'Happiness can be found in the darkest of places if one remembers to turn on the light'
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…
What have you been up to this Spooky Season?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
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…
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.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
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…
Title: The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide
Author: Chris Colfer
Genre: Fantasy (Children’s)
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Author: Shelby Van Pelt
Genre: Mystery
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: Noone Saw A Thing
Author: Andrea Mara
Genre: Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: Glutton
Author: Ed Gamble
Genre: Memoir
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: Tattooist of Auschwitz
Author: Heather Morris
Genre: Historical Fiction
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
&
Title: The Inmate
Author: Freida McFadden
Genre: Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: The Housemaid Series1.
1. The Housemaid
2. The Housemaid’s secret
3. The Housemaid is watching
Author: Freida McFadden
Genre: Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Title: The Wilds
Author: Sarah Pearse
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
&
Title: The Perfect Son
Author: Freida McFadden
Genre: Thriller
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
Here are my July Highlights…
Lots of fun cinema trips! A Quiet Place Day One was a highlight for sure!
We celebrated my husbands 33rd birthday!
We had some birthday treats including listening to Rome Historian Mary Beard and A trip to the theatre to watch ‘Come from away’ both of which were brilliant.
We celebrated my nieces 7th birthday! 🎈🎀💜
Lots of book buying this month, which is also a highlight. My reading in general has also been great, and I managed to read 7 again this month!! (I’m sure that won’t last into the busy last part of the year 🤣)
Fun with my favourite two 😍
And a bit of pre season watching ✌🏼🚜
Roll on the Summer Hols ☀️
How was your July?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
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.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
Have you read any of these?
If you do, let me know! & any recommendations always welcome.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
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 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
Here are my June highlights…
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
It’s our 8 year wedding anniversary today! 💗💍
In August 2015, we started planning our wedding, and that is when I began ‘Roseanne’s blog’ to document our wedding planning & the big day!
So, heres a little look at our wonderful day 🥹
Some of my favourite things about our wedding day that we planned were:
•The venue – it was a converted barn that was beautiful, and we both fell in love with it the first time we visited. We just got this feeling that this was the place ♡ I loved the incorporation of all the old features of the barn in the venue, as well as the two separate rooms for the ceremony and reception. It was just perfect.
•The Colour scheme. My two favourite colours and I just love how they look together in all aspects from the flowers, centrepieces and decorations.
•The people involved in our day. It was so lovely spending the day with so many loved ones. We really enjoyed having some of our favourite people for both the bride & groom parties, that we chose together, as well as those doing the readings, photos/videos (which were family & friends) It all added to the day and made it so special.
•Our geeky touches that made the wedding ‘us’ from a Middle Earth wedding breakfast to Harry Potter wedding programs and a Honeydukes sweet shop at the Reception. I just loved adding all these little personal details to our day.
•Our Italian inspired food (Pizza & antipast!!) including our cake with authentic Italian decorations from Venice 😍
11.06.16
Always & forever always
❤️
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
Hi guys 👋🏻
I recently celebrated my 33rd birthday! 😱 Time flies aye.
In this blog post, I thought I would show you which books I was very kindly given. I didn’t ask for any of these, and I love seeing which ones people pick out for me.
There’s a nice mixture of genres here and I can’t wait to get stuck into them.
Is there a better present than a book someone has chosen for you because they think you’ll like it!!
Let’s take a look…
I was also very lucky to get some other ‘bookish’ birthday gifts in the form of some book vouchers! (YAY! New books) as well as this lovely book themed throw from my mother in law (already tucked up safely in my reading corner) and this cute personalised tote bag from my friend at work (perfect for fitting in lots of books during my next shopping spree!!)
An excellent haul, I’m very lucky.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne 🙂
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…
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 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 🙂
Roseanne Byford 