Hi guys 👋🏻
ONE WEEK UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!
I like to decorate and make my reading corner nice and cosy.
Let’s take a look!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Blogmas Day Eighteen: My Christmassy Reading corner 🎄
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Blogmas Day Thirteen: Chocolate Christmas trees 🍫🎄
12 days until Christmas! – 12!!! Where is the time going.
So, lets make sure that we are fully in the festive spirit with another tasty (& super easy) Christmas recipe.
I made these with my nephews and we had lots of fun.
🎄 Chocolate Christmas Trees 🎄
Ingredients:
- White Chocolate
- Mini Kinder bars
- Festive Sprinkles
- Magic Stars
- Green food colouring
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- Baking parchment
Method:
- Place a Kinder bar, vertical, at the bottom of your piece of parchment.
- Slowly melt your white chocolate, 30 second increments until it is all fully melted.
- Mix in some green food colouring.
- Mix until it forms a thick paste/dough.
- Roll out and cut into a triangle tree shape.
- Place the triangle on top of the Kinder bar leaving a bit sticking out the bottom as the stump.
- Leave to cool a little but don’t let it harden.
- Place a choc star on top and decorate with your festive sprinkles.
- Leave in the fridge to harden completely
- Enjoy!
Let me know how you get on if you give them a go!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Blogmas Day Twelve: My Christmas Bookcase 📚
Hi guys 👋🏻
13 days to go!
Last year, since I moved and ‘upgraded’ shall we say, my reading corner. Thanks to the pandemic I made more use of it and had more time.
Last year I found some cool pictures where people had made snowmen and reindeers using their books and bookcases.
Here is last years efforts…
This year I made a whole christmas tree, the length of my bookcase. This one was alot harder but it was fun to give it a go!
What do you think?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
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 🙂
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Spoon into a empty cupcake tin and flatten the top.
- Refridgerate.
- Once hardened, carefully use a knife to pop them out. Place them flat side down on a plate.
- Carefully melt the white chocolate. I used 2 medium Milkybars
- Drizzle over the top and allow it to drip down the sides a little.
- Decorate to look like a piece of Holly on top.
- Pop back into the fridge so that the white chocolate hardens
- 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 🙂
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 🙂
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 🙂
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 🙂
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 🙂
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 🙂
Roseanne Byford 