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My Tanya Burr advent calendar: Blogmas day 4 🎄

Hi guys!

Day four of Blogmas is here! and today is another look inside my Tanya Burr ‘Tanya’s treats’ advent calendar.

I have combined two windows today in order to make sure that I open them in Blogmas and you guys can see what I’ve got. Basically I couldn’t wait to open it so I opened one on the first and if I do it every other day the last window would be opened on Christmas day, one day too late!

So, lets take a look inside…

So, behind window number two of my advent calendar was a lovely lipgloss.

 

 

The lipgloss is a lovely red colour with a berry tone to it. Its called ‘Cranberry melt’.

I don’t usually wear lipgloss but I’m definatly going to be trying this out over the festive period as its a great colour for the season. The gloss glides on really nicely, the colour is nice and bright but not too in your face and it isn’t really uncomfortable and sticky on your lips.

Very wearable for everyday or great for a Christmas party look!

Behind window number three of my advent calendar was a super sparkly eye liner.

The eyeliner is gold and glittery, great for adding a sparkle to the eyes. For a eyeliner novice such as myself this was very easy to apply.

 

21 days to go!

 

Until next time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Tanya’s Christmas: Get inspired! Blogmas day 3 🎄

Hi guys!

To get prepared this Christmas I picked up Tanya Burr’s new book ‘Tanya’s Christmas’ Its full of recipes, gifting, gift wrapping, party, make up and just general christmas prep ideas to get those festive juices flowing.

I love this book, its so lovely to look through and so handy at this hectic time of year. Its an ultimate Christmas guide and its made me feel really festive and EXCITED for December and the big day in particular.

Tanya is one of my favourite Youtubers so I was really pleased when she released this book. I have chosen some of my favourite pieces from the book to share with you guys. Alot of them are baking ideas that I want to make in the lead up to Christmas and for Christmas day.

I hope you enjoy this little insight into the book, and who knows it might give you some Christmassy ideas too.

Lets take a look!

Make!

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I love the idea of making your own decorations and this arrangement by Tanya is so simple, yet so effective!

Its using natural resources such as dried oranges (beaut smell!!) pine cones and cinnamon sticks. A lovely fragrant display that you can arrange any way that you wish. I would probably swap out the cinnamon sticks as I’m not a fan of this scent, the beauty of this simple idea is that you can put your own twist on it and make it to match your theme. I like the idea of using pine branches and holly, as well as gold sprayed pine cones.

Bake!

Lets be frank, food is one of the best parts of Christmas so, I have picked out a few of the recipes in the book.

The first couple of recipes are ones that I want to make in the lead up to Christmas.

On the left is a tear and share Chocolate orange cookie. Chocolate orange is my ultimate fave and I love a Terry’s chocolate orange at Christmas, so instantly I was drawn to this. I will be making this in the lead up to Christmas because its going to be delicious and baking always gets me in a warm and cosy mood.

In the middle picture are rice crispy Christmas puddings. I want to have a go at making these with my Nephew Noah as I think these will be really fun to make together (& I’m sure his little bro Casey will help us taste test them along the way)

On the right are Smores biscuits. I want to make these for me, my husband, sister, brother in law and nephews to enjoy on Christmas eve! Super cosy.

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I’ve also chosen the ‘Chocolate brownie traybake with salted caramel ice cream’ to make for mine and Tim’s Christmas dinner dessert. Neither of us like the traditional Christmas pud so I always make us something chocolatey and indulgent and this is perfect.

Celebrate!

I love the section in the book with her Christmas traditions as well as Tanya’s viewers traditions too. These are really interesting to read, its cool to see how people spend their day and how their traditions differ from country to country.

This section is also great for those of you who want to add some new traditions to your Christmas routine and need some inspiration!

Some of our Christmas traditions include:

  • Christmas Lights
  • Christmas eve boxes
  • Stockings
  • Panto
  • Family word and board games

I won’t go into these too much as I have a post in the pipeline that focuses on these a bit more. I love traditions and they are very important to me, especially at this time of the year when I think it is really important to spend time with your loved ones and enjoy the simple pleasures and comfort that traditions can bring.

