happy happy joy joy

my dishes arrived safely today. they are the most hideously overpacked items i've ever seen come out of a ups store, but they are all safe and sound. load #1 is in the dishwasher, and everything for load #2 is set to go in as soon as #1 is done. i had forgotten how much i love this pattern. the individual pieces are a little smaller than the naturewood, but that's just fine with me. :) i'm pretty angry with that ups store for this overpacking job. i can only imagine how much my parents paid for all of this packing material. it's really quite insane. i can absolutely reuse the peanuts and some of the bubble wrap can be salvaged. some of it just got too shredded as i was trying to release its death grip from some of my dinnerware. the boxes are freaking ginormous but they are really nice boxes. hahahah