'Happiness can be found in the darkest of places if one remembers to turn on the light'
Hi guys 👋🏻
I LOVE watching Christmas films, and it is one of the best ways to get yourself into the festive spirit.
So, without further ado, here are my top 10 Christmas films…
What is your favourite Christmas film?
16 days to go!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
Welcome to another Blogmas post.
I love walking around, going into town, and just generally seeing lots of fairy lights and Christmas lights all around.
They look lovely, especially in the evening and they make me feel really festive.
So, here are some photos that I’ve taken out and about (so far!)
17 days until Christmas 🎅🏻
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
The decorating was in a few stages this year (mainly because I didn’t bring everything back from storage)
This was stage one of the decorating, which was mainly decorating the living room with lots of lights and positioning the trees (ready to decorate later!)
Here are the general decorations…
It’s starting to feel very festive 😃
What decorations are your favourites?
Mine are fairy lights.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
Welcome to Blogmas Day Five!
An absolutely classic Blogmas post is my top five Christmas songs…
So, here it is!
1. Last Christmas by Wham!
My ALL TIME favourite. The best Christmas song of all time.
2. Step into Christmas by Elton John
It’s a brilliant catchy and upbeat Christmas song. This one always puts me in a good mood.
3. Merry Christmas by Ed Sheeran and Elton John
This is a very recent Christmas song and usually I love the classics the best, however I really do think that this one is a brilliant catchy Christmas song for more recent times in particular, it reminds you to enjoy, appreciate and embrace this festive time of year with family (especially after 2020) and I love a bit of Ed Sheeran, boy can he write a tune!
4. Merry Christmas Everyone by Shakin’ Stevens
This is an absolute classic, and it really reminds me of my childhood. I used to listen to it at home and on the TV music channels (when they were a thing) and it was always on loads, just a classic Christmas song.
5. Christmas Dance by Darren Criss
Darren Criss is one of my favourite artists, and again, this is quite a recently released song, from his album ‘A Very Darren Crissmas’, and I love it. It’s SO catchy and feel good. It gets you up and moving and having fun.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
Welcome to Day Four of Blogmas!
And today I am going to show you which Advent Calendars I have this year. I’ve got a nice variety with a last minute addition.
Let’s take a look!
Up first, my chocolate advent calendar…
I got out my Harry Potter pocket advent calendar, this one you fill yourself.
I got me and my husband chocolate coins for each day.
It has 24 pockets, so I’ve put extra in for the 25th as I like yo have one for Christmas morning too.
Next up, I have my beautiful Pop up Harry Potter advent calendar. I bought this either last year or two years ago (I can’t remember)
It is so cool – and it’s great that you can refuse it!
I love the little decorations you get each day, to hang on the tree!
My final advent calendar is a F.R.I.E.N.D.S themed one. This was an unexpected one, but I couldn’t resist it. A bonus was that it was in a sale at my local bookshop, so it was a bargain.
This one comes with cool little F.R.I.E.N.D.S themed goodies such as decorations, bookmarks, puzzles (& I’m not sure what else yet!)
It’s fun to have a few different ones to open each morning!
What sort of advent calendar do you have?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
It’s that time of year again, yep – you guessed it… Blogmas time 🎄
It’s time to get festive and enjoy this wonderful spirit filled season.
And what better way than with 25 festive blog posts, throughout December!?!
What is Blogmas?
For each of the 25 days of advent, from December the First, leading up to Christmas Day, you post a festive themed blog post! This can be anything that you like, as long as the theme is Christmas!
What should I expect?
I do a variety of festive blog posts ranging from foodie recipes, my ‘favourites’, Christmas parties/events that I go to, Christmas traditions, decorations, and much more!
It’s a lot of festive fun and a great way to indulge in the festive season, picking up some ideas, tips, and tricks along the way.
So here we are! Day One of Blogmas.
Let’s do this!
& most importantly – enjoy.
24 days until Christmas!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys! 👋🏼
Today is World Book Day. I mean everyday is Book Day for me haha.
As I work in a Primary School Setting I do love this Day simply for sharing stories and excitement around books.
Plus, it’s good fun to make a costume and dress up. My favourite part is reading to the children throughout the day though.
What could you do this World Book Day?
Get crafty and make a bookmark for you and or the kids.
Just enjoy a bit of quiet reading time with a new book or a favourite of yours…
Read to the kids! This is my favourite part of world book day at work ❤️📚
Try something new? A new type of book, a new genre. I have recently been enjoying the Heartstopper Graphic Novels which is not a book format that I usually read.
Read your favourite book ♡
Unfortunately I won’t have time today but, going to a local bookshop and treating yourself to a new book would also be an awesome way to spend it too. Especially if the kids have their book token too!
This year I have reused my Stick Man costume as I put alot of effort into making this last year so I thought I would get one more year out of it!