For those of you who love Christmas like I do, you will really enjoy this beautiful book. I grabbed mine from Amazon and I’ll leave the link below for you!

Tanya’s Christmas – Amazon £8

22 days to go!

Until next time,

Roseanne 🙂

 

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A very Harry Potter Christmas: Blogmas day 9 ☇

Hi guys!

So, this is very exciting!! Well I think so anyway haha. For any of my fellow Harry Potter fans out there, this ones for you…

I have seen many photos over the years (thanks Pinterest) of Harry Potter Christmas trees, and with an extra tree in our flat this year, well it seemed rude not to give it a go finally.

I’ve got plenty of Harry Potter memorabilia to create such a masterpiece and so I set about decorating my most magical Christmas tree yet.

I already had lights and fittingly (excluding the pink ) they are red, green, yellow and blue lights, the same colours as the four Hogwarts houses.

I used two Hogwarts ties that I had as tinsel, A red and gold Gryffindor one and a blue and silver Ravenclaw one. The Ravenclaw one is actually my sister Sarah’s, so if your reading this, thanks for your contribution haha.

As I said, I used lots of different bits of my Harry Potter memerobilia to decorate the main body of the tree and it was really fun adding all my little Harry Potter trinkets onto the tree, from baubles to characters, pictures and more.

The tree topper, like many Ive seen online had to be my sorting hat that I got from the Warner Bros studio tour, it brings it all together really well.

Lets take a look…

Ron Pop Vinyl & Hufflepuff bauble.
Harry’s famous glasses.
Dobby pop vinyl & Hogwarts express ticket.
Hermione’s love potion & a Gryffindor tie.
The Gaut family ring & Dumbledore’s chocolate frog card.
The golden snitch.
The time turner.
Yule ball decoration.

 

Here is the finished tree…

The sorting hat!

 

Until next time,

Roseanne 🙂

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The start of advent! 🎄 Blogmas Day 2

Hi guys!

Its day two of Blogmas and its an advent update. I have two advent calenders this year, a chocolate one (Cadburys of course!)

…and a beauty advent, Tanya Burr’s ‘Tanya’s treats’ beauty calendar.

Tanya’s beauty advent calendar is 12 days of Christmas so every other day my Blogmas post will focus on what I have got inside the calendar.

20171201_073230I love having a beauty advent and I wasn’t able to get my hands on Tanya’s last year so I was really pleased to get one, I love her beauty range.

The calendar is really nice, I love the rose gold and shiny burgundy colour scheme and cute sweet shop scene.

Lets take a look at day one!

Behind window number one was a lovely red nail polish. I love the packaging of her nail varnishes, the large gold top and gold writing look really sleek.

The colour is ‘Festive Red’ and is a beautiful and bold Christmas red. This is perfect for the festive season.

20171201_204918(Apologies for the state of my nails!!)

I cant wait to open the next door on Sunday!

Until next time,

Roseanne 🙂

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12 months, 12 books!

Hi guys!

I LOVE to read, I would even go as far as to say it is my favourite hobby. So, I thought I would share this hobby with you guys.

So this is basically my guide to a good read. All of these books I have read and thoroughly enjoyed! Its one book for each month of the year. As I’ll explain along the way, I have put certain books and months together just to make it a bit more tailored to those months and to myself (It is my guide after all haha)

I hope you guys find this useful and are drawn to a few of these brilliant books, maybe you could pop them onto your Christmas list! You may even know someone who would enjoy one of these, or failing that they would make great stocking fillers,

Lets take a look at the books I’ve chosen…

Bridget Jones Diary By Helen Fielding.

Because we all need a bit of cheering up in January! & Bridget is a very endearing character. January is probably when most people would start writing a new diary, a new year, a new chapter.

Billy & Me By Giovanna Fletcher.

