Welcome to Handmade Monday no.314. Handmade Monday is our link up for handmade ideas, crafts and recipes. Creative bloggers can share their tutorials and projects and we can all be inspired.

This week I hosted the Sustainable Craft Challenge and my contribution was this laundry powder container repurposed as a string dispenser.

The Sustainable Craft Challenge is a monthly challenge for bloggers where we take a theme and then share an idea for a craft that brings an eco friendly, sustainable twist. It can be an upcycle, a repurpose or as simple as just using what you already have instead of always buying more. If any creative bloggers would like to join us do drop me a line for more details: sumoftheirstories(at)gmail(dot)com

Enough about me, now let’s take a look at the features now from last week’s Handmade Monday . Click through on the photos to see the original posts.

• 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 painted mushroom pot from Love my Little Cottage.

Cindy’s Online Recipe Box has shared these delicious looking Peppermint Patty Candies. I confess I thought Peppermint Patty was just a Peanuts character! Here in the UK we call these Peppermint creams, just another name that is different across the pond for me to add to my list!

Catrin from Eggsclusiv has made some fun fancy dress costumes for an upcoming festival, I love this ladybird costume.

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