Tag: christmas 2016

Christmas home haul: Blogmas day 14

As you’ll have guessed by now I love this time of year! So I decided to show you some of the home bits that I have been picking up throughout late November & December so far.
This candle is a lovely frosted matte red colour with snowflake patterns on it.

Inside its silver with the red snowflakes printed on. It’s so pretty ❄

I also picked up this candle holder…

This is like a clear bottle with a gold glitter star on the front. There is a gold frame suspended inside the bottle for a tea light to sit in, super cute! 🌟

These both came from Tiger and were not more than £3 each.

Also from Tiger my lovely friends got me this cute little lantern light. I didn’t technically buy this so I’m unsure of the price.

It’s a lovely ceramic matte lantern with little holes in it. It looks lovely and snowy and when it’s lit it like a starry sky…

I also picked up these little Yankee candle wax melts. I picked these up from a garden centre and I can’t wait to burn these in my wax burner. 

‘Christmas cookie’ is so yummy smelling and smells just like Christmas baking. ‘Strawberry buttercream’ isn’t particularly Christmassy  but it smells sooooo good. I really want to pick up ‘Candy Cane lane’ before Christmas as it is super christmassy & smells so fresh and minty.

& finally Christmas bedding ♡

I love this so much and I can’t wait to put this on closer to Christmas 🎅

I love the pattern, it’s so cute with little Father Christmas’s, penguins & reindeer with little red stars. This comes from Asda and was only £12. 

I love Christmas and these little additioms make me feel even more festive 🌲

What have you guys found for your home to add a touch of Christmas? 

My beauty advent calender…

In today’s window I got a mono eyeshadow in the colour ‘New tral red’. This is quite different to the eyeshadows I have but I think this would go really well with some of the pieces I’ve got for my Christmas make up look so keep your eyes peeled for that!

Ho Ho Ho 

Roseanne 🎅

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Feeling festive 🎄☃ Blogmas day 13

I am so glad I had pre written this post as I’m ill & couldn’t face it today! Horrah for pre planning. 

So now that we are just over halfway to the big day it’s important to make sure you are feeling christmassy! So, if your not what can you do? Look no further!

1. Christmas songs: These always put me in the Christmas spirit, you only listen to these songs around this time of year so they’ll hopefully bring back festive memories & who doesn’t love a good sing song.

2. Christmas shopping: I know this can be a bit stressful but if you choose when/where you go wisely it can be really fun looking for the perfect gifts & maybe a few christmassy bits for yourself.
3. And if your ahead with your Christmas shopping why not do some wrapping? This will save you time later and it always makes me feel super festive.

4. Blogmas, yeah it’s a bit late to start it now but why not read some blogmas blog post to get you into the festive spirit? I love reading other people’s traditions/thoughts & celebrations of Christmas.

5. Put up your Christmas decorations: Being surrounding by decorations, tinsel & lights will definatly make it feel like Christmas is on its way. Why not get a few updated decorations or additios to your tree, for this year?!

6. Write or make your Christmas cards: It’s good to send these off around mid December anyway and it’s like wrapping in that it makes your feel festive. Make sure you write a list first though, you don’t want to miss anyone out.

7. Christmas markets: These are so lovely & great for getting the family together too. They are really festive, super cute and can be great to pick up unique Christmas pressies. I got myself a lovely snowflake brooch from a market recently & it’s so pretty.❄

8. Make Christmas plans: Decide what you are going to do on the big day & afterwards (Christmas eve too) This will get you organised and excited, again get family involved & make lots of fun plans together.

9. Go and see a Christmas film or show: Every year me & Tim go and see the Christmas rock n roll panto at our local theatre. It always makes me feel super christmassy and they are so much fun to watch. There are always a few Christmas films out at the cinema around this time of year, failing that pop your favorite Christmas dvd on 👍

10. Christmas baking: Grab a gingerbread cutter or a cupcake set and get baking. Your home will be filled with the delicious scents of Christmas and home baking, what more could you want?! And then there’s the taste testing afterwards of course. These are also great to share with Family & Friends. (Who doesn’t love a homade Christmas pressies? especially an edible one)

What makes you feel christmassy?  What are your Christmas traditions?

Today in my beauty advent calender…

Today I got this lovely bronzer! It’s a matte non shiny bronzer so this would be great to bronze & Contour too.

