I have a new free crochet pattern today for this Gingerbread Christmas Stocking over at Skip To My Lou for their huge Bake Craft Sew & Crochet Along! Don’t forget that Skip To My Lou is also running a giveaway for a $300 gift certificate at Michaels!

I also plan to post a video tutorial for this in 2 weeks, so stay tuned!

Don’t forget that I have a free pattern for a Turkey Tissue Box cozy with cute lil veggies and a lettuce dish cloth! I’ll be filming a tutorial for the drumstick and posting it this week!

Also for those of us less inclined to crochet any turkey-related accessories, we have our Turkey Hat available for sale over at Yummy You!

Today I’m over at Skip to My Lou as part of the Bake Craft Sew & Crochet Along. I am sharing a wonderful crochet pattern perfect for holiday gift giving. In fact, you won’t want to miss all the handmade gift ideas! I have joined over 100 bloggers to share some amazing homemade gift ideas……..AND I get to be part of an amazing giveaway too. Keep reading…

You can enter to win a $300 Michaels gift card. Yes, you can buy yarn until your heart is content! Follow along with us and you can enter to win each day!

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Yesterday, I got a fun little surprise in the mail: HAPPY MAIL! It’s the new monthly stationery club from my fave gals Elsie & Emma from A Beautiful Mess (they also recently launched a new shop filled with tons of crafting supplies plus their new craft line, bee tee dubs!).

You can tell that I’m kind of really into their mailer! Let’s check out what’s inside!

I already started getting the happy feels upon opening my hand-written card! When I was little, I tried to get Manda to be my pen pal, but she never mailed me anything! Granted, she did GIVE me some letters when I saw her, BUT STILL. Anyway, I admit, that I am really bad at the lost art of letter-writing and card-sending. My friend Cuppy is like The Queen of Card-Sending, and I think it’s really lovely, and I wish I had my ish together enough to send some random mail-love to my favorite people.

For $15/month, you get a$50 retail value of fun and colorful cards, tags, stickers, labels, notepads, and even a print! The gals put together a little video to show you everything you get.

As a person who does not collect cards or stationery or very much paper goods, I’m kind of excited to have this little collection to play with! It’s giving me a push to send someone a surprise. Who would you send a fun card to?

I drink tea all day long. My favorite non-caffeinated version is Almond Coconut Macaron Rooibos Tea from the Republic of Tea, and I probably average 3 bags a day. For a sweeter and more caffeinated kick, I’m all about PG Tips and French vanilla creamer. This all means that I use coasters A LOT. We have had a lot of cute coaster sets, but the ones we’ve had lately are either plastic or laminated or cork, and sometimes they stick to the bottom of my cups and then come clattering off at some annoying point in time. I then started hunting for felt coasters.

I know I KNOW. I could just crochet myself some coasters, but sometimes I just feel like shopping and supporting other handmade artists, too! That’s how I found Dandyrions and her adorable bear coasters. They come on all colors, and some have accessories, like eyeglasses, or, a fish in the mouth. I can’t wait for my set to come in and cuddle all my tea mugs!

Here are some other coasters that I liked as well on Etsy.

I very nearly bought this set of bally coasters before finding the bears. These are by NomiMakes.

I also liked the colors and funky shapes of these guys from BeansAndThreads.

And finally, you can’t go wrong with some crocheted coasters in this house. These cheery fruits are from Portuli.

OOOOOH I just thought of a cute pattern for coasters involving sparkle yarn…. stay tuned!