Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Handmade Monday. Handmade Monday is our weekly link up for handmade ideas, crafts and recipes. Creative bloggers can share their tutorials and projects and we can all check out all the ideas and get inspired.

I was lucky enough to attend the Creative Craft Show at the NEC Birmingham on Thursday. I spent most of the day sitting on stands doing “make and take” mini craft workshops while I chatted to other crafters - bliss! I did manage a little bit of shopping as well of course. You can see a little more of the show over on my instagram if you are interested.

Let’s take a look at the features from last week’s Handmade Monday now.

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.

Creatively Beth has made the most adorable pie bunting, intended for Thanksgiving but also perfect for Pie Wednesday (Pie Wednesday was a day celebrated weekly by my daughter and her housemates when they were at University, when they shared a pie for dinner each Wednesday. You can celebrate on any day of course as it’s a totally made up celebration!)

Pillar Box Blue has a fun cork and Christmas card upcycling idea for the Christmas table.

Scratch Made Food for Hungry People has a recipe for a Raisin & Cherry Welsh Tea Cake, a bit of a twist on a Bara Brith, and I LOVE Bara Brith so I’ve put this firmly on my to try list!

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 and is just a nice thing to do!

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

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