Hello everyone, and welcome to another Handmade Monday. 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.

We are back home now after our holiday. Most of the trip was visiting family and friends in North America so I’m not going to share lots of photos here of them all of course! However we had a “mini holiday in a holiday” with a couple of days on the Rocky Mountaineer train between Vancouver and Banff. Super fancy and a bit of a trip of a lifetime kind of thing but totally amazing. Here’s just 3 of the hundreds of photos we took.

At the end of the train trip we had a day in Banff and saw some wonderful art in an Art in Nature Trail.

Enough about me and my break, now let’s take a look at the features from last week’s Handmade Monday. I promised extra features to make up for the long break since the last Handmade Monday so here we go:

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.

Andrea from Naehbegeisterte has made some beautiful stationery with the swallow stamp she made.

Marie Jose from El Inventario de MJ has made pretty bracelets from the hems of denim jeans, aren’t they sweet?

Wendy from WM Design House turned salvaged picket fence into a pretty easel for her garden.

Another brilliant denim upcycle from Claire at Pillar Box Blue, these mushroom painted pockets are so clever.

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