veronica norris

here i am.

wearing ... my "vintage" 13 year old red patent pumps i bought in london ... thrilled i'm still getting compliments on them, because they still spark joy ;)

watching ... and laughing, crying and gasping through lots of tv season finales ... jane the virgin, nashville, new girl, madmen, modern family and survivor ... yes, sadly tv evokes all those emotions in me!! 

looking ... forward to some of the summer programming especially the canadian bachelorette 

obsessing ... over instagram and therefore ...

taking ... lots of pics to post more regularly 

eating ... breakfast cookies again!! (recipe here) and the strangest combo of radishes and peanut butter (thanks for the suggestion martha) ... it's addicting!!

listening ... to claudia's new EP hello, hello available on her website here, just click the iTunes tab under music

craving ... the chickpea salad at the Parlour

reading ... Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum ... i'm reserving judgment as i'm only on chapter 6 

decluttering ... almost complete thanks to the magic of asking if it "sparks joy" a la marie condo and a big thank you to jack ... who knew his hidden talent was being ruthless in regards to the sparking joy mantra ...

hearing ... lots of "just toss it out mom!!"

pinning ... lots of inspiration

hoping ... that renovating our house is on the near horizon??!!

loving ... the shubert choke cherry blooming in my front yard 

drinking ... gin and tonic ... feels like summer's just around the corner

trying ... some new classes at the gym

missing ... my trainer ... we'll see how long this working out on my own lasts!!

thinking ... about my summer bucket list

scanning ... childhood photos 

sorting ... new scrap supplies into colour categories ... you can see my scrap organization post here and suprisingly not that much has changed in almost 5 years ... a few tweaks here and there but overall the colour thing works for me

planning ... a mini anniversary get-away with my hubbie to celebrate 24 blissful(??) years june 1st!!

feeling ... like i've had a monumental shift in my outlook ... all for the good ... maybe it's the decluttering?!!

experimenting ... in the kitchen trying to recreate the siracha pesto i had at the Parlour ... yup, it's my new current favourite place ... 

what have you been up to?? 

v  

pocket page scrapbooking.

it's national scrapbooking day ... the superbowl of the scrapping world ... well sort of ;)

i thought i'd share a little pocket page scrapbooking project that i completed last week when my desk looked like this ...

pocket page scrapbooking is basically taking one of those old-fashioned slide-your-photos-into-albums and fancy-ing it up a bit ... this old album style has been made all new and trendy by becky higgins with her project life albums ... i have done a few of these projects like my december weekly one ... and i always think they are going to be easier and faster than traditional scrapbooking and that's not always the case for me ... and this album was one of those ... i started by limiting my product to several patterned papers, including some older teresa collins journal spot paper, in light pinks, and cream ... then i used primarily red accents including the red and white polka dot washi tape, red sticker hearts, words in black and red, and two black sticker sheet fonts 

 

i used this becky higgins album ...

next i chose the number of photos i'd be using and trimmed them down to size ... then i started working page by page adding journal spots, extra paper, journalling and embellishing ... this was not the right strategy ... so half-way through the album i switched gears and just started adding all the journalling spots and extra paper where it was needed throughout the album ... then i went back to add titles, journalling and the embellishments ... at that point things went faster ... here is the title page ...

 

and some of the other spreads ...

 

since there were some more personal experiences that claudia and i had on the drive to and from LA i wanted to capture those but didn't necessarily want them on display in the main album ... so i created 3 extra journal cards with washi tape tabs to place throughout the ablum ... they are like little love notes to her ...

i am so glad that i documented these two amazing adventures that we shared together ... and since i always create a page for my 12x12 albums anytime i create a mini-album here it is ...

if you're a scrapbooker hope you are having fun joining some of the other online fun for national scrapbooking day!!

happy scrapping ...

v