MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
Blogmas Day Twenty Five: Merry Christmas ๐
Tag: fun
Blogmas Day Twenty Two: Christmas Eve Boxes ๐ ๐ป
3 days to go!!
I love putting together a Christmas eve box for my Nephews and Niece. I have been doing it each year since my Nephew Noah was born. It is one of my favourite traditions as I love to treat them.
You can get some great (various sized boxes) for this purpose from places like Card Factory, B&M, Home Bargins, and most Card or Pop up Christmas Shops.
It’s fun and festive finding little bits and bobs to go in them.
Here are some things that I usually go for:
- Chocolate Coins
- Box of Festive Cookie Mix/Cupcakes
- Chocolate Santa
- Festive Sweets
- Christmas activity pack
- Christmas arts & craft sets
- Christmas Pjs
- Christmas Socks
- Christmas decoration
- Novelty Christmas headware/hats/hairbands
- Reindeer food
- Hot chocolate sachet
- Mini Christmas games eg Christmas Snap
- Christmas hair bands
Hopefully that gives you a little bit of inspiration!
Here are my Christmas eve boxes for this year..
Have you put these together before?
What do you like to include?
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
Blogmas Day Twenty One: Harry Potter themed stocking fillers โก
4 days to go!!
Now that the holidays are here and its not long to go until the big day – here are some quick, fun and easy Harry Potter themed stocking filler ideas (great for kiddies & adults alike)
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
Blogmas Day Four: Our Work Christmas Party ๐ฅ
21 Days to go!
On Friday we had our work Christmas party.
We booked this during the last school year so that we had something to look forward to!!
And it was a great night!
The theme of the evening was ‘Great Gatsby’ so they had lots of Flapper, dancing performers, a Singer, Acrobats and Fire Eaters.
They performed inbetween the different course.
The three course meal was really delicious. I wasn’t keen on the desserts but my Starter and Main were great.
This buttermilk chicken was delicious. It came with mini tortillas and homemade coleslaw.
The Vegetarian Wellington was so tasty. It had layers of Veleriac, Sweet Potato, Mushroom and Pepper in a golden pastry case. The veggies (especially the carrots) and potatoes were great too.
We had such a fun night!
Great friends, good food, drinks, pretend roulette, shots… dancing, more shots ๐คฃ๐ฌ๐ฅ
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
Halloween Fun ๐
I Love Autumn & Halloween… here’s what we got up to !
We went out for the day, to a nearby farm!
It was brilliant.
There was SO much to do.. we made wands, got sorted into our Hogwarts house, had a spooky trailer ride, explored the spooky maze, picked and decorated pumpkins, pettee guinea pigs & rabbits, looked at loads of other animals and had a bug trailer ride.
A great family day out, themed really well and with lots of fun to be had.
We had a fun little family Halloween party at my sisters house.s
She set up some fun activities for them, we also had a buffet of party food, spooky tunes and Halloween pass the parcel.
Me & Tim always do a few Halloween traditions at home – these include carving a pumpkin (we’ve done one every year that we’ve been together) and I make us ‘Spooky Sausages’ which are meant to look like mummies.
I also like to watch horror films but Tim isn’t too keen on those so thats usually just me haha
Some of my favourites are Scream, Halloween, Hocus Pocus, Nightmare before Christmas and Nightmare on Elm St.
Our local cinema was showing some Halloween classics on Halloween.
Me and my Twin sister Sarah always watch horror films together so we went along and watched the original Scream! I can’t believe its the 25th Anniversay ๐ฑ
Scream is my favourite ‘Scary Movie’ and it was cool to watch it on the big screen.
What did you get up to this Halloween?
Do you have any traditions??
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
Holiblog: Summer 2021 pt 2
Part 2… its very late but ah well.
So, as I said, I thought I would start up the ‘Holiblog’ series for the Summer… turns out I didn’t do a very good job… because here we are, quite a few days into Autumn and I haven’t posted a Part Two: August…
So here is that part… not because anyone cares but because we did alot of fun stuff in August and it deserves its own part too.
Let’s take a look!
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Sleepover fun continued… off to the cinema we go!
Follower by a Nandos just me and Tim โก
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A yummy lunch with my friend Charlotte.
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Lunch and a catch up with my friend, by the Waterfront. Followed by a stroll into town.
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The final Youth Club Farewell ๐ฅ
The Youth Club that I went to as a teen and have volunteered at for over ten years is closing. It is really sad and the end of an era! The leaders who used to look after us are now our friends and we had some great times that we will treasure fondly.
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We celebrated our oldest friends (who we’ve known the longest, since we were 3!!) 30th Birthday.
We had some nibbles, drinks and a noce catch up.
I can’t believe we are all turning 30 ๐
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This was our Summer holiday this year and because of COVID we thought we would keep it local.
We went camping (for the first time!!) Staying at Waveney River Centre in Norfolk. It was nice and relaxing and a bit different. We had some nice meals, played games, went on walks in the sunshine, swam and met up with my Auntie and Cousin.
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Me & my twin sister had organised our bestfriends Hen and finally (thanks COVID!!) it happened.
And it was SO much fun! We started with an Escape Room, followed by lunch, an amazing, hilarious, tipsy Cocktail Masterclass, Dinner and more cocktails ๐ฅ
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We started off with fun at ‘YaYas House’ a stay and play play centre, which would of 100% been my dream as a child, with its themed rooms.
The boys came over for a sleepover – its so good to be able to do them again.
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Today, we celebrated my Aunties 70th birthday. It was a lovely family get-together.