Ho Ho Ho 

Roseanne 🎅

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‘Mr & Mrs’ Christmas: Blogmas day 12 

So yesterday was mine & Tim’s 6 month wedding anniversary, where has that time gone?!?! 😱 I can’t believe it’s been half a year since our amazing day.

This Christmas will of course be our first one as a married couple, so how are we making it special? How is it different as husband & wife?  

Well I’m not sure it’s massively different to be honest haha but here are a few ways we are making it special; 

1. Mr & Mrs decoration; as one of our wedding presents we got a Mr & Mrs wedding decoration. This is really cute & looks lovely on out tree. 

‘Best friends for life husband & wife 💗’

2. Personalised Christmas cards; As I’m making our Christmas cards this year I thought it would be cute to get some christmassy stickers personalised to say ‘Merry Christmas from Mr & Mrs Byford’ 

I got these on eBay and they are really cute & festive. I’m going to put one on each card to seal them.

3. Wedding photos: Tim doesn’t know but I am getting some of our wedding photos printed off to go up on the wall in our home ♡ Here are the ones that I’ve chosen…

I got a lovely white frame with three spaces in it from Wilko, only £5 that I’m going to put them in and wrap up for Tim, I hope he likes it 🙂

& just generally enjoying the festivities together as a couple 💑 We have been to a few Christmas markets together & will be having our traditional panto trip too (Look out for those later on in Blogmas)

Today in my beauty advent calender…

I got this lovely eye primer. This is so handy as I find eyeshadow applies so much better with a primer. I havnt tried this one either so I’m looking forward to giving this a go.  

13 sleeps to go, seriously!! I need to get wrapping ✂

Ho Ho Ho 

Mrs Byford 😊🎅

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Beauty advent calender 🙈

Yup I forgot to include my beauty advent pieces from the last few days! I’m so rubbish at remembering this haha.

So, on Saturday 10th December I got this lovely eyeshadow.

It’s a lovely shimmery creamy colour. This would look lovely all over the lid or with a more dramatic make up look. I wore this on its own today and it looked really nice. 

On Sunday 11th December I got another lipstick and this one is perfect for autumn/Winter time. It’s a gorgeous plum shade which I love (& recently got a lip Liner of, yay!) 

The colour of the packaging made me worry a bit to begin with as it looks like bright purple 🙈 but, when I swatched it I realised it was a lovely plum tone. Thank goodness for that haha.

These are such a good size for your handbag too & the packaging is lovely with the simple goldey/copper writing.

I promise I’ll try & be better at including these at the end of my posts from now on!!

Ho Ho Ho 

Roseanne 🎅

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Winter Wonderland❄: Blogmas day 11

Yesterday we went to Winter Wonderland to enjoy the christmassy, winter goodness. We drove up to Westfield shopping centre in Stratford and took the tube to Marble Arch for the festive fun. 

This was our third time going to Winter Wonderland but Noahs first so we were excited for him to see it all.

London looked so Christmassy ☄

Me & Sarah made a detour to the Oxford Street Primark (omg so busy!) and once we had made it out we joined the group, it looked son pretty with all the little stalls & lights.

We went and found some food and I got a tradition bratwurst sausage 🌭 

Once we had eaten we queued up for the big wheel.

We got some yummy Hot chocolate while we waited…

Noah loved the big wheel! He loved looking at all the lights from above.

It was lots of fun!

& the chocolate waffles afterwards were delicious 😋

We took Noahy on some rides before going home…

He went on the penguins with mummy.
& Santa’s sleigh with me.
I would definatly recommend going as it’s lovely & a great day out to enjoy the wintry season. 

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Blogmas day 10: Tanya Burr cosmetics 💋

How are we 10 days in already?!? 

I recently bought some of Tanya’s Burrs make up from her latest ranges and I thought I would show you what I got.

First up, 

The Midnight smoulder palette from her New autumn collection.

The colours in this palette are so beautiful.

From top left to bottom right: Star gazing, endless sky, midnight navy & into the night.

Also from her Autumn collection I grabbed one of her lipsticks. I have wanted to try these for ages and I have got a couple of the colours on my Christmas list but I really wanted her red shade ready for the Christmas party season. They are lovely creme lipsticks and the colours are amazing.

This is the red shade, ‘Big kiss’

Here’s a swatch of the lipstick, it’s a lovely darker red  and is going to look great for my work Christmas meals.

From her Soft Luxe collection I picked up one of her lip glosses that I have seen her use in a few of her videos and really liked the look of it. 

This is in the shade ‘Afternoon tea’  it’s a lovely peachy pink colour.

