This will sum it up and give us a definition for handmade. It's right there on the tip of everyone's thoughts and not quite touched upon, yet.
Did you put your heart into it? If you did (and you know if you did) it is handmade.
Simple, I like it.
I have also seen videos of a guy dropping trimmings I to boiling water.
Veg will shrink a lot when it hits the water.
I'm not sure if this works with all the different animal species or just cows?