A brilliant and cosy love story, wonderfully written. You will fall in love with the setting, its characters and the story of a young couple in love.

Blood sisters by Jane Corry.

I really enjoyed this book and found the twists really keep you on your toes.

After I’ve gone By Linda Green.

This book is SO gripping. With social media being at the forefront of todays culture this novel really makes you think. (+ its full of Harry Potter references!!)

Is it just me? By Miranda Hart.

May is my birthday month and I received this book for my birthday a few years ago. It is full of laughs. Miranda Hart is my favourite comedian and this hilarious book of anecdotes and stories is just fab! Sure to put a smile on your face. Almost halfway!

The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks.

“Every great love starts with a story.” This book is beautiful, true love personified, it made me cry!! (All the feels!!) and during what is a special month for me and my husband I thought this was a rather apt choice.

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. ”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Lying about last summer by Sue Wallman.

Since July is the start of the summer I thought that this would make a good choice. This one is a teenage read (technically, but don’t let that put you off adults!!) It is super easy to get into and is just a lovely story about overcoming fears and letting go of guilt.

Change of heart By Jodi Picoult.

I was on holiday when I read this, hence the choice of months! and this is by far one of my favourites of all of Jodi Picoults books. It is SO gripping you honestly won’t be able to put it down, 10/10.

Harry Potter and the Philosphers Stone By J.K Rowling

Because was I ever going to do a book review without getting a Harry Potter book in there?? (NO, No I was not) This book is so MAGICAL and if your anything like me you’ll be dreaming of boarding that train to Hogwarts on September the 1st.

The Ice cream girls By Dorothy Koomson.

Take yourself back to Summer time with this seaside set novel. Heart breaking but brilliantly written by another one of my favourite authors.

Mince pies and mistletoe at the Christmas market By Heidi Swann.

This is a lovely easy reader with an awesome festive feel to it. If this doesn’t get you into the festive spirit I don’t know what will!!

Tanya’s Christmas By Tanya Burr

This is a fantastic book to get you feeling super festive, but also prepared for all the merriment. Its not a story, its more of a guide to Christmas and Christmas prep. Its full of brilliant crafty ideas, tantalizing recipes that will make your mouth water and make up, gifting and wrapping ideas to get those festive juices flowing, perfect.

 

These books are all quite different so I’m hoping there’s something in there for all of you guys to get your teeth stuck into,

What’s your favourite book? Favourite Author? Any recommendations?

 

Until next time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Blogmas 2017! ITS HAPPENING!!

Hi guys!

This is just a brief post to remind you that I will indeed be embarking on Blogmas again this year.

Yup, that’s a blog a day, everyday throughout the month of December, up until the big day on the 25th.

I bloody LOVE Christmas so expect some super festive and fun ideas, craft, recipes, make up, party looks, gifting, food and SO MUCH MORE!!

Its tough but I am so excited to get stuck in and document my festivities, as well as hopefully spreading the festive fun and inspiring you guys to make the best of this time of year, because it really is the most wonderful time of the year. 

So watch out December 1st, I’m coming for you!

 

Until next time,

Roseanne 🙂

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Get to know me tag: 25 questions ⁉

I realised that I have never done one of these before and having had this blog for nearly 2 years now I really should! So here goes. 
That’s me 👇

Let’s get into the questions…

1.What is your middle name? My middle name is Amy. I’ve got a short middle name as my first name, Roseanne is quite long.

2. What was your favourite subject at school?  My favourite subject at school was Media Studies, I loved it, still do. I took it for GCSE after I had been to a taster session and enjoyed it and I ended up finding that one subject I could just do. I got an A in my GCSE and decided to take it for A level too which was awesome and so much fun.

3. What is your favourite drink? My favourite hot drink is tea, my favourite cold drink is diet coke.

4. What is your favourite song at the moment? I have a couple, ‘Giants’ by Take That and ‘Play that song’ by Train 

5. What is your favourite food? Chocolate. Haha! This is hard because I’m such a foodie but I would probably pick mushrooms, cheese & chocolate.

