'Happiness can be found in the darkest of places if one remembers to turn on the light'
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)
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
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 🙂
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 🙂
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 🙂
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 🙂
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 😱
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 🙂
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 🙂
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 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
So, late last year I got an awesome glass cabinet for all of my Harry Potter Merch!
If you’ve been around here before (or you know me) you’ll know that I’m a massive Harry Potter fan.. ⚡
So this is very exciting!! Any Potterheads on here!?!
I will be doing a post on here, of my HP Cabinet once it’s as I want it, so keep your eyes peeled for that 👀
Let’s get into the haul…
There was a sale on Geek Gear and I just couldn’t resist buying a few new bits that I didn’t have.
I love that the items came packed in (what I assume is intentional) Weasley Wizard Wheezes coloured packaging 👌🏻
I can’t wait to add these to the cabinet.
The print is going up in our room, with our other ones.
And I’m going to keep my eyes peeled for more cool HP merch, because now I have a cabinet I can never have too much haha 🤣🤣
Have you guys got any cool HP Merch recommendations?
Or personal favourite pieces?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
So, this is my last post with the word Christmas in, honest!
Here is my book haul. I was very lucky to receive quite a few lovely books for Christmas this year, my ideal gift, so I thought I would share them with you.
It’s quite a mixed bag so let’s take a look…
I LOVE Ant & Dec, they are my absolute faves so I was super excited to receive this. This one I requested, so I hoped it was on it’s way. It’s really funny so far.
I had seen this one advertised and heard alot of great things (plus I love a cute, warm, festive story) so I was pleasantly suprised when my sister got me this. I’ve finished it and it was as lovely and heart warming as I’d have hoped. Perfect for Christmas & Blue January!
I can’t wait to start reading this. F.R.I.E.N.D.S is my ultimate fave TV show and my lovely friend bought me this for Christmas, knowing I love both books & friends. Definatly onto a winner with this one.
I discovered these in my local indie bookshop. They are absolutely beautiful. The covers are amazing 😍 I have wanted to add some classics to my collection for a while so I picked these out and my Mum and Dad gave them to me for Christmas.
If you’ve followed me for a while you’ll know that I’m a MASSIVE!!! Harry Potter fan, so I was super excited to add these to my collection. I had asked for the illustrated ‘Goblet of Fire’ but I wasn’t expecting the ‘Quidditch through the ages’ illustrated version… IT LOOKS AMAZING.
Did you get some books for Christmas?? How are they??
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Roseanne Byford 