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I'm Roseanne :) 33. Married to Tim ๐Ÿ’— I'm a Harry Potter fanatic โšก and a Bookworm ๐Ÿ“š I started this blog to document our wedding planning and its grown from there!

Blogmas Day Nine: My favourite Christmas films ๐Ÿ“ฝ๐ŸŽ„

Hi guys! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

16 days to go!

Deck the Halls

I only discovered this one about 2-3 years ago but it is BRILLIANT. Funny, festive, traditional and a little tacky (the perfect Christmas)

The Snowman

An absolute classic. Christmas isn’t Christmas without the snowman. Period.

Elf

‘SANTA!! I KNOW HIM’

I am the Elf! I am this enthusiastic at Christmas so I love this film.

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas

An ICONIC character (& portrayal) this is one of those classic and brilliantly quotable films. **Disclaimer: this is a prime example of giving a film a chance, I used to hate it because I never gave it a chance and now I love it.

Love Actually

How could you Alan!?! ๐Ÿ˜ข Still not over it.

Nativity!

It’s BRILLIANT. I think it’s even funnier because I work in a primary school ๐Ÿคฃ

Last Christmas

It being based around my fave Christmas song was always going to make this a winner but, it was also very sweet & very feel good.

What are your favourite Christmas films??

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas Day Eight: Mini Christmas Pudding Rice Crispy Cakes ๐Ÿซ

17 days to go!

Ingredients:

  • Rice Crispies
  • Milk Chocolate
  • White Chocolate
  • Christmas Sprinkles or icing pens

Method:

  1. Melt the milk chocolate slowly, 30 second increments, in the microwave or in a ban marie. I used 1 and a half large bars of Dairy Milk.
  2. Once it is fully melted tip in the rice crispies, gradually mixing to combine. Add as many as you can until they are all coated in the chocolate.
  3. Spoon into a empty cupcake tin and flatten the top.
  4. Refridgerate.
  5. Once hardened, carefully use a knife to pop them out. Place them flat side down on a plate.
  6. Carefully melt the white chocolate. I used 2 medium Milkybars
  7. Drizzle over the top and allow it to drip down the sides a little.
  8. Decorate to look like a piece of Holly on top.
  9. Pop back into the fridge so that the white chocolate hardens
  10. Enjoy!

1.5 Large bars of Dairy Milk and Rice Crispies combined made roughly 10.

What do you like to bake at Christmas?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas Day Seven: Decorating our tree ๐ŸŽ„

18 days to go!

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

I hope you are enjoying the Christmas build up and feeling suitably festive.

One of my favourite things to do to make me feel super festive is decorate the tree and we were finally able to put ours up this weekend.

I do most of the festive decorating around the flat but we always decorate the main tree together.

We have a traditonal colour scheme of Red, Gold & Green.

Lets take a look!

Until Next,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas Day Six: My top 5 festive reads ๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“š

19 Days to go!

I LOVE festive, Christmas books.

Here are my top five favourite Christmas books.

1. ‘Mince Pies and Mistletoe at the Christmas Market’ By Heidi Swain

2. ‘Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair’ By Heido Swain

3. ‘Finding Love at the Christmas Market’ By Jo Thomas

4. ‘Coming Home to Glendale Hall’ By Victoria Walters

5. ‘I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday’ By Milly Johnson

Have you read any of these??

What did you think?

Any more Festive book recommendations are welcome ๐Ÿ˜Š

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas Day Five: My Harry Potter Tree โšก๐ŸŽ„

20 Days to go!

Here is my Harry Potter Christmas tree.

Enjoy!

There is a mixture of ornaments of all the different Hogwarts Houses, with the main theme being Gryffindor.

Gryffindor is my favourite Hogwarts house so I have the Gryffindor bow ribbons? extra Gryffindor ornaments and extra red and gold baubles.

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas Day Four: Our Work Christmas Party ๐Ÿฅ‚

21 Days to go!

On Friday we had our work Christmas party.

We booked this during the last school year so that we had something to look forward to!!

And it was a great night!

