Hi everyone and a big but slightly belated welcome to another Handmade Monday.

I’m so sorry that this week’s Handmade Monday is a little late. I had every intention of being on time but we had a trip down to London yesterday to visit our youngest son. We had a really lovely time but the weather was SO hot (we had a early mini heat wave here this week) and following a train cancellation causing last minute change of travel plans/travel balls up by the time I got home in the evening I was so tired I just went to bed! Hopefully you all subscribe to the “better late than never” mindset.

Let’s check out the features 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.

Get ready for summer with this beautiful strawberry cross stitch design from Pe Tra.

I’m a huge Star Wars fan (have been since I was 7 and had to queue for hours outside the cinema to see the first film!) so I love this wax resist art idea from Fun-a-day.

WM Design House created the most adorable flowerpot effect napkin rings, perfect for a garden party.

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