Category: harry potter

Blogmas Day Two: Advent Calendars 📅 🎄

Hi guys! 👋🏼

Blogmas Day Two is here, December is under way! So let’s talk Advent Calendars.

Mines varies from year to year and I am a bit partial to a regular chocolate calendar – that scrunchy metal sound as you pop through the foil to get to the chocolatey goodness is just nostalgic happiness.

As a younger child I did also have a Material Santa Advent Calendar with pockets that my Mum would fill and those kinds are super cute too and perfect for picking exactly what you want in it.

Last year I picked up my own Material Advent Calendar… and its not just any Calendar, no! It’s a Harry Potter one – Amazing.

Epic!

I love the little Hogwarts Letter Pouches with Hedwig at the top, it’s like he is delivering me a little festive treat everyday!

My husband very kindly bought me some Dairy Milk (the elite chocolate) Heroes (the elite tubs of chocolate) to go inside it, so it was nice to come home to see it filled with treats.

And now we have 25 days of waking up and eating chocolate firsr things- what a dream!

What Advent Calendar do you have?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

23 Days Until Christmas!

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Harry Potter Birthday Haul ⚡

Hey guys 👋🏻

So, its finally happened – I’m in my 30’s 🎈

It was our 31st Birthday earlier this month and I thought I would share with you some of the cool Harry Potter bits that I got given.

Let’s go!

Some of these recipes look super cool – I do love baking so fingers crossed I can do them justice. They will be fun to try nether the less.

These two items were on my list, from my husband. The Triwizard tournment top is really cool and understated and I love that you can choose your Hogwarts house (Gryffindor ofc) and get your name on the back.

The fourth HP film is one of my faves too.

I also loved this little Niffler badge, its so pretty and cool! Plus, Nifflers are adorable.

Have you seen the new Fantastic Beasts film?? It’s great!!

I also got this cool illustrated copy of the book ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’. I love these illustrated versions, they are such a cool item to add to my collection.

The illustrations are beautiful and I find them way more interesting to read than the originals now 😂

And finally, I got a really cool Hogwarts house towel. This is ideal for when I go swimming at my local pool.

Fun Fact: My Hogwarts House on Pottermore, last time I did the quiz, was Ravenclaw.

You can’t beat a little HP Haul!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas Day Twenty One: Harry Potter themed stocking fillers ⚡

4 days to go!!

Now that the holidays are here and its not long to go until the big day – here are some quick, fun and easy Harry Potter themed stocking filler ideas (great for kiddies & adults alike)

Tesco, £4.99
Funko Suprise boxes, Amazon £5
Assorted HP themed chocs, M&S from £3
Earring Bauble, Argos £9.99
Jewellery, Argos from £10
Assorted HP decorations, Primark from £1
HP Poppit, Claires £4.99
Assorted HP Socks, Primark
HP Dobble, Amazon £8.99
Colouring book, Amazon £7.99
A Harry Potter book! Available in most books shops – Also on Amazon! £7.99

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas Day Eleven: The Magical Music of Harry Potter ⚡🎶

Hi guys 👋🏻

13 days to go!

Yesterday me and my sister went to ‘The Magical Music of Harry Potter’ concert at our local theatre.

It was a 30th Birthday present from bavk in May but it felt very festive in the frosty evening – especially as they played alot of the festive/wintery music from the Harry Potter films.

The concert was performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chris Rankin, who played Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter films (Amazing!!!) A real life Weasley.

The music was very magical and just as awesome as it is in the films.

Chris offered lots of anecdotes from filming and behind the scenes. He was really charismatic and funny, AND a brilliant singer.

It was so good and perfect for any fellow Potterheads out there ⚡

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas Day Five: My Harry Potter Tree ⚡🎄

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 🙂

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Blogmas Day Two: Advent Calendars 🎄

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

So, here are mine!

This was only £4 (reduced from £8) 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 😍

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 🤣⚡

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 🙂

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Blogmas 2021 🎄

Hey guys 👋🏻

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 🙂

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Halloween Fun 🎃

I Love Autumn & Halloween… here’s what we got up to !

Spooky fun at the farm.

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.

With our Nephews 💙

A great family day out, themed really well and with lots of fun to be had.

A fanily Halloween party for the kiddies.

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.

Halloween at ours

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 😱

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 🙂

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3️⃣0️⃣ 🎉🎈

Hi guys 👋🏻

So, One week ago me and my twin sister turned 30!! The big 3 – 0 as they call it.

Here is how we celebrated!

Birthday Morning

I started off the day with a lovely breakfast in bed, made by my husband.

Followed by cards & pressies 🥰

At work I was spoiled with lovely birthday banners, balloons, presents, cards (from the childrem too) & an amazing cake!!!

Birthday Afternoon

Once I had finished work I met my twin sister for lunch at this cute little cafe.

As per restrictions, we took advantage of their lovely little courtyard, and the sunshine.

We enjoyed a delicious lunch and opened our presents to each other.

We then picked up our niece from nursery anfld met up with our husbands and my nephews for a nice little walk and a play in the park.

Birthday Evening

We spent the evening having a little afternoon tea garden party at my parents house.

We enjoyed the delicious treats from my birthday hamper, courtesy of my lovely work friends.

It was lovely to enjoy it with my mum, dad, and two sisters. We havn’t done something just us five, probably in years! It was really nice (& all of the food was delicious.

We had a really fun day!

Other celebrations included…

A tattoo!

Not something I ever thought I’d get…. so exciting!!!

Me and my twin sister talked about it last year but I wasn’t 100% sure I wouldn’t chicken out!

We both LOVE Harry Potter so we went for a simple lightening bolt design ⚡⚡

I love it.

I also enjoyed a fun games night with my friend to celebrate turning 30 (Very 2020) on Zoom, as well as a nice family BBQ meal and board game session the following weekend.

Lovely!

30’s pretty good so far ✌🏻

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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World Book Day 2021!

World Book Day snuck in just in time, before the first Lockdown last year, this year wasn’t to be… so, how does your lockdown World Book Day look??

It’s such a shame that we haven’t been able to fully immerse ourselves, as we usually would, at work but it was lovely seeing all the children sharing books, picking them out, listening to stories and writing.

I love watching children enjoying and getting involved with reading a book, it is one of my favourite parts of my job!

So, that was part of my lockdown World Book Day.

I’ve also been sharing a few of my book favourites over on my blogs Instagram (Roseannes Blog)

I also took the opportunity (via Skype 😥) to read my nephews a few stories for World Book Day

We read ‘I need a new bum’ and ‘The Dinosaur that pooped the past’ some silly & fun books!!

And of course I’m going to make sure that I do one of my most favourite things tonight… cosy down with a good book and just relax and enjoy it.

Whatever you are doing, I really hope that you are getting a moment to read a page or two of a book and you are able to forget about anything else that is happening, just for a moment, whilst you do.

Happy World Book Day Everybody!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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