Time for a bit of an update...

Well, a couple of posts ago I was sick - with what we (even the doctor) suspected was gastro...  However, no - it was salmonella!  Thank you Sweden!  It has all settled down now and my tummy is getting itself right again and the tiredness is even abating a little finally...

Wednesday night SO and I started our date night, we work together and live together - and so sometimes things just feel a little same same all the time - I wanted to change things up a little.  It wasn't a huge or eventful evening, but it was a lovely one.  We went for a walk around the island where we live and then onto to dinner in a Lebanese restaurant (how did we get to be eating in a Lebanese restaurant living in Sweden for goodness sake?!).  It was lovely and relaxing and cosy and just plain nice.  (There are pics and I promise to share once I connect the camera to the computer!).

During the week I'd investigated a treat for us as well and we set off today to a spa to have a romantic duo massage, facial and soak in a jacuzzi - it was wonderful and then we floated home!!  We haven't gotten up to much more than that today, it has been a very chilled one.

I keep looking at my scrapping table and thinking that I need to be doing some - I just haven't had the mojo for a couple of weeks - hopefully it will find me tomorrow and I'll get to play for a while.  I'm inspired by all the work of other scrappers that I'm seeing regularly now when I'm catching up on the blog role, but sitting on the computer looking at them isn't getting any of my own scrapping done!!

Recent Scrapbooking efforts

It seemed time for me to show some of what I've been up to lately (apologies to those who know me on Facebook, this will all look familiar!)...  Yes, here is me - in all my double page anal retentive glory!

Pub lunch:

The view from up here:

Sacre Couer:

Notre Dame:

Features:

Inside and out:

And finally, sisters (from my very homesick day a couple of weeks ago):

I really should get around to getting Photoshop or PSE on my lovely little macbook, but I just haven't yet - so none of them are trimmed or put into a proper shape - apologies for that...

Scrapbookers question

Hi all,

Now that I have a few scrapbookers dropping by (hopefully) semi regularly - I have a question for you all...

In recent years, more and more it seems the 'fashion' for scrapbooking has been leaning towards single page layouts...  Being the anal retent that I am - I just have not been able to bring myself around to the single page - preferring the 'balance' of looking at double pages... 

I tend to scrap all (or at least most) of the photos I take (or certainly intend to - at some point!) there is nothing in 'other' album forms with plain photos for example...  I have also resisted (partly because of the double page OCD) the one photo to a layout trend (although it has happened where I have a lot of journalling on the 2nd page, or ephemera like invitations, tickets, etc) - even when I only have one photo of something I print it multiple times (usually in different sizes) to include...

Which way do you swing?  Or do you go both ways?  What determines which way you go with any particular layout?  Or does no one else agonise over this stuff like me..??

If you're a single page layout gal, how do you arrange your pages - do you worry about having similar papers or colours adjacent, or do you just pop things into the album in chronological (or some other order) not concerning yourself with the differences between each 'side'?

Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts!