Citrus and such

Can I just say that I looooove the weekend? It's the best part of me week, every week. 

We cleaned yesterday (the house needed it so very badly) and then sat ourselves down to a lovely meal of oven roasted potatoes (tossed in 21 season salute, oil and salt) and some large homemade meatballs. It was divine. And for dessert we had the last of the chocolate chip cookie pie with ice cream. Mmm... Sorry, no pictures though! (Too tired after all that cleaning!)

Let me share that new stuff I promised in my last post! :)

New Christmas star, from Ikea. It's red and gorgeous and casts stars all over the room in the dark. :)

There is my new valance, Vallila "punaposki". I have been searching for quite a while for some apple-themed curtains for the kitchen, but the fabrics I wanted were kind of expensive and I would have had to have sewn it myself. That's why I was so happy to find these -- and they were on sale! :)

I finally bought one of these from Ikea! I have wanted a tier plate for serving baked good and other goodies at parties! I plan to use it to serve cookies at the upcoming Christmas party I am having!

These are two of the frames we bought...we're finally hanging up some of our Japan honeymoon pictures! Yaaay! (these are going above this couch with a picture shelf from ikea)

Randomly on to the next topic...

The hubby and I made these this morning since we were having company in the afternoon.

They are raspberry lemonade bars from Annie's Eats. If you haven't checked out this blog, now is the time! I love it! Really do-able recipes and very inspiring. :) Unfortunately for us, we had just a bit too little raspberry to work with, so they didn't come out as gooey as I would have hoped, still tasty though! 

By the way, I served these with whipped cream on the side, too!

Using lemonade as a segue way...

I've also been very into citrus still lifes. Please forgive me for the onslaught of citrus. Lol!

Can you tell I have been reading up on photography and trying to use the camera to its fullest potential? I guess you can expect to see more random and spontaneous photo shoot shots.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy your weekend!