7. ‘Puss in boots: the last wish’ with Sarah & the boys. ☆☆☆
8. ‘Titanic 25th Anniversary edition’ in 4DX with Sarah ☆☆☆☆
9. ‘The Whale’ with Sarah ☆☆1/2
10. ‘Whats love got to do with it? UNLIMITED SCREENING with Tim ☆☆☆
March
11. ‘Aftersun’ with Tim ☆☆☆12. ‘Scream VI’ with Sarah & Charlotte ☆☆☆☆
April
13. ‘Mummies’ with Sarah & the boys ☆☆☆14. ‘The Super Mario Bros Movie’ IMAX with Tim & they boys ☆☆☆☆15. ‘Renfield’ with Tim ☆☆1/216. ‘Evil Dead Rise’ with Sarah ☆☆☆17. ‘Missing’ with Sarah ☆☆☆☆. 25
Till
Empire of Light
A Man Called Otto
Elemental
Love again
Guardian’s of the Galaxy: Vol 3
One Life
May
18. ‘The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ with Tim ☆☆☆☆19. ‘Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 3’ with Tim, Dan & Wes ☆☆☆☆20. ‘Book Club: The next chapter’ with Sarah ☆☆☆21. ‘Love Again’ with Sarah ☆☆☆☆
June
22. ‘Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse’ with Crash ☆☆.523. ‘The Boogeyman’ with Sarah & Demi ☆☆☆1/224. ‘National theatre live: Fleabag’ with Tim ☆☆☆☆25. ‘Greatest Days’ with Eloise ☆☆☆☆26. ‘The Little Mermaid’ With Tim ☆☆☆☆
July
27. ‘No Hard Feelings’ with Tim ☆☆☆
28. ‘The Tunnel of Summer: The exit of goodbyes’ with Tim ☆☆☆☆
29. Insidious: The Red Door with Sarah ☆☆☆30. Oppenheimer IMAX with Tim ☆☆☆☆
August
31. ‘Elemental’ with Sarah, Noah & Casey ☆☆☆☆32. ‘Barbie’ with Tim, Charlotte & Wes ☆☆☆☆33. ‘Haunted Mansion’ with Tim ☆☆☆ 34. Unlimited Screening: ‘Theatre Camp’ with Tim ☆☆☆
September
35. ‘Canterville Ghosts’ with Tim, Noah & Casey ☆☆☆.536. ‘The Nun 2’ me, myself & I ☆☆.5
October
37. ‘Saw 10’ with Sarah ☆☆38. DISNEY 100 (& FROZEN 10 YRS) Frozen with Charlotte & Evie ☆☆☆☆☆39. ‘Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie with Noah, Casey & Evie ☆☆☆40. ‘Trolls: Band together’ with Tim, Noah & Casey ☆☆41. ‘Five nights at Freddy’s’ with Sarah ☆☆☆.542. ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ with Sarah ☆☆☆☆
November
43. The Hunger Games: A Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes with Tim ☆☆☆☆☆44. Thanksgiving with Sarah & Charlotte ☆☆.5
December
45. Elf (20th anniversary screening) Me, myself & I ☆☆☆☆☆46. Teddy’s Christmas with Sarah, Noah & Casey. ☆☆☆47. Secret Screening…. with Sarah. (Next goal wins) ☆☆☆48. Napoleon with Tim ☆☆.549. One Life: UNLIMITED SCREENING with Sarah & Tim ☆☆☆☆.550. ‘What Happens Later’ with Sarah ☆☆51. Wonka with Casey ☆☆☆.552. ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ with Sarah ☆☆☆☆☆
I am so happy that I got to my target of 52 films, the equivalent of one a week, all year.
Chuffed with that!
Favourites…
Till
Empire of light
A Man named Otto
Love again
Elemental
One Man
Guardians of the galaxy: Vol 3
Here’s to 2024, and hopefully, another good year of cinema!
(Well it’s actually pretty much over as I write this haha)
I hope you’ve had a good one.
Thank you for coming along for this Blogmas journey of 2023! I can’t remember how many years I’ve done it for now (alot) but I have really enjoyed it again this year.
I finished off our Christmas Day dessert with a dark chocolate glaze and some festive sprinkles!
Fun with my Niece, giving her her Christmas Eve box and baking some festive CupcakesOur Christmas eve meet up tradition with our friend Demi. We went to a little cafe this year as our usual spot Byron closed down 🥲
Me and my sister watched ‘It’s a wonderful life’ at the cinema
One of my favourite traditions -In the evening, we drove around our local area and looked at the Christmas lights. We found loads of awesome ones.
I have my Nephews their Christmas Eve boxes, and they put out their bits for Santa and the Reindeer before bed!
We had a delicious picky dinner of a baked camembert with tiger bread 😍 whilst we watched the ‘Miranda Christmas Special’ on TV.
