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oh goody goody! i spent the entire afternoon from 12-5 at the local IKEA and we purchased our cabibets for our kitchen and a dishwasher. Yay! And I cannot believe that for 1,100- Euros we purchased a sink, faucet, dishwasher, and 3 lower doors, handles, and a wood top. Oh and a hood for our stove. That seems so expensive for a 180 cm kitchen area. And we are spending 550 Euro to have them come built it on Wednesday and another 90 Euro to pay this shipping company to bring it to us. And we didn't even buy over the sink cabinets since we're doing open shelving... IKEA didn't have the ones we wanted in stock. Grrrr. Kitchen design is SO not my thing. I hated the whole process to be honest, all the German words I didn't understand (though I have mastered the metric system now, yay!), all of the back and forth to IKEA over the past 5 weeks, I never want to design a kitchen again. Ever. Again. And I fear that the one I did design will arrive looking like rubbish because I really felt out of my league in IKEA ordering kitchen cabinets. So! Though the trip today was successful in one very large way (our kitchen will arrive on Wednesday so photos will follow), I really did not have fun planning it. :( My husband selected the oven from Amazon.de and the dishwasher from IKEA and I selected the cabinetry, hardware, counter top, sink, stove hood, etc. I just hope it all comes together as I feel a bit uninspired by the entire process. But on a very positive note, I found dishware and lots of cooking stuff there today, and all the frames and such that I've been looking for, so I can finally frame all of the art and prints that I brought over on the plane. YAY for that. I am tired of bare walls. Tomorrow I will go with my friend Enna to get my haircut for Berlin on Saturday (my lecture there on blogging, yay!), and I will also go looking for a cabinet for the left wall of the kitchen -- I'm looking for a vintage piece, they call them "grandma's kitchen cabinet" here. I want to find a really nice one with upper glass doors... I plan to paint it white (of course) and store food and such inside of it. Then I will go to an outdoor festival at a beautiful garden here and THEN I will blog a little on decor8 and most likely go out to dinner with friends and then go to bed early since I need to wake up for my train ride to Berlin on Saturday pretty early. On Sunday I am going with my other friend Petra to a fabric market (outdoor) with hopes to find some nice prints and patterns for future projects... Oh and I must look for a sewing machine now since tomorrow my dining table will arrive. YAY YAY YAY! Okay so that's my boring post for today. No photos, sorry... I wasn't feeling too inspired this morning with my camera and I was at IKEA all day and tonight at our friends house for dinner... But I'll be sure to take some photos next week for sure and share them here. And by the way... our night tables arrived today and we love them. They are from the 1950s. So cute. What a process this whole int'l relo thing has been. But it's a fun process! Oh and I did I tell you? I got my German passport last week. I was so excited when I signed it. :) I'm official here now. xo Holly