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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
22 days to go!
Because the only thing better than cosy, Christmas, snowy vibes… is thise things in a book!!!
So, here are some Christmas books to get that festive cheer flowing.
Heidi Swain
I LOVE Heidi Swain’s Christmas books the most. Is it even Christmas without a trip to one of her magical
‘Mince Pies and Mistletoe at the Chrisas Market’
‘Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at the Christmas Fair’
‘Snowflakes and Cinnamon Swirls at the Winter Wonderland’
‘The Winter Garden’
‘Underneath the Christmas Tree’
Sarah Morgan
‘The Christmas Escape’
‘One More for Christmas’
‘The Christmas Sisters’
Jo Thomas
Finding Love at the Christmas Market
Milly Johnson
‘I wish it could be Christmas everyday’
Victoria Walters
‘Coming Home to Glendale Hall’
‘Hopeful Hearts at Glendale Hall’
Karen Swan
‘Together by Christmas’
‘Midnight in the Snow’
Lizzie Lane
‘A Christmas Wish’
and some thrillers if you like something a bit darker…
Trish Harnetiaux
‘The Secret Santa’
Alex Pine
‘The Christmas Killer’
Tammy Cohen
‘Dying for Christmas’
Have you read any of these??
Any other recommendations, let me know!
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
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Enjoy!
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
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Five things I try to do:
Take time out for yourself, buy yourself a coffee, go for a nice walk, read a chapter of your book.
Don’t just say yes all of the time – sometimes its ok to say, no I actually don’t want/agree with that.
Take the time to indulge in your hobbies.
Even if someone annoys you – take a deep breath & kill them with kindness.
When you are feeling down and being unkind to yourself, think about how you would feel if someone treated your loved ones like that – it makes you sad doesn’t it?! – so don’t treat yourself like that.
if all else fails, talk to someone, anyone. You are not alone.
Stay.
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Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
JS
Roseanne Byford 