I also picked up a lip gloss set from her New Christmas collection. I love her Christmas collection this year, it’s got some awesome pieces in it (also on my Christmas list!! Pretty please Santa 🎅)  and the packaging is gorgeous too.

These lip glosses are so pretty, the pink on the left side is called ‘Berry Pavlova’ and the red one is called ‘Candy Cane’  Love that!

I love the icy blues, cute light pink lips all over the packaging & glitter detailing to look like a Christmas bow. 

Here are some swatches…

These are limited edition so I had to grab them whilst they were still in stock as they won’t be available after Christmas.

My final item isn’t Tanya Burr but it’s along the same lines as it’s by her friend Zoella…

This cute make up bag is from Zoellas Tutti Fruitti range which is now being discontinued. I grabbed it for £2 since they’ll be gone soon and it’s such a lovely size for in your handbag. 

Have you tried any of these products? What did you think? What would you recommend?

(P.s I stayed at my sisters last night as we are off to Winter Wonderland today so I haven’t opened my advent calender, I will include today’s & tommorrows in Day 11 of Blogmas!)

Ho Ho Ho

Roseanne 🎅

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Blogmas day 9: Christmas party food 🍾

Food & Christmas, two of my favorite things and they go together so well! Last year for Blogmas I did a post on yummy diy sweet treats so I thought this time round I would stick to the food theme but go for party food. This is a great time of year for parties & buffets and I love some of these ideas. 

I’ve included websites & me methods for these recipes to make it super easy if you fancy giving any of these a try! & if you do give them a try let me know!! I’d love to see them.

Let’s get started,    

Christmas ham

I love gammon and this adds a special touch for Christmas.

Good Food Glazed Christmas Ham recipe

Baked cheddar crackers

These would be lovely with some tasty chutney or on their own, super cheesy.

Baked cheddar crackers recipe 

Cheese and grape Christmas tree 

This looks really cool and is so simple to create.

1. All you need to do is to chop up at least three different cheeses into cubes and pick green and red grapes off their stems. 

2. Once you’ve done this you can arrange them in layers, in the shape of a Christmas tree.

3. Pop a piece of celery at the bottom as the stem & add herbs between the layers to make it look more tree-like.

Tear & share garlic bread Christmas tree 

Garlicky, delicious and great to share. This recipe is a Jamie Oliver one, give it a try 👌

Tear and share garlic bread 

Cocktail sausages and dips

Cocktail sausages with dips, pretty self explanatory. I would personally swap plain cocktail sausages for pigs in blankets for the holiday season. Ketchup & mustard make great dips.

Spiced/seasoned nuts

These are great for a buffet or for snacking throughout the day. Nuts are quite traditional for Christmas too!

Good Food spicy/seasoned nuts 

Baked camembert with bacon wrapped breadsticks.

Gooey melted cheese and crispy golden bread = heaven!

Baked camembert with bacon wrapped breadsticks recipe 

Turkey & stuffing sausage rolls

These just sound amazing and would be fab as part of any buffet. Perfect to use up those leftovers too.

Great British Chefs turkey & stuffing sausage roll recipe 

Caramelised cranberry relish 

Super festive!

Good Food caramelised cranberry relish 

Starry mince pies

This recipe is a Nigella one and they look really cute with the star on top.

Nigella Lawson Mince pie recipe

Cranberry & Lime vodka 

This is a lovely festive twist on an alcoholic classic. Great for the party season.

1. Peel the rind of the lime.

2. Poke a hole in each cranberry using a fork.

3. Drop each cranberry into your empty bottle or jar. Drop pieces of lime rind alternatively throughout the layers of cranberry.

4. Add the sugar.

5. Using a funnel fill the bottle with as much vodka as you can fit. 

6. Serve 🍸

Strawberry and cream Santa’s 

These are super easy! 

1.Cut the top (stalk end) of the strawberry off so that you have a flat bottom. Turn it upside down on to the flat surface.

2. Cut off the pointy end, fill the space with whipped cream, mixed with cream cheese & icing sugar to make it stiffer.

3. Place the pointed end of the strawberry back on top as the Santa hat, add a blob of cream for the bobble on top.

4. Pipe a little cream for buttons & eyes to add detail.

And finally, 

Chocolate truffle cheesecake 

I’m hoping to make this for me & Tim to have on Christmas day as our dessert as neither of us like the traditional Christmas pudding or cake. This would also make a great centrepiece at a party or a lovely addition to a buffet table.

