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Hi guys 👋🏻
Christmas eve is here!
The penultimate blog post of this year’s Blogmas!
Here’s what we got up to this Christmas Eve…
All that’s left to do when I get home is to put out my stocking and tuck into bed with my Christmas pyjamas!
Happy Christmas Eve 🎅🏻
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
So we all have a Christmas table, right?!?!
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…
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 🤣
What are your favourite festive nibbles?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
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.
Chocolate Reindeer Rolls Recipe
I have previously posted during Blogmas about this recipe.
Here’s the link to that days post:
Blogmas 2023 Day Three – Festibe Baking Blogmas 2023 Rice Crispy Christmas Puddings
& Rice Crispy Christmas Puds Recipe
These are my favourite of all the recipes!!
Hot Chocolate Snowman Jars Recipe
These are fun but would also make a great homemade gift.
Use whatever festive coloured icing/sprinkles that you wish to decorate them with.
3 days until Christmas!! Only 3!!!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
I thought I would do a bit of a different post, one I don’t think that I’ve done before, my Christmas Day Bucket List.
This is all of the things that I would like to happen/do on Christmas day!
Let’s take a look…
□ Eat some Terry’s Chocolate Orange.
□ Give out my Christmas presents .
□ Eat Christmas dinner.
□ Play some board games.
□ Wear a Christmas Jumper.
□ Open my Stocking.
□ Wear fresh PJs on Christmas Day Night.
□ Cook fresh Pan au Chocolat together in the morning, for breakfast.
□ Watch the Festive Sleighride on TV.
□ Christmas Day Buffet!
□ Listen to Christmas music.
□ Watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special.
□ Cheese board!!
□ A hug from my Nephews and Niece.
What would be on yours?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
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.
What themed do you have for your tree?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
Less than a week to go!!
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.
How do you decorate your tree?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
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!
All ready for Christmas!
Do you get Christmas thened nails done?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
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
&
‘That Festive Feeling’ By Heidi Swain
NEXT ON MY LIST…
‘The Christmas Book Club’ By Sarah Morgan
So far I’ve watched:
NEXT ON MY LIST…
8 days until Christmas !!
Until Next Time
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
Last night, I had my second work Christmas meal.
This time we went to Ask Italian.
I chose from the three course festivo menu.
I started with an Espresso Martini 🍸
Here’s what I went for…
Festive Sage meatballs. These were really tasty, soft, and delicious in the tomato sauce.
Festive Carbonara with Crispy Pancetta & Brussel Sprouts (Sounds weird, was amazing and a delicious way to serve sprouts!!)
Orange Panattone pudding with Ice cream 🍊 This was a really yummy mix between a sponge pudding and a Panattone. My only improvement would be that it needed more ice cream as it was quite a big pudding.
It was all really delicious. I particularly enjoyed the Carbonara.
We had a lovely time & it was good to have a chat not at work!
Have you had your work christmas meal yet?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
Welcome to another day of Blogmas and not just any day… It’s ten days until Christmas!!
So exciting.
I thought I would give you a little update on my advent calendars.
Check out Day Four here to see which calendars I have.
Let’s take a look…
The F.R.I.E.N.D.S advent calendar has been really fun with lots of cool little bits and bobs in it, including a bookmark, Central Perk coasters, Trivia, Christmas decorations and more!
I love this advent calendar. It’s so pretty and magical. I love the detail on it and the fact that it’s reusable.
I have lots of decorations on it so including a Golden Snitch, the Deathly Hallows Symbol, the Hogwarts house symbols, lots of magical creatures, and loads more.
That one is definitely my favourite, although I must say I am very much enjoying my morning chocolate coin from my third adventure calendar 😂
What advent calendar do you have?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Roseanne Byford 