Hello everyone, it’s time for this week’s Handmade Monday, 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.

It was my birthday in the week. I had a lovely day, lunch out with my husband and a meal in the evening with friends. I had a homemade cake (the best kind) flowers and some lovely gifts. It seems that people know me well as I was lucky enough to have several craft themed gifts; some colourful washi tape, a wooden printing block, some pretty ribbon (on a large spool which will be perfect for an upcycle once the ribbon is used) and the gorgeous crochet flower garden book by Chris.made.this who I love to follow on Instagram.

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.

Birdz of a Feather have taken a vintage sewing machine that was sadly beyond repair and given it a new life as these wonderful book ends. I love them!

Ann from The Apple Street Cottage shows us how she painted these lovely rocks for a local kindness rock garden.

Kiku Corner shared a recipe for these delicious looking Brigadeiros, Brazilian chocolate fudge balls. YUM!

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