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Blogmas 2023 Day Nineteen: My Harry Potter Christmas Tree ⚡️🎄

Hi guys 👋🏻

Less than a week to go!!

I thought that I would share with you one of my favourite Christmas decorations …

My Harry Potter themed Christmas tree.

I themed the tree around the colours of my favourite Hogwarts house – Gryffindor.

First, I started off by wrapping the tree with red and gold tinsel.

Next, I added the hand tied Gryffindor ribbons.

Then, I arranged all of my different Harry Potter baubles.

I have quite a few now as Primark have done some lovely sets over the last few years.

I also picked up a few amazing Gryffindor themed decorations at the studio tour in Watford.

I predominantly place my red and gold Gryffindor baubles as well as my general Harry Potter baubles, around the front of the tree. The others go around the other side to even it out.

Finally, I add my tree topper!

This year, I went for my sorting hat. I do have a Harry Potter Hogwarts Crest topper, but I could not find it in our storage unit (sad times)

The Sorting Hat looks so effective up there, it makes a brilliant topper.

I am really happy with how the tree came out this year.

I do think that I need to have my coloured fairy lights on the tree next year, just to enhance it a little and make it stand out… especially as I have a set that are red, yellow, blue, and green, which are the Hogwarts house colours.

Top tip 1: If you’d like to do your own Harry Potter tree but you can’t find any baubles for sale, then you could do what I did the first year I had one… use your Harry Potter Memorabilia to deocarte your tree ie Hogwarts train tickets, Yule Ball programme etc

Top tip 2: Buy some baubles that are the colours you want to represent on your Harry Potter tree (ie Red & Gold for Gryffindor, Silver and Green for Slytherin) You could hang them as they are or decorate them yourself to make them themed baubles.

How do you decorate your tree?

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas 2023 Day Eleven: Christmas Lights Tour ✨️

Hi guys 👋🏻

Today’s post is a super festive one!

At the weekend me and my husband travelled to London to see my Uni friend and her family.

We decided to meet for an early dinner so that we had an opportunity to catch up.

We wanted to do somehtifn festive and fun because it’s Christmas time and we had her children with us too.

I found a Christmas Lights tour of London online, with brilliant reviews. This was right up my street.

It was so much fun, and it was so cool to see all of the amazing and varied Christmas lights around Central London.

Our tour guide was brilliant, she was really funny and very knowledgeable about London (being a 4th generation Londoner probably helps!) I liked that we not only saw the lights but she also talked us through them.

She also offered interesting facts about the famous landmarks and streets that our tour took us through.

We all had a brilliant time! It’s well worth a go if you want some fun and festive to do in London, in the lead up to Christmas.

We booked through a company called ‘Golden Tours’ which were great, easy to use and very reliable.

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas 2023 Day Seven: My Christmas Reads 📚🎄

Hi guys 👋🏻

It’s time to do one of my favourite blog posts, all about books! Specifically my Christmas books for this festive period.

I have picked out five books that I am hoping to read over Christmas and the new year!

Let’s take a look…

‘That Festive Feeling’ By Heidi Swain

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I look forward to every Christmas and a big part of that is the traditional Heidi Swain Christmas novel that she releases every October/November time.

Her Christmas books are my favourite.

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‘Holly has the place to herself this Christmas. House sitting for friends who live on Nightingale Square. Newly single and unsure about next steps for her career, she plans to hunker down and make some life decisions.’

‘The Adventure of the Christmas pudding’ by Agatha Christie

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This is our Christmas Book Club Book Pick. We wanted something a bit different, a well known, classic author but with a Christmas theme. Agatha Christie is, of course, a classic author, and I’ve never read one of her books, so it will be good to do so.

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‘An English country house at Christmas time, with its cracking log fires and fine food, may seem an incongruous setting for a crime- but a sinister note left in his pillow warns Hercule Poirot to be on his guard.’

‘The Christmas Sisters’ by Sarah Morgan

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Sarah Morgan is another author whose books I enjoy and she always releases a new Christmas book around this time of year.

I have been meaning to read this one for a few years but due to having a lot of Christmas books I haven’t got round to it yet.

‘All that Suzanne McBride wants for Christmas is her three daughters happy and at home. But when sisters Posy, Hannah and Beth feturn to their family home in the Scottish Highlands, Old tensions and buried secrets start bubbling to the surface.‘

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‘One perfect Christmas and other stories’ by Paige Toon

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I have a couple of these books where it is made up of lots of short stories, with a Christmas theme.

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These books are also great if you don’t have much time over the festive period, each little story isn’t loads of pages so it’s great for a quick festive hit.

‘The Christmas Book Club’ by Sarah Morgan

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This is Sarah Morgans latest Christmas book and it sounds like my idea of heaven with the Book Club theme.

This sounds great and super cosy.

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‘A long lasting friendship. Every year, Erica, Claudia, and Anna reunite for their book club holiday. They’re bonded by years of friendship and a deep love of books, but there is still so much they keep from each other.’

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What’s on your 2023 reading list for the festive period?

Any Christmas book recommendations welcome!

Until Next Time,

Roseanne 🙂

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