Last year I made the move from 2 separate Wordpress websites to 1 fabulous Drupal website. I haven't had any regrets so far. Drupal is just so awesome... Every day I work with Drupal I realize how great and powerful it really is.

Anyway... Last year I had been using my retro autumn color scheme for about 4,5 years. You can see those changes in my Miss Design portfolio changes post. Back then, Miss Design and Rosana's Blog were the same website.

In preparation of my plans to go back to college, I wanted a fresh and creative website. So I created the happy colored "Inspiration" Drupal theme:

Well, my portfolio and blog have separated and that's why I had to adjust the theme a little. But it ended up changing a lot. And that's the new theme! It's Inspiration 2011!

I hope you like it! I sure do. I like the changes in colors. These colors are warmer. Much better.

Oh and if it's all messed up for you, try refreshing (F5) the page, that should do the trick!

This is a teaser image. Click to see the full image together with a nice story!

This is a teaser image. Click to see the full image together with a nice story!

This is a teaser image. Click to see the full image together with a nice story!

This is a teaser image. Click to see the full image together with a nice story!

The new (Dutch) IKEA catalog came in today. I'm still sick so I was in the bedroom, on the bed, relaxing. I was happy to see the new catalog. I was sad to see some series and items disappear.

For example. I bought MIKAEL desks and add-on units in 2007 and 2008. They don't sell MIKAEL anymore. They replaced it with a new series called MICKE. It's definitely not the same. I'm not sure I would buy a MICKE desk if I didn't have a desk and needed one. This year, I wanted to replace one of my MIKAEL desks because it was broken. Lucky for me I decided to go with a completely different desk. Because the week I was looking online for a new solution, I found MICKE instead of MIKAEL. I ended up with a VIKA desk. So all is well.

Another example. HENSVIK baby furniture. They still have some items. But some other, older items are no longer being sold. I really wanted HENSVIK for our nursery, but we couldn't afford it, and we got a crib from someone else. So we never bought HENSVIK. I still like HENSVIK though. And I kind of promised myself I would buy a HENSVIK set when we had another baby, in the future. But now I won't be able to buy that HENSVIK dream nursery.

Third example. BARNSLIG. It's a series of children furniture, fabrics, toys and other items. They have been selling these since 2007 and the collection changed over the years, but now it seems most of the BARNSLIG series is gone. I'm glad I bought most of the series for Seth. He absolutely loves it. I don't really get why IKEA would remove a set from their collection without having a decent replacement set.

It seems the EXPEDIT and LACK series have been expanded with new items, but older items are also gone. I don't know what's up with that.

There are more items I will miss. But I do understand IKEA needs to update their collection from time to time. Although. Some items stay around for 20 years or so. I have one side table called HATTEN. It's been around for over 12 years at least. I'm sure. The first time I saw it in a magazine was when I was 14. I'm 26 now. Do the math.

This is the catalog cover. You can browse it online, if you want to. I couldn't find a US version yet. Maybe it's not being distributed yet. I don't know. The covers are usually different in many countries. This is the Dutch version.

This is a teaser image. Click to see the full image together with a nice story!

This is a teaser image. Click to see the full image together with a nice story!

This is a teaser image. Click to see the full image together with a nice story!