Make It Yours Highlights

56 amazing creative projects were linked up last week!  Such creativity!  It was so much fun looking through all the links!  Here are a few of my favorites.
 
Heather at Fresh Poppy Designs made a beautiful quilt out of vintage looking fabrics.  

 
Two Carolina Nesters transformed an old dresser into a beautiful new dining room sideboard with some gorgeous red paint.

 
Ann Marie at Twice Lovely took a tired old chair and turned it into a thing of beauty. 

 
Jenny at Life, Marriage and Motherhood made this Easter wreath from Dollar Store items. 

 
Jen at Notes from the Heartland spruced up her basement laundry with this ingenious hanging bulletin board.

 
Erin at Chris, Erin and Jayce showed us how to make these super cute Welcome Blocks.

  
Jen at Just for Rachel made this great Pottery Barn knockoff chalkboard platter.  

If you were featured this week, please help yourself to a button! 

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Thank you to everyone who participated!   Come back on Wednesday and link up your latest creation or project.  I’m looking forward to seeing how you Make it Yours when you redo it, revamp it, or remodel it!

Bathroom Makeover

Well, I’m finally done.  My hall bathroom makeover is complete.  No major renovations here, just the use of paint, fabric, wallpaper and recycled items.  I’m really happy with the new look.  It feels fresh and the room seems so much larger.

Here’s the before:


It wasn’t the worst bathroom ever.  11 years ago I had done a faux ragging paint technique that I loved at the time, but now seemed really old and tired.   Everything was rust or brown ~ too dark for my taste today.

Here are a few shots of the finished product:

   


Here’s a look back at my bathroom transformation.  


I decorated with vintage silver.   
   
I made a new extra long shower curtain.

 
I covered up an ugly tissue box with a fabric cover. 

 
I learned to use power tools and installed some great trim.

 
I used spray paint to spruce up a bargain mirror.


I salvaged a broken down medicine cabinet. 


I transformed an old cabinet door with towel hooks. 

 
I tried my hand at installing bead board wall paper.

 
I refinished my bathroom vanity with a sleek black stain.


Finally, I made a new version of Our Family Rules.

Wow, this was a long post.  Thanks for sticking with me through all of these projects!  Onward and upward to the next room….

Check out these blogs for some creative inspiration: Before and After Party at Thrifty Decor Chick, Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Chic Cottage, Strut Your Stuff at Somewhat Simple, Show and Tell at My Romantic Home, Victory of the Week at Design-Aholic,  Share Your Story at Remodelaholic, Funky Junk’s Saturday Nite Special, Weekend Wrapup at Tatertots and Jello, Met Monday at Between Naps on the Porch, Make it for Monday at Cottage Instincts, Making the World Cuter Mondays,  Made it Mondays at the Persimmon Perch,  Just Something I Whipped Up at The Girl Creative, Make Your Monday at Twice Remembered,  Motivate Me Monday at Keeping it Simple, Project Parade at DIY Showoff, Get your Craft On Tuesday at Today’s Creative Blog,  Trash to Treasure Tuesday at Reinvented and DIY Day at A Soft Place to Land, Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design.

Easy Tailored Bed Skirt

I just whipped up this super easy, super cheap tailored bed skirt. 

 
I was tired of looking at all of this stuff peeking out from under the bed.


Here’s a close up just in case you didn’t notice all of the crap important stuff shoved under the bed.  This is hubby’s side of the bed, and in his defense, we have really small closets, so lots of things get stored under the bed. 


I found these window panels at Target on clearance.  They rang up at $1.98 each so I bought three.  They are the perfect, neutral woven fabric.
Here’s how I did it:
  
I cut the panels lengthwise into two 20” by 63” pieces.  I zig zag stitched along the raw edge since they seemed to be unraveling like crazy.  Then I joined them together along the short edge so I had a piece about 20” wide by 124” long.   
 
 
Since the long edge was already hemmed, I didn’t have to hem the edge.  
 
I trimmed off both edges so the ends would be nice and straight.   Then I measured the side of my bed, added 1” for each side hem, and 8” for each pleat, and cut my long fabric piece to this length.  I sewed a 1” hem on each side edge.