Chocolate truffle cheesecake 

I hope you’ve enjoyed this post! All things foodie 😋

Whats your favourite party or Christmas food?

Day 9 of my advent calender…

Another nude lipstick! This looks quite similar to the one that I got previously but it’s actually a much lighter shade of nude. 

Ho Ho Ho

Roseanne 🎅

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The nightmare before Christmas: Blogmas day 8

Last night me and my sister Sarah went to the cinema to see ‘The nightmare before Christmas’ in 3D. Neither of us have seen it before so we thought since our local Cineworld had a one off showing why not go and see what all the fuss is about! I knew the film had been out for a while but I didn’t realise it came out in 1993, blimey.

The showing was at 8.15 so we grabbed our popcorn and headed to our seats. 

I quite enjoyed the film, having never seen it, it was like watching a new film (even though it’s been out for years) you can definatly tell it’s by Tim Burton as it’s got a bit of a wierd edge to it.

The songs are very catchy (I never realised quite how musically orientated it is) I’m going to be singing ‘This is Halloween’ & ‘Whats this?!’ in my head tomorrow haha. I would probably give the film:

It’s cool that the film is a mixture of both Halloween and Christmas as I like both of these holidays. It’s not really over the top christmassy but still cool to watch this time of year anyway. It makes you think about the complete contrast that these two holidays are. 🎄 Vs 🎃

I think I will do another Blogmas post on a Christmas film that I haven’t seen before, Home alone. This is much to the disgust of a lot of people (my sister especially) So I think I’ll try and find a time to watch that this festive month and see what all the fuss is about!!

In day 8 of my advent calender…

I got this lovely sheer lip gloss. It’s in a beautiful peachy pink colour & as I have loads of liquid lipsticks but only 1 or 2 lip glosses this is fab! I’m going to wear it today as it has a lovely colour & shine to it that’s nice even to wear on its own (I can’t be bothered with full make up today!)
Any Christmas film recommendations?

Ho Ho Ho 

Roseanne 🎅

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Day 7 of my advent calendar for Blogmas 🎄

For day 7 of Blogmas I’m going to show you what I got today in my beauty advent and how it looks on.

I’ve used a few of the products from my calendar for my make up today so I thought it would be a good opportunity to show you.

So what did I get today…

This lovely browny toned blusher. This is really lovely & once again a shade of blusher I dont have! I usually go for pinky blushers so this is great. 

It’s got a lovely light shimmer running through it and I just think it’s really cool because it looks a bit like a planet 😁

To apply this I used my face make up brush that I got yesterday in my advent calendar…

These brushes are really cute with the ombre bristles & rose gold detail.

Some other products I used are:

  • Body shop BB cream shade 2
  • Collection lasting perfection concealor shade ‘Cool medium’
  • Bourjois Radiance reveal concealor shade ‘Ivory’
  • Revolution strobing balm (also from my beauty advent see Blogmas day 4 )
  • Mac matte lipstick in shade ‘Whirl’ (my sister might recognise this hehe)

I love this blusher/lipstick combo & the strobing balm is awesome. I used it dry and the colour & highlight is awesome 🌟

What beauty advent calendars have you guys got?  What’s your favourite product that you’ve got so far?


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Stocking fillers: Blogmas day 6

The Christmas stocking is one of my favourite traditions! I’ve had one since I was a child and I will continue to do so because it’s christmassy & a great way to start off Christmas day!

So I started off by making a list of a few different things that would make great stocking fillers and then I have grouped them into stockings for £5 all the way up to £30. 

These are mainly aimed at women but I will include some male orientated stocking fillers at the bottom to help you out. Men are definatly harder to cater for when it comes to stockings. I’ll pop the prices & shops I have seen these in or a suggestion of where you can get something similar.

I have tried to make sure that the stockings have a bit of variety in them as that’s always fun, here goes…

A £5 Stocking This was really tricky but for as few little treats I’ve included: 

  • A Chocolate Santa or coins depending on their preference £1 (Supermarkets or poundshops)
  • Revolution blusher £1(Superdrug)
  • Flutter bath fizzer £1 (Superdrug)
  • Novelty socks £2.00 (Tesco) 

Total: £5.00

Another £5 Stocking.

  • Lush ‘Floating island’ bath oil bar £2.00
  • Chocolate £1
  • Revolution eyeshadow £1 (Superdrug)
  • Flutter make up sponge £1 or Flutter cute nail file set, pack of 3 £1 (Superdrug)

Total: £5.00

A £10 stocking.

