Category: Celebrations

Easter Chocolate Bark ๐Ÿซ๐ŸŒท๐Ÿฃ

Hi guys!

I’ve always enjoyed doing a few ‘baking’ recipes on here, every now and then, particularly at Easter time.

All that delicious Easter chocolate in the shops or that you may receive can be put to good use by yourself or your small people – it’s super easy and great fun too!

So what is Easter Bark you say? 

Well it’s shards of decorated chocolate.

And here’s how it’s done (by us anyway)

Ingredients

  • X2 large bars of Milk Chocolate
  • X2 large bars of white chocolate
  • Sprinkles
  • A selection of your favourite Easter chocolates to adorn

Recipe

Prep a baking tray with a lining of baking parchment, make sure it covers the sides of your baking tray a little too, not just the bottom.

Melt your different chocolates (we went for milk and white for the kids – dark would also be delicious) in separate bowls over water (or in the microwave)

When the chocolate that you wish to have as your base is ready (ours was milk), pour that into the baking sheet and spread out so it covers the bottom in an even layer. Don’t spread it too thin.

Drizzle over the other chocolate/s that you’ve melted (our white chocolate) either yourself or the children need a cocktail skewer to swirl the chocolate carefully to create the marbled effect.

Adorn with your sprinkles and chosen Easter Chocolate, trying to evenly distribute it throughout.

Pop into the fridge (or freezer if you are impatient like us!! ๐Ÿ˜‚)

Once it is fully solidified, break it up into shards and ENJOY!

Super easy, fun & delicious! Perfect for occupying the kids this Easter hols – my nephews and niece loved it (especially the eating part!)

Happy Easter Weekend

๐ŸŒท๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿชน๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฃ๐ŸŒท

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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February Highlights โœจ๏ธ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

Well, that month flew by, didn’t it!

Here are my February highlights…

We started back doing our Parkruns this month! Happy with my time of 34.01 – here’s to getting back to it again ๐Ÿ‘Ÿ

Me and my twin sister Sarah organised our bestfriends baby shower. It went really well and everyone had a great time! Lots of delicious food, fun games, presents and laughs ๐Ÿ‘ถ

Pancake day! One of the best days in Feb ๐Ÿฅž I managed to have two pancake meals, haha.

We celebrated Valentines Day this year with our traditional meal to a local Turksih restaurant. It was delicious as always.

As you may have see from my previous holiblog post, we went to Northern Italy for the Feb half term. It was brilliant. We did Verona, Lake Garda, Milan & Venice (again!)

We had a brilliant time, there was so much to see and it was beautiful. We were also mostly, pretty lucky with the weather.

Another great Italy adventure

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

What’s been your February Highlight?

โœจ๏ธ

Here’s to a good March!

๐ŸŒˆ

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas 2023 Day Twenty Three: What’s on my Christmas table? ๐ŸŽ„

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

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…

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 ๐Ÿคฃ

What are your favourite festive nibbles?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas 2023 Day Twenty One: My Christmas Day Bucket List ๐ŸŽ„โœ”๏ธ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

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…

My Christmas Day Bucket list

โ–ก Eat some Terry’s Chocolate Orange.

โ–ก Give out my Christmas presents .

โ–ก Eat Christmas dinner.

โ–ก Play some board games.

โ–ก Wear a Christmas Jumper.

โ–ก Open my Stocking.

โ–ก Wear fresh PJs on Christmas Day Night.

โ–ก Cook fresh Pan au Chocolat together in the morning, for breakfast.

โ–ก Watch the Festive Sleighride on TV.

โ–ก Christmas Day Buffet!

โ–ก Listen to Christmas music.

โ–ก Watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special.

โ–ก Cheese board!!

โ–ก A hug from my Nephews ans Niece.

What would be on yours?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas 2023 Day Twenty: Our Christmas Tree ๐ŸŽ„

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas 2023 Day Seventeen: Christmas book/film update ๐ŸŒŸ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

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:

  • Elf
  • Teddy’s Christmas
  • The Holiday
  • Falling for Christmas
  • Deck the Halls

NEXT ON MY LIST…

  • What happens later
  • The Santa Claus
  • The Grinch who stole Christmas
  • Love Actually
  • The Snowman

8 days until Christmas !!

Until Next Time

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas 2023 Day Sixteen: Work Xmas Meal #2 ๐ŸŽ„

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

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 ๐Ÿธ

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 ๐ŸŠ 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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas 2023 Day Fourteen: The Rock n Roll Panto ๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽถ

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

We started off this week with one of our favourite traditions for the Christmas period… the Rock N Roll Panto at our local theatre.

Me and my husband Tim go every year at Christmas. It’s always a fun night out. This is like our 11th year of going.

This years show was Dick Whittington and his cat, which was actually the first panto we ever saw there together. It had a completely different spin on the story this time.

The show was as brilliant as always, with some familiar faces in the cast, great humour, and an awesomely colourful set. The music ans song choices were really great too.

We had a great time together ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Have you been to a Panto before? Which one?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas 2023 Day Thirteen: Homemade Christmas Cards

Hi Guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

I always try and make some time to create some homemade Christmas cards, especially at Christmas.

I feel like this year has been a bit hectic! And time has run away with me a little towards the end of term, at work.

However, I have found the time (and thankfully some supplies from last year) to make a few cards for people.

I’ve gone for a couple of different themes from traditional colours to icy/snowy themed ones. I haven’t finished my cards for my immediate family & friends yet, but here is a little look at a few I’ve made to send off.

Have you ever had a go at making your own cards?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

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Blogmas 2023 Day Twelve: Bring a Board Night ๐Ÿดโœจ๏ธ๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿป

Hi guys ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

At the beginning of December me and a few of our friends got together for a little festive celebration, a ‘Friendmas’ celebration if you will.

It was great to be able to all get together as its often hard at the best of times, let alone at Christmas.

I suggested a fun little ‘Bring a Board’ night where everyone brings a themed board of food

We had a variety of sweet and savoury food.

I did two boards, a savoury festive crisp board and a sweet, hot chocolate station board.

Here are my boards:

My Crisps board.
My Hot chocolate board with my velvetiser.
My Hot chocolate board.

It was a fun night. We caught up, listened to some Christmas songs, and played some fun games.

Have you done a ‘board night’ before?

What do you and your friends do to celeb together?

Roseanne ๐Ÿ™‚

Until Next Time,

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