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An excellent, if not a little, messy (and expensive) day starting with a yummy bottomless brunch. I work with great people.
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Celebrating the birthdays of my two fave little boys ๐ My Nephews.
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I got my husband Tim a Meerkat experience at our local zoo. This was part of his 30th birthday present. He loved it.
I hope you had a brilliant Summer!
Until Next Time,
Roseanne
Holiblog: Summer 2021
Hi guys ๐๐ป
I thought I would start up the holiblog series again, for this summer.
Here is how I have spent the later part of July, since the summer holidays began.
It’s been a fun start.
H a pp y โข H o li da ys โข
Saturday 17th July 2021
Sunday 18th July 2021
Big Kids 
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Moooooo 
Monday 19th July 2021
Tues 20th July 2021
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Snacks! 
The cinema really started to fill up
Wed 21st July 2021
Summer Reading Challenge 
Sharing stories 
Reading 
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Hot Dog Party ๐๐ญ
Sat 25th July 2021
Coffee and a book 
Sushi ๐
Mon 26th July 2021
Walking on the Heath 
Lunch ๐ฝ
Tues 27th July 2021
Wolves Wood 
Walkinga 
I made a friend ๐ธ
Wed 28th July 2021
Summer Reading challenge week 2 
The Waterfront 
Dinner at the Bistro with Louise, Kerry & Rach.
Sat 31st July 2021
The boys first sleepover in over a year and a half . Dinner and lots of games.
What have you been up to so far, this summer? โ๏ธ
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
Half Term Diary ๐
Hi guys ๐๐ป
Disclaimer: (Its a bit late, sorry!)
Another half term has been and gone! How are we already half way through 2021!?!
It was a fun half term and the first one with more restrictions lifted, so I thought I would share what I got up to.
Let’s take a look!
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Saturday 29th May 2021
1st BBQ 
Make a wish 
Bramford 
Dude 
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Sunday 30th May 2021
Tim made a friend 
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Meerkats 
The Woods
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Monday 31st May 2021
Bank holiday cake 
Holywells 
A much needed pit stop on our walk 
Holywells
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Tuesday 1st June 2021
Back in my spot 
Cafe Nero, reading & a treat 
Back to the cinema, with Tim
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Wednesday 2nd June 2021
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Loaded fries
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Thursday 3rd June 2021
Twister 
Natural creativity 
Art in the park 
My boys โก 
The EYFS team 
Lots of drinks
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Friday 4th June 2021
Quiz night 
I-Scream Sundaes 
Primark hoodies to the rescue
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Saturday 5th June 2021
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Sunday 6th June 2021
Giant biscoff & banana pancakes 
Iced Lattes at Cult
How was your Half Term?
What did you get up to??
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
3๏ธโฃ0๏ธโฃ ๐๐
Hi guys ๐๐ป
So, One week ago me and my twin sister turned 30!! The big 3 – 0 as they call it.
Here is how we celebrated!
Birthday Morning
I started off the day with a lovely breakfast in bed, made by my husband.
Followed by cards & pressies ๐ฅฐ
At work I was spoiled with lovely birthday banners, balloons, presents, cards (from the childrem too) & an amazing cake!!!
Birthday Afternoon
Once I had finished work I met my twin sister for lunch at this cute little cafe.
As per restrictions, we took advantage of their lovely little courtyard, and the sunshine.
We enjoyed a delicious lunch and opened our presents to each other.
We then picked up our niece from nursery anfld met up with our husbands and my nephews for a nice little walk and a play in the park.
Birthday Evening
We spent the evening having a little afternoon tea garden party at my parents house.
We enjoyed the delicious treats from my birthday hamper, courtesy of my lovely work friends.
It was lovely to enjoy it with my mum, dad, and two sisters. We havn’t done something just us five, probably in years! It was really nice (& all of the food was delicious.
We had a really fun day!
Other celebrations included…
A tattoo!
Not something I ever thought I’d get…. so exciting!!!
Me and my twin sister talked about it last year but I wasn’t 100% sure I wouldn’t chicken out!
We both LOVE Harry Potter so we went for a simple lightening bolt design โกโก
I love it.
I also enjoyed a fun games night with my friend to celebrate turning 30 (Very 2020) on Zoom, as well as a nice family BBQ meal and board game session the following weekend.
Lovely!
30’s pretty good so far โ๐ป
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
Easter Baking ๐ฃ๐ซ
Hi guys ๐๐ป
I love an excuse to bake and Easter is the perfect one.
Also, I can now eat chocolate again as I gave it up on the 8th of Jan until Good Friday! Horray.
So, here are two Easter bakes that I have made this Easter weekend.
They are super easy, relatively quick and even child friendly.
Let’s take a look!
Chocolate Easter Nests
I surely don’t even need to include a recipe for this Easter classic!?!
This Easter season special is great to do with kids and one of my favourite ‘cakes’ whenever I seem them on sale.
I had to use shredded wheat this time as we already had it in the cupboard but my preference is cornflakes, and of course I used Cadbury chocolate and mini eggs.
Cadbury Creme Egg Brownies
These brownies came out super gooey and were so delicious, especially warm!
I had this ‘Brownie in a jar’ mix from Christmas, that I hadn’t used yet and all you needed to do was add 125g of butter and 2 eggs (whisked together first). Super easy!
I then cut the creme eggs in half and pushed them into the batter, fondant side up.
A brownie recipe that I use alot is a BBC Good Good one, I’ll leave a link here .
What is your favourite Easter bake?
Let me know if you have a go at these.
Have a great Easter Weekend.
Until Next Time,
Roseanne ๐
Roseanne Byford 