Whatever you do, I hope you have been able to enjoy a book and share that joy with somebody…theres nothing better ♡
What did you do for World Book Day?
What costume did you wear?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏼
So – We are a week into a new year, 2023!
How did last year shape up?
Here is my 2022 ‘Resolutions’ Blog post…
My list of goals was as follows…
Which ones did I manage to achieve you ask?!
Well I have tried my very best, and most days thanks to my relatively active job, have done my 11,00 step goal.
I do drink a lot of water but keeping it as consistent as possible is key going forward.
What else? …
I think I have taken more photos with people this year and I was also really chuffed that I managed to keep up with my ‘1 second of the day’ video diary. 365 days of a second clip, all mashed together to represent my 2022. Its pretty cool
What’s next?
Now the next point is a great example of why going back to a post is useful (especially one of this nature) if I had I would have remembered my ’10 minutes of reading every day’, this might have spurred me on to read more this year.
10 pages is a manageable goal, so I will endeavour to take this forward (and hopefully be more successful) this year.
I think I will also instate a ‘reading time’ between 9-10pm in order to give myself some quiet, alone time and some much needed therapy in the form of a good novel (or 60)
Spending less time on my phone is 100% something I really want to work on (Tik Tok has a lot to answer!!) It’s not great, it’s so bad for accentuating my already distracted nature, and staring at my phone never makes my head and or eyes feel good either.
I also haven’t started wiring a book… maybe 2023 will be that Year, who knows!
Me and my husband Tim don’t really buy meat anymore on our weekly food shop. We chose ans cook lots of veggie alternatives and are also making a conscious effort with regard to dairy free products and better recycling practises and minimilising food wastage. I am actually really pleased with how well we have done this and how far we have come! I honestly never thought I would actually be able to do this beyond the odd ‘meat free Monday’.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am not turning full veggie and I usually eat meat if we go out or order in, but we have made a lot of great changes to our diets.
I have definitely managed to sleep a bit earlier some nights but this is very much a big thing that I need to work on and probably will be a constant battle for me. I don’t sleep ‘well’ alot of the time but I can sleep well so improving this with some of the above and a better routine may help.
The final one is ‘Pass my driving test’ which I am chuffed to say I did, last year. This is one of my best achievements and I am so happy I don’t have to do driving lessons anymore. It wasn’t easy but it was so worth it in the end.
How did you get on with any of your ‘goals’ or ‘resolutions’ from last year?
Have you set any new goals for 2023?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏼
Being the self professed Harry Potter fan that I am, I thought I would share with you guys the Harry Potter inspired gifts that I got for Christmas.
So, lets take a look!
I got three books this year. I got the illustrated version of the fifth Harry Potter book ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’. I have the others so this is a great (and a very beautiful) addition to the collection.
I also got a copy of ‘Fantastic Beasts and where to find them’ the original screenplay and the Autobiography of Tom Felton who played Draco Malfoy in the series, its called ‘Beyond the wand.’ I’m really looking forward to reading it.
I got a Harry Potter Lego set – this one is from the Chamber of Secrets film. This scene is when they are brewing the polyjuice potion and Hermione turns into a cat. This has some cool features like the changing characters and the limited edition 20th Anniversary gold Harry Potter minifigure.
I also got this ‘DIY Knight Bus Doorstop Kit’ I have no idea how I am going to make this haha but I will give it a go. I have a friend who is really good at knitting things so I may have to ask her for help.
I got this cute soup bowl from my Mum and Dad. It’s a lovely dark, midnight blue colour and is in the shape of a cauldron!
One of my friends got me this Harry Potter puzzle. The design is really nice and it incorporates all of the films, which is really cool.
I also got this really cool sock & mug set 😃
The final thing I got was this cosy Harry Potter throw. I can’t wait to snuggle up with this.
Great gifts, I’m very lucky!
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏼
So it’s finally here – Christmas Day!!
I hope you have a lovely day whatever you do.
I saw this idea online, so here is my ‘ideal Christmas day’
My ideal Christmas Day ❤️
6.00am – Open Stocking
8am Onwards – Get ready, prepare the breakfast pastrys
9am – Open Presents together at our home
10am onwards – Go and visit my Mum and Dad
11.30 onwards – Christmas Lunch at my father in laws
1pm – Christmas Dinner
2pm Onwards – Presents and relaxing
3pm – Kings Speech
4/5pm onwards – Games/Snacks/Cheeseboard
6pm – Seeing more of my Family in the evening, more present opening.
7pm – Buffet Tea
8pm – More Games and Christmas TV.
I hope you enjoyed your Christmas Day.
That’s it for Blogmas 2022! Thanks for all the support, likes and shares of my posts.
And to those who find it difficult at this time of year – I am thinking of you too and hoping that 2024 brings you health and happiness.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Roseanne Byford 