I'm back!!!| Amber Lane Living
I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing weekend! When we have nice long weekends I think to think to myself "D, how can you make a perfectly good weekend stressful and un relaxing?!?!?"| Amber Lane Living
This post isn't really about decorating, but I wanted to share a story.| Amber Lane Living
When we first moved in to Ms. Amber, the first thing I wanted to tackle was the front porch... I was going for spring/summer vibe but now looking back, I'm going to call that a BIG PROJECT FAIL!! Notice how I can't even keep the flowers alive?| Amber Lane Living
The other day while I was watching HGTV, there was a quick tutorial on how to make a "Outside chess set". It was a huge life size chess set that involved lots of grass squares, concrete, and ginormous chess pieces... I thought it was super cool, but Mr. Husband would never let me rip up our back yard. So I thought I would try and make one to put in our front porch on top of a table, so it could turn in to a "chess table" : )| Amber Lane Living
I love how my new years resolution was to be a better blogger... and that didn't turn out too well. It's been crazy in the Schulman household with lots of fun and new exciting changes! Sometimes I feel like I can't keep up with everything, and on top of it, I'm on a computer for at least 8 hours a day... The last thing I want to do is come home and use it for another hour or two... so it turns out I'm a much better blog reader than I am a blog poster :)| Amber Lane Living
First off, Mr. Husband is sitting next to my while I'm writing this post, and he said that I can't call this Spring Cleaning because it's not Spring yet.| Amber Lane Living
Happy Sunday!!| Amber Lane Living
Can you believe this will be my 2nd post in less than two weeks!?!?..... I haven't done that for a while! It's one of my new years resolutions.... I want to get in to a routine where I blog at least once a week. I have so many projects that never get posted because blogger just takes sooooo loooong to post and I clearly don't have the patience... I hope everyone else shares my frustrations!| Amber Lane Living
I can't believe it's been a month since the last post! I hope everyone is off to a wonderful new year! December was a super busy month for us, but it was so much fun having our first Christmas season in our new home. Much to Mr. Husband's dismay, I have so many projects planned for the Ms. Amber, one of which I started and actually completed in one day!| Amber Lane Living
Something I’ve been super excited about since getting married is being able to FINALLY send out Christmas Cards! I was going to originally hand make them like I do everything else, but I decided this year to leave it to the pros, and finally give myself a break for once. Besides, if I did decide to do them, they would probably get put on the back burner and never even get sent out! (How do I know this??? Because it took me 3 months to mail out our wedding “Thank you” cards : ) )| Amber Lane Living
I have had this wreath in my mind forever, and this past week, I was finally able to work on it. Thank goodness for long weekends!| Amber Lane Living
I can't believe it's finally here.... After a couple of months of buying supplies, decorations, ornaments, glitter, paint, fabric, etc. etc. etc, it is finally time to decorate! I was too excited to wait until the Friday after Thanksgiving, so I decided to start putting our tree together at almost 9:00 at night on Thanksgiving :)| Amber Lane Living
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I wasn't going to post this, because it really has nothing to do with crafting, but I just had to get the word out about Alton Brown's Turkey recipe.| Amber Lane Living
This was my first weekend of Chistmas preparation. Mr.Husband and I will be busy one of the weekends between now and Thanksgiving, which means I only have 2 weekends left to get prepared!| Amber Lane Living
If it seems like I haven't been a good blog poster lately it's because I haven't.... and it kills me to say that!! But I know it was worth it, because we finally finished our backyard! We finished last weekend, and laying the sod was the hardest part (in my opinion) of the entire process.... (go here to see where we started!)| Amber Lane Living
Okay ladies...| Amber Lane Living
This project was so easy, everyone should do it. Seriously... it will make you smile when you blog (if you use a mouse:) )| Amber Lane Living
While shopping for "officle" decorations, I came across this lonely rug. You know how I knew she was lonely? She was on clearance for $2 ....| Amber Lane Living
I can't believe it's been almost two weeks since my last post! Hopefully that won't happen again. This new job has had me working during the day and then coming home to learn more about material I needed to know at night, so needless to say the fun stuff got put on hold :(| Amber Lane Living
For about that past month and a half, I've been a little bit stressed out with a job I was applying for at work. My parents had always made the mistake when I was growing up by bribing me with a certain amount of money for every "A" I had gotten on a report card. So now, whenever I do something good or have a accomplishment, I feel like I need to be rewarded....| Amber Lane Living
After finishing the Autumn Tree for the porch, I still wasn't happy with how it was looking. I do still plan on adding some fake hay and pumpkins, and also switching out the chair covers.... but it's still missing a little something...| Amber Lane Living
So, as part of the guest room re-do, I've been on the hunt for a side table... and look what I picked up.... for $12!! I loved the curves of the legs, and it has some pretty awesome detailing... perfect for some glazing!| Amber Lane Living
I'm so excited to decorate (for the first time) for fall! My house was basically made to be decorated for fall because of all of the warm colors we have:) I'll probably only be doing a couple of projects because I want my house to "barf" Christmas... so I'd rather use my craft budget for Christmas projects this year. Nevertheless, I'm still going to decorate just a bit!| Amber Lane Living
Watching the VMA's... and Lady gaga just made her acceptance speech...| Amber Lane Living