Hello everyone, it’s Handmade Monday time! I’m so sorry that Handmade Monday is a little late this week. I’ve been to a craft fair with my friends today, we had quite an early start and I’m afraid to say when I got home this afternoon I fell asleep just as I should have been publishing Handmade Monday for you all! Whoops!

The fair was at a rather beautiful old manor house in Leicestershire called Beaumanor Hall, just look at their gorgeous staircase! All very Downton Abbey, except now it’s a wedding venue and conference centre of course!

Anyway, better late than never and with no more ado let’s take a look at the features from last week’s Handmade Monday now.

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.

Teresa from Keeping it Real made this lovely reusable gift bag for a colleague using a beautiful piece of eyelet lace. I love reusable gift bags, they make so much sense. Even paper or card gift bags can be used over and over again but a fabric bag is so long lasting.

Lisa from Fresh Vintage by Lisa S has made these super super cute little book ornaments. Did I mention they are super cute?

This upcycled cabinet door and drinks can art from Birdz of a Feather is just stunning.

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