Welcome to Handmade Monday no 306. Handmade Monday is a link up for handmade crafts and recipes. Creative bloggers can share their tutorials and ideas and we can all be inspired.

This is the punched tin lantern that I made for the Sustainable Pinterest Challenge this week. Last week I mentioned how good my family are at putting up with random half made craft projects scattered around the house but my husband really made me laugh this morning. We were talking about Instagram for some reason, he has an account but rarely ever check it. This morning though he started scrolling through my feed and spotted this lantern. “That’s nice,” he said, “did you make it? What did you do with it?” This tealight lantern has been sitting on our kitchen windowsill for a full 7 days now!

Now let’s take a look 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.

WM Design House shared these beautiful scented wax sachets that look so pretty, what a lovely gift they would make.

Niky from The House on Silverado updated this flower pot with paint and some beautiful transfers. Perfect for this magnificent poinsettia!

Frau Tschi Tschi has used her lovely crochet mistletoe pattern to decorate gifts this year; so, so sweet.

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