We brought the defective Expedit bookcase piece back to IKEA, and the exchange was no problem! Also, my smooth-talking husband was able to talk them into giving us a $15 gift card for our troubles. That was very nice. I quickly blew that of course. It was not a drop in the bucket towards my purchase of two Alex drawer units. These were originally on my list of new furniture for my craft room, but I decided to take them off to lower the bill a little. However, I decided I would buy them eventually anyway, so what difference did it make if I got them now or later? They will be wonderful to put paper in. So excited to get organized!

After we left IKEA, we went over to the mall to get dinner and wander around a little. I stopped at Archiver’s and picked up the preservation supplies for my scrapbooks, some awesome paper, and a new book!

It’s The Doodle Formula by Adrienne Looman.

I was captured right away by the doodley goodness on the cover. Inside, it’s like a design class for doodling. The author presents some great principles about what makes a doodle attractive, tools for doodling, finding your “doodle personality”, ideas on making and using doodles…

It’s quite inspiring! The author insists that everyone can make great doodles, and that making doodles of that caliber do not require any special talents.