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Blogmas 2024: Day 3 Decorating the Christmas Tree 🎄

Hi guys! 👋🏻

Here we are with day three of Blogmas 2024, and this one is a very festive one… putting up the Christmas tree.

This is a staple Blogmas post and I love snapping pictures of our lovely tree (Biased I know!) Plus there is nothing quite like a Christmas tree twinkling in your lounge to get you into the festive spirit.

Our Christmas tree colours are red, gold and green – very traditional. We also have some more personal ornaments, creations from my nephews and niece, sentimental ones from different years, and holidays etc.

I love getting all our decorations out each year and enjoying them and reminiscing whilst you hang them up. Me and my husband always decorate our main tree together.

Lets take a look!

The flat is feeling so festive and cosy now – I love it! Walking into the lounge just makes me smile (although it does take an age to turn all the different plugs on haha.)

Have you put your tree up yet? When do you traditionally do yours?

22 days to go.

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas 2024: Day 2 Advent Calendars

Hi guys! 👋🏻

Welcome to Blogmas Day Two. I thought we could kick it off with an advent (or many advents because apparently I have no self control) within an advent.

So, lets take a look at the different advent calendars that I have picked up for this fun, festive countdown.

Of course a chocolate advent calendar is a standard… my calendar of choice is of course a good old Cadbury Dairy Milk one. Delicious.

My lovely husband kindly bought me the Hotel Chocolat Hot Chocolate advent calendar. I may have dropped quite a few hints haha, but it was good all-round because he got it in a Black Friday deal, and he loves a bargain, so all’s well that ends well.

My twin sister very kindly made me a advent calendar, it cones with little Harry Potter themed boxes, one for each day, with little treats inside so I’m looking forward to opening that!

I also have my Harry Potter pop up advent calendar. I bought me and my twin sister one of these a few years ago and the cool thing is that each year you can reuse it! You never remember what each mini decoration you are going to get each day as you packed it up a year ago! Its a really beautiful advent calendar and such a cool idea.

and finally, I picked up a couple of mini advent calendars at a Christmas market that I went to. These are s sweet and I thought these would be fun to include too. One is a mini pop up advent calendar and one is a mini picture advent calendar.

I’m super luck to have these fun things to open each day just to add to the festivitiy.

What sort of advent calendar do you have?

Only 23 days to go!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas 2024! Day One 🎄

Hi guys! 👋🏻

It’s that time of year guys, December has arrived and with it another month of festive blog posts – BLOGMAS 2024 IS HERE!!

For those of you who haven’t heard of ‘Blogmas’ before, its basically a blog post a day, every day, leading up to Christmas day. An advent of blog posts if you will. Very fun.

This is my 9th year of taking part in Blogmas and I am very much looking forward to sharing some of my festive plans with you, as well as some fun gift ideas, recipes and of course BOOKS.

So, if like me you love Christmas and all things Christmassy then stick around 🙂

24 days until Christmas – Let the countdown begin.

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Halloween fun! 👻🦇

Hi guys 👋🏻

I love Halloween! So I thought I would share with any of my fellow Halloween fans out there, what I’ve been up to this spooky season!

Let’s take a look…

Decorating!
Pumpkin picking!
Halloween nails!
Pumpkin carving!
Halloween film night!
Spooky reads 📚

What have you been up to this Spooky Season?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Halloween ‘Boo baskets’ for kids 🎃

Hi guys 👋🏻🦇

October is here and that can mean only one thing!!

Halloween 🎃

I love a bit of Halloween, mainly because bats are my favourite animals, and it’s their time to shine, but also because I love a good horror film and I just love the spooky, autumn aesthetic.

Each year, I make a little Halloween hamper of sorts for my Nephews and Niece, and since the whole ‘Boo basket’ trend is going around, I thought I’d do my kids’ take on one…

Here they are!

Ideas for fun things to include…

Firm favourites with kids at the moment… slime! And fidget poppers. Both of these are only a few pounds in Tesco.

A cute little Halloween themed teddy. One of my nephews loves spiders, so I’m sure he will love that. Then I got the cute little pumpkin for my nievlce and the cute little frankie for my other nephew.

Some fun little cups which I’m sure they’ll get lots of use out of!

I also like to get them something to do or something crafty. These little ‘Paint your own wooden characters’ Halloween themed, of course, are from Asda for 2 (each pack has 2 characters inside!)

And finally…

Some edible goodies!

What’s Halloween without a sugar overload 😅🤣

I picked up the good old classic Freddos from Tesco in a multipack, and the Halloween chocolate lollies are from Aldi.

Fingers crossed, they will enjoy these! Hopefully, this has given you some inspiration if you fancy putting one together, too.

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Favourite book of the month, 2024 edition

Hi guys 👋🏻

How is it already October!!!

Spooky season is upon us 🎃

I thought I would share my favourite book from each month so far this year. There have been so many good ones. And who knows, you might even find some inspiration in my list!

Here goes…

January

Title: The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide

Author: Chris Colfer

Genre: Fantasy (Children’s)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

February

Title: Remarkably Bright Creatures

Author: Shelby Van Pelt

Genre: Mystery

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

March

Title: Noone Saw A Thing

Author: Andrea Mara

Genre: Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

April

Title: Glutton

Author: Ed Gamble

Genre: Memoir

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

May

Title: Tattooist of Auschwitz

Author: Heather Morris

Genre: Historical Fiction

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

&

Title: The Inmate

Author: Freida McFadden

Genre: Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

June

Title: The Housemaid Series1.

