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Blogmas Day Nine: My favourite Christmas films 📽🎄

Hi guys! 👋🏻

16 days to go!

Deck the Halls

I only discovered this one about 2-3 years ago but it is BRILLIANT. Funny, festive, traditional and a little tacky (the perfect Christmas)

The Snowman

An absolute classic. Christmas isn’t Christmas without the snowman. Period.

Elf

‘SANTA!! I KNOW HIM’

I am the Elf! I am this enthusiastic at Christmas so I love this film.

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas

An ICONIC character (& portrayal) this is one of those classic and brilliantly quotable films. **Disclaimer: this is a prime example of giving a film a chance, I used to hate it because I never gave it a chance and now I love it.

Love Actually

How could you Alan!?! 😢 Still not over it.

Nativity!

It’s BRILLIANT. I think it’s even funnier because I work in a primary school 🤣

Last Christmas

It being based around my fave Christmas song was always going to make this a winner but, it was also very sweet & very feel good.

What are your favourite Christmas films??

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas Day Eight: Mini Christmas Pudding Rice Crispy Cakes 🍫

17 days to go!

Ingredients:

  • Rice Crispies
  • Milk Chocolate
  • White Chocolate
  • Christmas Sprinkles or icing pens

Method:

  1. Melt the milk chocolate slowly, 30 second increments, in the microwave or in a ban marie. I used 1 and a half large bars of Dairy Milk.
  2. Once it is fully melted tip in the rice crispies, gradually mixing to combine. Add as many as you can until they are all coated in the chocolate.
  3. Spoon into a empty cupcake tin and flatten the top.
  4. Refridgerate.
  5. Once hardened, carefully use a knife to pop them out. Place them flat side down on a plate.
  6. Carefully melt the white chocolate. I used 2 medium Milkybars
  7. Drizzle over the top and allow it to drip down the sides a little.
  8. Decorate to look like a piece of Holly on top.
  9. Pop back into the fridge so that the white chocolate hardens
  10. Enjoy!

1.5 Large bars of Dairy Milk and Rice Crispies combined made roughly 10.

What do you like to bake at Christmas?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas Day Seven: Decorating our tree 🎄

18 days to go!

Hi guys 👋🏻

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 🙂

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Blogmas Day Six: My top 5 festive reads 🎅🏻📚

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 😊

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 Three: Festive Reads 📚

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 🙂

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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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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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WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY

𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕄𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕝 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕙 𝔻𝕒𝕪

𝓣𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾.

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.

NHS Support

𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗼𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗸.

♡

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

JS

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