The theme of the evening was ‘Great Gatsby’ so they had lots of Flapper, dancing performers, a Singer, Acrobats and Fire Eaters.

They performed inbetween the different course.

The three course meal was really delicious. I wasn’t keen on the desserts but my Starter and Main were great.

My Starter.

This buttermilk chicken was delicious. It came with mini tortillas and homemade coleslaw.

My main course was the Vegetarian Wellington.

The Vegetarian Wellington was so tasty. It had layers of Veleriac, Sweet Potato, Mushroom and Pepper in a golden pastry case. The veggies (especially the carrots) and potatoes were great too.

We had such a fun night!

Great friends, good food, drinks, pretend roulette, shots… dancing, more shots ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿฅ‚

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas Day Three: Festive Reads ๐Ÿ“š

22 days to go!

Because the only thing better than cosy, Christmas, snowy vibes… is thise things in a book!!!

So, here are some Christmas books to get that festive cheer flowing.

Heidi Swain

I LOVE Heidi Swain’s Christmas books the most. Is it even Christmas without a trip to one of her magical

‘Mince Pies and Mistletoe at the Chrisas Market’

‘Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair’

‘Snowflakes and Cinnamon Swirls at the Winter Wonderland’

‘The Winter Garden’

‘Underneath the Christmas Tree’

Sarah Morgan

‘The Christmas Escape’

‘One More for Christmas’

‘The Christmas Sisters’

Jo Thomas

Finding Love at the Christmas Market

Milly Johnson

‘I wish it could be Christmas everyday’

Victoria Walters

‘Coming Home to Glendale Hall’

‘Hopeful Hearts at Glendale Hall’

Karen Swan

‘Together by Christmas’

‘Midnight in the Snow’

Lizzie Lane

‘A Christmas Wish’

and some thrillers if you like something a bit darker…

Trish Harnetiaux

‘The Secret Santa’

Alex Pine

‘The Christmas Killer’

Tammy Cohen

‘Dying for Christmas’

Have you read any of these??

Any other recommendations, let me know!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas Day Two: Advent Calendars ๐ŸŽ„

Day Two: Advent Calendars… Because who doesn’t love an advent calendar!?

So, here are mine!

This was only ยฃ4 (reduced from ยฃ8) in Primark.

How cute is it!?!

It has little pouches for you to add your own treats. I picked up little chocolate rectangles, from Wilko, for me and my husband.

They fit in nice and snuggly.

And number two…

It is a Harry Potter Pop Up Calendar.

I found this in my favourite local book shop – in town. Isn’t it amazing ๐Ÿ˜

You’re sensing the theme now right…

If you’ve been around here before or know me you’ll know I’m HP mad – so yeah… they are both Harry Potter advent Calendars ๐Ÿคฃโšก

This was a bit pricey but so worth it. You get this beautiful pop up book and on the base are little doors to open.

Each door has a little hanging decoration to hang on the pop up tree.

It’s beautiful and reusable each year!! Amazing.

What advent calendar do you have?

23 days to go!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas 2021 ๐ŸŽ„

Hey guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

It’s that time of year again… yup, you guessed it… Blogmas is back!

If you are unfamilar with ‘Blogmas’ it is 25 posts in December, one for each day leading up to Christmas Day.

Lots of Festive Fun, Books, Ideas, Treats and just general Merryment!

So, come along for the journey!

I will be posting on…

Instagram: Roseannes Blog

Facebook: Roseanne’s blog

Twitter: @RoseannesBlog

25 days to go!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Autumn ๐Ÿ

๐•†๐•Ÿ๐•– ๐• ๐•— ๐•ž๐•ช ๐•—๐•’๐•ง๐• ๐•ฆ๐•ฃ๐•š๐•ฅ๐•– ๐•Š๐•–๐•’๐•ค๐• ๐•Ÿ๐•ค…

Enjoy!

๐“ค๐“ท๐“ฝ๐“ฒ๐“ต ๐“ท๐“ฎ๐”๐“ฝ ๐“ฝ๐“ฒ๐“ถ๐“ฎ,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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