you'll never guess where I've been
Ta-daaa! Ikea! You're probably not at all surprised. I went there to get a few measurements and just generally look around to see if there was any new stuff that's not in my catalogue. I saw a chest of two drawers that I positively drooled over. Why? Because it was the exact shade of blue that I'd love to paint my current bookshelves. (I'm going back with paint charts to see if I can match it to a shade on them) This was the only furniture item I could see in the entire store that was this particular shade of blue. Everything else is white, birch, black, or black/brown. If they sold bookshelves in this particular shade, I'd buy them tomorrow and damn the cost! The real reason I was at Ikea? I was shopping for a 5 litre pot to make soup. You see, in my previous home, I had a very large pot. A 10 litre pot. With a pasta insert and a rice steamer insert. I rarely used the inserts, but the pot was on my stove every winter making gallons of soups a...