This is a really badly drawn diagram of the pleat.  Because the pleat folds back on itself, each 2” pleat adds 8” to the required measurement.  I pressed my pleat and then stitched across the top raw edges to hold it in place.

 
I pinned it directly to my box spring using safety pins.  Couldn’t have been easier.
 
Now everything is hidden away.  So much better!

Looking for more inspiration?  Check out  Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Design, We did it Wednesday at Sew Much Ado, Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Chic Cottage, Get Your Craft on at Life as Lori, Thrifty Thursday at Bloggeritaville, Show and Tell at My Romantic Home, Victory of the Week at Design-Aholic, Frugalicious Friday at Finding Fabulous, Funky Junk’s Saturday Nite Special, Weekend Wrap-up at Tatertots and Jello, and Craft Schooling Sunday at Creative Jewish Mom.

Winner, Winner!

You thought I was going to say “Chicken Dinner”, didn’t you?

The winner of the CSN.com wall clock giveaway is:


Crafty in Paradise! 

Congratulations!   I hope you enjoy your new clock!!

Make it Yours Day!

Welcome back to  Make it Yours Day #5 at My Backyard Eden!  So much creativity was linked up last week!  I can hardly wait to see what’s in store this week!

Show us how you added your own special spin when you redid it, revamped it or remodeled it.  Organized something?  Created or updated?  Cooked, sewed or decorated something new?   How’d you make it yours?

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When you link up your project make sure to:  

1. Link to your specific post, not the main page of your blog, so people can easily find your project.
2. Add the button above to your post, or at least link back to this party from your post so everyone can follow along.  

Each week I will highlight a few of my favorite posts from the links submitted, so check back and see if the spotlight is on you!  Thanks so much for linking up!

So, how’d you make it yours this week?  Let’s see those projects!

Easy Weeknight Dinner - Frittata

This is one of my go to recipes for weeknight dinners.  I usually have the ingredients on hand and it’s easy to put together.

 

Spinach and Potato Frittata

2 T Olive Oil
6-8 small red potatoes, sliced 
2 cups torn fresh spinach
3 green onions, sliced
3 cloves garlic, chopped
~1/4 pound  Canadian bacon, diced (I’ve also used leftover bacon or sausage, both good!)
6 eggs, beaten
1/3 cup milk
1/2 cup shredded cheese
salt and pepper to taste,
crushed red pepper flakes to taste

 
Heat oil in large skillet over medium heat.  Add potatoes, cover and cook about 10 minutes until just tender.

 


Add spinach, green onions, garlic and Canadian bacon.  Season with salt and pepper.  Add pepper flakes for your desired level of heat.


 
Continue cooking while stirring for 2 minutes.

 

Add milk to beaten eggs and pour over mixture.  Sprinkle with cheese.  Reduce heat to low, cover and cook for 5-7 minutes.




When eggs are mostly set, place under broiler until top is nicely browned. 

Enjoy!

Pop in to the following great blogs to see what’s cooking this week:  Tasty Tuesday at Beauty and Bedlam, Tempt My Tummy Tuesday at Blessed with Grace,  and Thursday Ultimate Recipe Swap at Life as Mom.

Make it Yours Highlights #4

49 amazing projects were linked up to Make It Yours day last week!  You all are so inspiring and industrious!
 

It was so hard to choose, but here are a few highlights from the great projects linked up last week.
 


Keepin the Castle gave us a tutorial on how to make this super cute and handy sewing machine cover.  I love this fabric!  My sewing machine definitely needs one of these!


Meg at a Little Knick Knack shared her embellished sweater pillows!  Love the argyle! 

 
Jen at Moments in Time created this gorgeous magnetic memo board out of clearance item at Home Goods!   Chalkboard and magnetic memo board in one!


Amy at Design-Aholic made this Easter Egg tree!  Very festive and pretty.  I know that my kids and I will be doing this project in the next week or two! 


Alissa at 33 Shades of Green made this really cute Heart Art.  Wouldn’t this be cute in a child’s bedroom? 


Jamee over at Homemaker made these bleach stenciled t-shirts.  So simple, and so cute!

Thank you to everyone who participated!   Come back on Wednesday and link up your latest creation or project.  Show us how you Make it Yours when you redo it, revamp it, or remodel it!