Welcome to Handmade Monday no 300! Wowza! How did we get to 300 so quickly? I feel simultaneously that I’ve been hosting the Handmade Monday creative link up for forever and for no time at all!

I am starting to think about Christmas crafting now, it’s only once our daughter’s birthday at the end of October is past I feel that I can turn my thoughts to Christmas.

It’s the Sustainable Pinterest Challenge this coming week and our theme will be Christmas so stay tuned for some upcycled, recycled, and sustainable living festive ideas on Tuesday. I’ve been snipping some Christmassy words from an old magazine page for my project.

Now let’s take a look at the features from last week’s Handmade Monday. Click through on the photos to see the original posts.

• Please remember if you want to pin any of these ideas please make sure you click through via the photo to the original project.

I love this crochet beanie from Cre8tion Crochet, the free pattern is available in lots of different sizes too.

Picture Box Blue shows us a really quick and reliable way to transfer printed images onto wood, plus these free to download bird images are really beautiful.

Southern Sunflowers gave an old step stool such a pretty makeover. Isn’t it gorgeous?

Congratulations to you all There is a "YAY I was featured" button over here if you want to add one to your blog.

A like on social media, a comment or share is an easy way for us all to help to support one another so please do take a moment to visit some of the other projects linked up this week. It’s not mandatory to be able to join in here, there’s no easy way to check if you did but it costs nothing but a few minutes of your time.

The rules for Handmade Monday are very simple:

• Did you make it? Yes - then yay! We'd love to see it

• Add the link to a specific post, not your main blog url

• You can link up to 3 posts each week but try to make sure it's not something that you've shared here before

• Mingle - visit some other links - comment - share - be social

CAN I REMIND EVERYONE THAT HANDMADE MONDAY IS NOT A PLACE FOR SELLING SO NO LINKS TO ETSY OR OTHER SELLING PAGES, THEY WILL ALWAYS BE REMOVED. THANKS

If you are not sure of anything more details can be found here.

At Handmade Monday the links are shown in a random order so it’ll look different each time you pop by.

Julie