'Happiness can be found in the darkest of places if one remembers to turn on the light'
18 days to go!
Hi guys ๐๐ป
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 ๐
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 ๐
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
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 ๐
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.
This buttermilk chicken was delicious. It came with mini tortillas and homemade coleslaw.
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 ๐คฃ๐ฌ๐ฅ
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
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 ๐
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 ๐คฃโก
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 ๐
Hey guys ๐๐ป
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 ๐
I Love Autumn & Halloween… here’s what we got up to !
We went out for the day, to a nearby farm!
It was brilliant.
There was SO much to do.. we made wands, got sorted into our Hogwarts house, had a spooky trailer ride, explored the spooky maze, picked and decorated pumpkins, pettee guinea pigs & rabbits, looked at loads of other animals and had a bug trailer ride.
A great family day out, themed really well and with lots of fun to be had.
We had a fun little family Halloween party at my sisters house.s
She set up some fun activities for them, we also had a buffet of party food, spooky tunes and Halloween pass the parcel.
Me & Tim always do a few Halloween traditions at home – these include carving a pumpkin (we’ve done one every year that we’ve been together) and I make us ‘Spooky Sausages’ which are meant to look like mummies.
I also like to watch horror films but Tim isn’t too keen on those so thats usually just me haha
Some of my favourites are Scream, Halloween, Hocus Pocus, Nightmare before Christmas and Nightmare on Elm St.
Our local cinema was showing some Halloween classics on Halloween.
Me and my Twin sister Sarah always watch horror films together so we went along and watched the original Scream! I can’t believe its the 25th Anniversay ๐ฑ
Scream is my favourite ‘Scary Movie’ and it was cool to watch it on the big screen.
What did you get up to this Halloween?
Do you have any traditions??
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
Part 2… its very late but ah well.
So, as I said, I thought I would start up the ‘Holiblog’ series for the Summer… turns out I didn’t do a very good job… because here we are, quite a few days into Autumn and I haven’t posted a Part Two: August…
So here is that part… not because anyone cares but because we did alot of fun stuff in August and it deserves its own part too.
Let’s take a look!
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Sleepover fun continued… off to the cinema we go!
Follower by a Nandos just me and Tim โก
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A yummy lunch with my friend Charlotte.
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Lunch and a catch up with my friend, by the Waterfront. Followed by a stroll into town.
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The final Youth Club Farewell ๐ฅ
The Youth Club that I went to as a teen and have volunteered at for over ten years is closing. It is really sad and the end of an era! The leaders who used to look after us are now our friends and we had some great times that we will treasure fondly.
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We celebrated our oldest friends (who we’ve known the longest, since we were 3!!) 30th Birthday.
We had some nibbles, drinks and a noce catch up.
I can’t believe we are all turning 30 ๐
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This was our Summer holiday this year and because of COVID we thought we would keep it local.
We went camping (for the first time!!) Staying at Waveney River Centre in Norfolk. It was nice and relaxing and a bit different. We had some nice meals, played games, went on walks in the sunshine, swam and met up with my Auntie and Cousin.
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Me & my twin sister had organised our bestfriends Hen and finally (thanks COVID!!) it happened.
And it was SO much fun! We started with an Escape Room, followed by lunch, an amazing, hilarious, tipsy Cocktail Masterclass, Dinner and more cocktails ๐ฅ
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We started off with fun at ‘YaYas House’ a stay and play play centre, which would of 100% been my dream as a child, with its themed rooms.
The boys came over for a sleepover – its so good to be able to do them again.
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Today, we celebrated my Aunties 70th birthday. It was a lovely family get-together.
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An excellent, if not a little, messy (and expensive) day starting with a yummy bottomless brunch. I work with great people.
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Celebrating the birthdays of my two fave little boys ๐ My Nephews.
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I got my husband Tim a Meerkat experience at our local zoo. This was part of his 30th birthday present. He loved it.
I hope you had a brilliant Summer!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne
Hi guys ๐๐ป
Disclaimer: (Its a bit late, sorry!)
Another half term has been and gone! How are we already half way through 2021!?!
It was a fun half term and the first one with more restrictions lifted, so I thought I would share what I got up to.
Let’s take a look!
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Saturday 29th May 2021
๐ฝ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐๐ช’๐ค ๐ฝ๐๐ฃ๐
Sunday 30th May 2021
โ๐๐๐, โ๐๐๐ & ๐พ๐๐๐๐ค
Monday 31st May 2021
‘๐๐ ๐๐๐๐’ ๐ป๐๐ช
Tuesday 1st June 2021
๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ฃ (๐๐ ๐ ๐ก๐ ๐) ๐จ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ช ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ค ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ฃ๐
Wednesday 2nd June 2021
๐ธ ๐๐๐ช ๐จ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ช๐ค ๐ & ๐๐ฆ๐ก๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ช ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ค
Thursday 3rd June 2021
๐๐๐ โ๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๐ค & โ๐ฆ๐๐ซ โ๐๐๐๐ฅ
Friday 4th June 2021
โ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ก ๐๐ช ๐๐๐ฃ๐ค๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฃ
Saturday 5th June 2021
๐น๐ฃ๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ค
Sunday 6th June 2021
How was your Half Term?
What did you get up to??
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
11.06.11
I thought I would do a little post to comemorate our anniversay.
I usually post a little something each year because, after all, our wedding is the reason I started this blog. I wanted to document the planning and experience of our wedding.
I can’t believe its been 5 years. It was a wonderful day.
The date is the same as our original anniversary as I really wanted to get married on our anniversary.
So, today also marks 10 years together and that is absolutely mad. How time flies.
Especially when you are having fun ๐
To my husband…
I wish I could put into words how wonderful you are, but my words would never do you justice.
From our 2011 trips to the Heathlands, Nights out, Uni Visits & Cinema dates to now, 2021 … having just come out of a year of doing none of those things because we are in the midst of a Pandemic (who’d have thought it aye)
Thanks for always making me laugh, for always taking care of me and for always dancing like a fool around the lounge with me.
Marrying you is one of the best choices I’ve ever made. You are my bestfriend.
10 years later and I still find myself thinking, Wow, soulmates really do exist.
the luckiest.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
Roseanne Byford 