1. The Housemaid

2. The Housemaid’s secret

3. The Housemaid is watching

Author: Freida McFadden

Genre: Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

July

Title: The Dead Zone

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Science Fiction Thriller

Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

&

Title: The Twins of Auschwitz

Author: Eva Mozes Kor

Genre: Historical, Autobiographical

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

August

Title: The Wilds

Author: Sarah Pearse

Genre: Mystery/Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

&

Title: The Perfect Son

Author: Freida McFadden

Genre: Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

September

Title: Behind Closed Doorz

Author: B A Paris

Genre: Thriller

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

What’s been the best book that you’ve read so far this year?

All recommendations welcome!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Book Recommendations 📚

Hi guys 👋🏻

Can you believe that we are actually halfway through the year!!?! Madness.

So far this year I have read ..

I’m hoping to get to 52 by the end of the year 🤞🏻

I thought I would chuck a few recommendations out there based on what I’ve read so far.

These are some of the books I have read, and I’ll give them a little rating out of 5 for you.

‘The Housemaid’ by Freida McFadden

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘The Housemaids Secret’ by Freida McFadden

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘The Housemaid is Watching’ by Freida McFadden

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘No One Saw a Thing’ by Andrea Mara

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

‘The Holiday Escape’ by Heidi Swain

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ by Heather Morris

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

‘The Inmate’ by Freida McFadden

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘The Trap’ by Catherine Ryan Howard

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

‘November 9th’ by Colleen Hoover

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

‘None of this is true’by Lisa Jewell
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’by Shelby Van Pelt

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

Have you read any of these?

If you do, let me know! & any recommendations always welcome.

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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A London day out ✨️

Hi guys 👋🏻

So at the beginning of June, we spent a weekend celebrating our anniversary! (See previous post) we decided to do something a bit different this year. We usually opt for a night’s stay somewhere, but instead, we planned a ‘touristy’ day out in one of our favourite cities, London.

Here’s what we got up to!

First up – The Tower of London

Next up – A boat on the Thames

Third stop – The London Eye

Next up – Some Sightseeing

Next up – Dinner

Our final stop – A Comedy Club

We had a lovely time! It was quite fun doing lots of touristy things that we hadn’t done before! These are some of the things I’ve wanted to do for ages but never got around to seeing.

These days out in London are great if you can grab a ‘London Day Out’ train ticket too! Much more affordable (only £20 each, bargain!)

What’s your favourite sight to see in London?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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June Highlights ✨️

Hi guys 👋🏻

Here are my June highlights…

Me, my twin sister and her family, my husband, and a couple of our friends went to the Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour in Watford. This place is BRILLIANT, a must for any Harry Potter fans, I love visiting there. They had the ‘Return to Azkaban’ event on celebrating 20 years of the 3rd film – it was an awesome day out, and great to see some new parts of the tour.
We celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary on the 11th of June. Tim bought me some beautiful flowers, and we went out for a lovely meal at one of our favourite Italian restaurants.
To celebrate our 8th Wedding Anniversary me and my husband spent a touristy day out together in London. We started off the day at the Tower of London, we then had a boat rode on the Thames, followed by  the London Eye, sightseeing, and a comedy show in the evening. It was a brilliant and super fun day out.
For Fathers Day, we went to Felixstowe for a day in the sunshine.
We had a nice walk along the prom and a go on the ferris wheel with Dad.
We enjoyed dinner at ours, a nice sunset walk and games with my mother in law.
We celebrated my Dad’s 70th birthday with a family meal, with the cake I made for dessert… followed by a day on the Mid Norfolk railway 🛤

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Birthday Fun 🎂🥳👯🏼‍♀️

Hi guys 👋🏻

A few weeks ago it was mine and my twin sisters’ 33rd birthday – woohoo! It actually fell on a Sunday which was the day we were actually born.

Here is how we spent our birthday weekend…

Saturday

We started off the Saturday with a delicious lunch at Revs. The sun was shining big time.

Me & Sarah (along with my husband Tim) met our friend Dan there.

Me & Sarah shared some delicious picky bits. The tater tots with garlic & chilli butter were INSANE. I was really impressed with all of the food and I’d love to go back.

We also had a bit of fun taking some photos in the photobooth ✌🏼

Once Tim and Dan had gone home me and Sarah went to Boom Battle Bar. We had a round of Mini Golf and did a spot of basketball on the machines. We each had a frozen cocktail each to round off the afternoon.

We picked up some smaller picky bits on our way home from town and ate those before having a nap (because, sun ☀️) and then went to the cinema. We watched ‘Fall Guy’ (with Tim too!) It was really good.

Sunday

Sunday was our actual birthday, so we decided to meet up for a nice brunch and do our usual present exchange together. We went to this lovely brunch spot along the waterfront – again, the sun was shining beautifully (we got very lucky with the weather!!)

Delicious!

Once we had eaten, our respective families got together at our Mum and Dad’s to open our presents from them.

Me & Sarah also got a little spontaneous birthday present for ourselves (pic below) 🙃

In the evening we enjoyed a nice family meal together with our older Sister, Mum, Dad, Brother in laws, Nephews, and Niece.

Here’s to year 34! Let’s see what it will bring 🎈⭐️

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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