where exactly am I put
it in our apartment um I might I'm thinking about taking out my letter
board over my desk because as much as I love pink that is like a lot of pink
with my chair and the letter board and since this is our living room
like I am means I am getting more drawn to more natural tones so it might switch
that out and give away my letter board but I'm not sure yet
okay I also got this beautiful pots which I found in the plant section and I
also got this beautiful plant it is called okay it's called at the pre Munem
upper premium but it's a devil's ivy I looked it up and it said it was really
great for an indoor space and it doesn't need too much attention which is really
really awesome and I do need to repot it because unfortunately it doesn't fit in
my pot it's too big so I have marbles or rocks under my sink so I'm gonna put the
rocks on the bottom so that I can drain because this pot doesn't have a draining
hole and then I'll just repot it so I'll take you guys through that real quick
cuz I'll do it after this haul okay and then I also grabbed these wooden hangers
so pretty they're just beautiful natural hangers and these were 4:49 I think they
were under five dollars and there's eight of them and I have a clothing rack
in my room where I like to keep like some of my newer pieces and I'm gonna do
a closet clean out videos soon and I want to read you that rack in reorganize
it because I have a lot of like Chris not Christmassy clothing but like
more wintry clothing pieces in fall clothing pieces so I just need to like
refresh that and I want to use these hangers on my clothing rack so that
they're all the same and they just look really nice and put together ok next up
I'm so excited about this this beautiful watering-pot so so nice I just love the
handle it is absolutely stunning and I don't have one yet I've just been using
like our little kettle or tea kettle so it's nice to kind of have a designated
watering tool for my plants which I love ok and then I picked up this magazine
that's just free but it's just their kitchen magazine just Burton's bow for
Brandon and I to look through and then I have to live so I have this cute little
mini IKEA bag that I got from a conference since the darlingest thing
I'm glad I got to use it the reason I used it today ok but I got the lids for
my container organizing we're gonna do an I've officially decided that we're
gonna do a fridge organization and we're gonna make a Pinterest seat bridge with
so many cute containers and I want to have staples that I always keep in my
fridge like cooked quinoa garbanzo beans um chopped carrots chopped onions like
all that good stuff so I'm excited to use these containers but I also love
glass containers and I love little tops that you can just pop off like this and
I just think they're very visually stunning as well and I got this
rectangle one the lid you buy these separately and then another one this
square one and I also got this mug it's just a plain glass mug I've been wanting
one of these for quite a while now especially when I make like layered
lattes and stuff it's really neat kind of see each layer and for my coffee
videos I thought this would be really sweet and you can kind of see everything
that's going on so I grabbed those and it was really inexpensive I want to say
like two dollars or something and then this was my last container this is the
biggest way I'm not exactly sure what I'm gonna put in here I don't know if
I'll keep it in my fridge or if I'll put flour in here or baking supplies um but
I just thought it was a really good size and I'll definitely find something to do
with it and something I would recommend if you are getting these containers and
you want to do like a little container organization system before you go out to
buy the containers I think it would have been really helpful if I listed
everything that I wanted to put in the containers cuz when I got to high key I
was kind of just like guessing well maybe these containers would be good for
the business or but if I was like in my fridge and pantry before I left for the
store I could like make a list of everything I needed containers for and
it would just be more helpful because I don't even know what I'm putting in
these I just liked that so hopefully that makes sense but yeah let's put our
plants and its new pot and put our art in our frame and enjoy our new door
hey friends that is it for today's video I hope you enjoyed shopping with me and
the halls and decorating with me I loved how all the little decor pieces I got
from Ikea turned out and I'm excited for the fridge clean-out organization video
and all the videos to come so be sure you're subscribed and please like this
video if you did enjoy it I love you guys so much and I'm so thankful for you
and I'll see you super soon bye