Welcome to this week’s Handmade Monday. Handmade Monday is our weekly link up, where creative bloggers can share craft ideas, tutorials, recipes etc. Take a few minutes out of your busy day and enjoy looking through all these creative ideas and inspiration.

I shared photos of our very busy Christmas tree last week. This week I got round to decorating the windows. We don’t put lights in the window because there aren’t any electric sockets nearby so I normally just draw soemthing with chalk markers.

This year I’ve done the row of trees in one window and some holly, ivy and miscellaneous greenery in the other. It’s really hard to photograph well as you can see! I shared some more window decorating ideas in previous years here - Christmas Window Decoration with Chalk Markers, Alternative to Christmas Lights and Festive Mirror Fun.

This will be the last Handmade Monday of 2024. This linky will stay open for 2 weeks and the next Handmade Monday will be on 5th January.

Let’s start by taking a look at 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.

Moois van m(i)e shared a tutorial to make these beautiful beaded earrings.

Walking on Sunshine Recipes has made these super cute snowman marshmallow cupcakes.

Gail from Purple Hues and Me has made a stunning gift bag from ribbon, what a lovely way to make a present extra special.

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