Welcome to Handmade Monday, our link up for all things handmade. Crafts, decor ideas and recipes are all welcome here, if it’s handmade we are happy for you to share it. This is a great place to find a few new creative ideas and inspiration too.

This is our first Handmade Monday for 3 weeks. I took a bit of a break, a few days off at home just to catch up with some things, then we went away for 10 days to the south of Spain. We had a lovely time, super relaxing. Mostly beach and a book with a few naps thrown in! We did meet up with some spanish friends who live not too far from where we were staying which was also really great. I feel really refreshed and ready to do al the things again!

I’ve chosen a few extra features this week to make up for the lack of Handmade Mondays over the last few weeks.

Now let’s take a peek 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.

Beautiful beaded bracelets from My French Twist.

A gorgeous quilted patchwork table runner from Chez Vies.

A lovely free crochet bag pattern from Cre8tion Crochet (love that pop of vibrant pink)

Such a fun gift idea from Artsy Fartsy Mama!

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

Julie