Got a new Ikea Messenger Bag

I have been over stuffing my old Ikea bag (left) lately with my regular sketching gear and extra materials for my summer classes to the point that I could not properly close it. Rather than seeing it explode one of these days, I decided to get a new vertical one (left) to balance the load more evenly. For the price, the Ikea bags provide excellent value and functionality as a lightweight sketching bag. I had hoped to get a few Ikea Gestalta reference manikins for my classes, but sadly they were out-of-stock. A nice dish of Swedish meatballs with steamed vegetables helped ease the disappointment, and fyi the other cafeteria offerings are pretty good too.