  • The body shop ‘Shea treats’ set which includes a shower creme, body whip & beige bath lily £5
  • Chocolate coins or Santa £1
  • Mua lipstick £1 (Superdrug)
  • Revolution Blusher £1 (Superdrug)
  • Christmas socks  £2.00 (Tesco)

Total: £10.00



 Another £10 stocking.

  • Dove ‘Ever blossom’ bath & shower duo set, this comes with two of their bath & shower cremes & a bath puff £2.50 (Superdrug)
  • Chocolate Santa £1
  • Book £3.99 (Amazon) They currently have loads of bestselling books for only £3.99, get them quick.
  • Christmas socks £2.00 (Tesco)

Total: £9.49



A £15 stocking.

  • Lindor truffles 50g box £1 (Superdrug) or any chocolate.
  • ‘Stocking filler: 12 Christmas short stories £4.99 (paperback, Amazon) 
  • Maybelline Merry kissmas gift set £3.75 (Tesco)
  • Sanctuary ‘get cosy’ candle set £4.50 (Boots)
  • Flutter bath fizzer £1 (Superdrug)

Total: £15.25

Slightly over in this one but not much!

Another £15 stocking.

  • Lush ‘Comforter’ bubble bar £4.95
  • Tanya Burr ‘Mrs Claus’ Nail set £4 (Superdrug) 
  • Chocolate £1
  • Toucan coin purse £4.50 (paperchase) 

Total: £14.45

A £20 stocking.

  • The body shop beauty bag. This comes in different scents, shea, strawberry, citrus etc and includes a shower gel, hand cream & body butter in a cute little bag. All travel size. £10
  • Chocolate £1
  • A book £3.99 (Amazon) 
  • Tanya Burr ‘It’s kissmass’ lip gloss duo £5 (Superdrug)

Total: £19.99

Another £20 stocking.

  • Toucan coin purse £4.50 (paperchase)
  • Revolution redemption eyeshadow palette, different styles available £4 (Superdrug)
  • Chocolate £1 
  • Soap & Glory ‘Take your pink’ gift set which includes a shower puff, hand cream, body scrub & shower creme. £10 (Boots) 

Total: £19.50

£30 stocking.

  • No 7 ‘glamorous eyes’ palette £10 (Boots) 
  • Deboss notebook, this comes in lots of gorgeous designs £10 (paperchase) 
  • Lindor truffles 50g box £1 (Tesco)
  • Zoella Hungry hands ‘ginger cream’ hand cream £5 (Superdrug)
  • Lush ‘Dragon egg’ bath bomb £3.75

    Total: £29.75

        Another £30 stocking.

        • Ghost bauble, these come in different scents with a mini version of a Ghost perfume & another miniature too £8 (Boots) 
        • Real techniques ‘Core collection’ make up brush set £12.50 (Amazon)
        • Chocolate £1
        • Sanctuary ‘Get cosy’ candle set £4.50 (Boots)
        • Revolution blusher & eyeshadow £1 (Superdrug)
        • Lush Bath oil bar £2

          Total: £30

              Obviously you can mix and match, but these are just a few ideas for you that I’ve put together! 

              Some ideas for mens stockings are:

              • (Book) ‘Stocking fillers: 12 short christmas stories’ £4.99 (Amazon)
              • (Books) Some bestselling novels are £3.99 on Amazon  
              • Novelty socks (Primark, Tesco)
              • (Game) ’50 things to do once in a lifetime’ This is a dinner party game where you see how many you’ve done/suggest your own £6.20 (Amazon)
              • Chocolate coins/ Santa’s depending on their preference or any chocolate
              • No7 daily duo wash set, this includes a body & hair wash and a face wash £10 (Boots)
              • Lynx wash bag set, this includes two Lynx shower gel & a deodrant £10 (Boots/Superdrug)
              • Gillette flexiball set, this includes the flexiball razor & hydrating hydra gel £10 (Superdrug/Boots)
              • Aftershave; eg David Beckham, Ted Baker etc £10 (Superdrug/Boots)

              Websites: Boots Amazon Paperchase The body shop Superdrug

              I hope this has given you lots of ideas to fill up those stockings!!

              Before I go, day six of my beauty advent calender…

              A face make up brush. This is again a cute small size. 

              Ho Ho Ho 

              Roseanne 🎅

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