The kitchen comes along.

We've also made some more kitchen improvements.

As enjoyable as giving my fingertips/fingernails a work out every time I opened up a kitchen drawer was, it was bound to come to an end. And it did. Several weeks ago. We now have handles. A very exciting development.



We also have a microwave! It's beautiful and has all kinds of features... like a re-circulating fan. That means we can stink up the place and cook some meat on the stove.



Here are the open-shelves we bought. We spent a lot of hours drooling over Metro shelving at the restaraunt supply store before coming to the realization that it was just too much for our little kitchen. But just when it seemed all hope was lost, we gave Elfa a second look. We are pretty pleased with how they turned out:



And Chad made this lamp. Dig the swag!