Focht Family Blog

My dad told me about IKEA a few months ago but I still had never been to one. When we came down to FL, my in-laws came with us for the first few days and we headed to one for the first time. We had so much fun we went back twice more while in Tampa. Once with my mom’s college roommate, Esther, and once with our friends Scott and Nancy that now live in FL during the winter.

During my first visit I just looked. The second visit I bought some plastic bowls for the kids, towels for the bathrooms, and some decor. When my grandfather Henry passed I received two African sculptures that I had put in my kitchen. However they were getting really wet so I bought some cool baskets that looked African to me and put the sculptures and baskets in my bathroom….

A bigger shot that shows my new black towel and the baskets…

One of the other things that I noticed at IKEA that I liked were some pictures of beach scenes that were in black and white. I realized that I had some great pictures from the beach in Pacifica, CA that were just as good so I bought four black frames and started picking out pictures to print out in black and white to decorate the bathroom with. I was going to stick with four pictures of the beach but then I decided to do all four seasons. Winter is a picture of a tree that is outside the Newmar office in Indiana. It has beautiful red berries on it and the branches are covered in ice. Spring is a picture of a flower in Helen, GA that was taken by my mom’s friend, Tom Nash. Summer is a picture of the beach in Pacifica, CA although Nathan is quick to tell me that the picture was taken in the winter. Fall was taken at Twin Lakes RV Park in Cumming, GA. Some of the pictures would probably look better in color but I wanted to stick with the black and white look….

A closer look of the pictures…