6. What is the last thing you bought? This was probably when I went to Primark on Friday. I picked up a few different bits there, clothes, accessories, home stuff etc👍

7. What is your favourite book of all-time? Harry Potter. All of them. The first one is very magical and where it all began though so if I had to pick one that would be it.

8. What is your favourite colour? GREEEEN.

9. Have you got any pets? YES! I have two lovely guinea pigs 💚 Mine is called Remus (after Remus Lupin the HP character) and Tim’s is called Captain. They are brothers and super lovely xx 

Remus is the greyey/brown & ginger one and Captain is the black & ginger one.

 10. What is your favourite perfume? I love ‘Intimatly Beckham’ by VB but this has been discontinued 😦 So if I can’t get hold of that I also really like ‘Oh Lola’ by Marc Jacobs.

11. Are you married? As you’ll know, if you follow my blog, I started this blog to document our wedding planning. So, yes I am ♡ 

12. How many times have you been out of the country? I have been out of the country a few times, if you count England then I’ve been to Wales, Ireland & Scotland too. Abroad I have been to Rhodes in Greece, Lille/Paris in France, Austria, Amsterdam, Venice/Florence/Rome/Bolonge/Sardinia in Italy and Tenerife & Lanzerote in the Canary Islands.

13. Do you speak another language? Nope. We obviously learnt another language at school, French! But I was really rubbish and I didn’t take French any longer than I had to.

14. Do you have any siblings?  I have two sisters. I have a twin sister called Sarah who is 13 minutes younger than me and an older sister called Charlotte who is 5 years older than me.

15.  What is your favourite shop? Without a doubt it would have to be Primark. I love shopping, especially for clothes and it’s my fav clothes shop. I also really like Superdrug, H&M, Lush & Paperchase. 

16. What is your favourite restaurant? It’s gotta be Nandos, I love it. It’s so tasty and I liked it before I started doing Slimming World and I love that it has great options for when your on or off plan. 

17. What is your favourite blog? I love the blogs of the Youtubers I like to watch, Zoella and Tanya Burr in particular. I also really like Poppy Deyes blog as she covers lots of topics that I’m interested in such as fashion, home decor and baking/cooking.

18. What is your favourite movie? This question creates a similar answer to my favourite book… Harry Potter. All of them. But again the first film is where it all starts, is so magical and is so loyal to the book that I just love it.

19. What is your favourite tv show?  I love Friends, it never fails to make me laugh no matter how many times I have seen it. I also really enjoy soaps such as Neighbours/Home&Away/Eastenders etc. I love crime dramas such as Broadchurch/Line of Duty/Midsummer murders and me & my husband love watching things on Netflix such as How I met your mother, Pretty little liars, The Big bang theory so tbh I can’t choose!! It really depends on my mooooood.

20. Pc or Mac?  This is a bit of a random question but I’d definitely say PC as I have only ever had PCs and I would only get a PC. I loved using Macs when I did media at school but apart from that I like my good old PC. 

21. What phone do you have? I have the Samsung S7 in Pink/Rose gold. 

22. How tall are you? I am 5ft 5 inches.

23. Favourite country you’ve visited? Italy. I don’t even need to think about it. It’s amazing, the best and we love it. It’s a beautiful country, absolutely gorgeous, SO much to see & the food is phenomenal. Venice in particular is my fav part of Italy, It’s like nowhere else you’ll ever visit. 

24. Can you cook? Yes! I love cooking. I also really enjoy baking too (especially the eating part) I think that’s why I love cooking so much haha. I really enjoy creating something but I also know it’s going to result in me eating which is always awesome 😂

25. Who is your favourite band? I would have to say Take That ☆ because they are just awesome and I love both their old and new stuff annddddd they are epic live.

So that was my ‘Get to know me tag!’ I hope you enjoyed it guys, let me knowww. Speak soon ✌

Until next time, 

Roseanne 🙂

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