After Balenciaga released a large blue tote that looked shockingly similar to IKEA’s 99 cent Frakta bag earlier this year, dozens of blue bag hacks starting popping up around the Internet — each seemingly more ridiculous than the next. Here’s the “Swedish Stocking,” a ₤20 Christmas stocking handmade in the U.K. out of the iconic IKEA bag by the company Bootleg Baubles.

Publication: Cosmopolitan

Date: November 29, 2017

IKEA isn’t just great because it’s cheap, although we aren’t going to hate on a $250 eight-drawer dresser. The Swedish powerhouse really wriggled its way into our design-loving hearts because IKEA products are the heroes in those fraught moments when there seem to be no good solutions.

Publication: Architectural Digest

Date: November 29, 2017