Hi and big welcome to Handmade Monday 323. 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 the ideas and get inspired.

I don’t find people use the message functions over on Pinterest very often but now and again I get a message and some feedback. The other day I got this lovely message left on a pin to make a simple drawstring bag for a bride. I’d originally made a bag like this for myself when we got married over 30 years ago and then recreated it and wrote the pattern up for the blog when my cousin got married a few years ago.

Let’s take 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.

Ann from The Apple Street Cottage had a few issues along the way with this chopping board upcycling project but it all turned out beautifully in the end.

Mel from Decor Craft Design has transformed an old Pringles can into this lovely vibrant spring container. I love Pringles although we normally only have them at Christmas and for parties, this seems like a good excuse to treat myself to some!

Such a beautiful daisy wreath from Creatively Beth.

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