All that’s left to do when I get home is to put out my stocking and tuck into bed with my Christmas pyjamas!
That table in your kitchen or lounge that slowly gets filled with delicious Christmas nibbles throughout December, all ready to enjoy in and around the festive period.
It’s nice to have some festive nibbles around for any wrapping sessions, festive film nights, or if you have any guests pop over.
We have a nice mixture of sweet & savoury going on.
Let’s take a look at ours…
This is a new addition but we liked the look of this as I love chocolate and my husband loves sweets.
These are my favourite mince pies from the COOP.
Pringles are a must. These are mine and my husbands favourite flavours (Mine on the left, his on the right)
Heroes! The best of all the festive chocolate tins.
A tin of shortbread is a Christmas must have.
My Nana always had these at her house on Christmas day so I had to pick some up when I saw them.
A selection of festive chocs! Lindt originals alway look so festive.
It is mainly sweet goodies to be fair, haha, but we have savoury crisps and plenty of party food and cheese and biscuits to counteract the sweetness.
I also have keep my festive headbands/glasses/hats etc on here incase I need them or any guests need to be made more festive 🤣
Now that the Christmas holidays are in full swing and the kids are at home, I thought I would share with you a few fun, easy, and relatively quick recipes for little festive treats.
These ideas are so cute. I’ve either made them with my Nephews or made them with the children at work. Either way, they are lots of fun and great for keeping the kids occupied.
I’ve included links to help you with how to make them.
If you saw yesterday’s post it was all about my Harry Potter Christmas Tree! (Epic, I know)
So I thought it only right to also show you our main Christmas tree!
Here it is…
The colour scheme for our tree is very traditional, red, gold and green.
We have a basic, original set of baubles that my Mum got us when we moved in together (inc a star)…
And then we have a box of all of our specific baubles that we have collected, been gifted or made over the last 10 years (where did those 10 years go!!!)
I do love our little tree, and it looks lovely with the warm lights, red and gold tinsel and red star on top.
I do think that perhaps we will need to invest in a taller tree next year as it was getting hard to find free branches for all of our lovely baubles. We have added a few each year from various shops, creations from Nephews and Niece, picked up on holidays, and a new one from Mum each year.
I thought that I would share with you one of my favourite Christmas decorations …
My Harry Potter themed Christmas tree.
I themed the tree around the colours of my favourite Hogwarts house – Gryffindor.
First, I started off by wrapping the tree with red and gold tinsel.
Next, I added the hand tied Gryffindor ribbons.
Then, I arranged all of my different Harry Potter baubles.
I have quite a few now as Primark have done some lovely sets over the last few years.
I also picked up a few amazing Gryffindor themed decorations at the studio tour in Watford.
I predominantly place my red and gold Gryffindor baubles as well as my general Harry Potter baubles, around the front of the tree. The others go around the other side to even it out.
Finally, I add my tree topper!
This year, I went for my sorting hat. I do have a Harry Potter Hogwarts Crest topper, but I could not find it in our storage unit (sad times)
The Sorting Hat looks so effective up there, it makes a brilliant topper.
I am really happy with how the tree came out this year.
I do think that I need to have my coloured fairy lights on the tree next year, just to enhance it a little and make it stand out… especially as I have a set that are red, yellow, blue, and green, which are the Hogwarts house colours.
Top tip 1: If you’d like to do your own Harry Potter tree but you can’t find any baubles for sale, then you could do what I did the first year I had one… use your Harry Potter Memorabilia to deocarte your tree ie Hogwarts train tickets, Yule Ball programme etc
Top tip 2: Buy some baubles that are the colours you want to represent on your Harry Potter tree (ie Red & Gold for Gryffindor, Silver and Green for Slytherin) You could hang them as they are or decorate them yourself to make them themed baubles.
I thought I would share with you my festive nails for today’s post.
Having my nails done is one of my favourite things to do, and I especially love it at Christmas time. This year I managed to fit in two sets of Festive nails!! Let’s take a look…
This was my November set. I went for a simpler design using those classic festive colours, red and gold.
I love the accent nails and the combination of the super glittery gold and shimmery red.
My next set for December (that I got today!!) was super festive.
We went for a lovely nude base with adorable little festive nail art drawn on each one.
She did Candy Canes, a Christmas pudding, a Christmas tree, and holly. She finished them off with a sprinking of snow on each nail
They look so awesome, and after a super festive weekend and only 3 days of work left, I am feeling extra festive now!
So one of my favourite things about the festive period is all the times spent reading festive books and watching Christmas films.
I thought I would update you on which books and films I have read so far as well as what’s next on my list.
Let’s start with books!
I haven’t read as many as I would like at this point as I have been so busy, but I am hoping that once the holidays start, I can fit two more festive reads in.
So far I’ve read:
‘The Adventure of the Christmas pudding By Agatha Christie
Roseanne Byford 