My dear friend Amy gave The Boss and I a gift card to Ikea for our wedding last year, and even though we had an Ikea close to us back on the east coast, we never visited the Swedish/now Dutch owned superstore together until we moved to L.A.

Last month, while getting settled into our new home, we took a trip out to the valley, to the Ikea in Burbank, and picked up this Kajsa Blad bedding set.

The duvet cover and two matching pillowcases were included in the set for $15, which is a giveaway in the world of bedding, and The Boss and I also picked up a fitted sheet and two more pillowcases in dark blue to complement the print.

I made a casual comment last week about looking for coasters to avoid cleaning our coffee tables all the time, and I had no idea it would get you all so excited about what cleaning product I had been using to get rid of those nasty condensation rings.

Well, here you have it, Readers: Bask in the glory of Multi Surface Pledge.

I’m not endorsed by the makers of this product, it just so happens that The Boss and I picked this stuff up from Target because we thought it would save us space and money — as opposed to buying three or four cleaners for various purposes that would just cause clutter in our cabinets.

This stuff retails for about $5, and is available virtually everywhere.

In an effort to curb the amount of furniture polish I’m forced to use in order to scrape the rings of condensation off our coffee table, I’d been hunting for coasters that would add a little character to our home — and that’s when I found this set of coasters from Jeff Claassen’s Etsy shop.

They’re from a collection called “The Chicken King” (please notice that the chicken on the coasters is in fact wearing a crown) and they come in a set of four. The top is made of plastic, and the bottom has a cork lining, but what I love most about them is that they don’t have eyeballs to look at me.