Image from STC Crafts/Melanie Falick Books

Dreaming of a meaningful handmade holiday devoid of stress and panic? Then get crackin'!

STC Crafts/Melanie Falick Books, publisher of beautiful craft books such as Sewing Green, Weekend Sewing and the Gentle Art of Domesticity is providing us crafters with a collection of 20 free patterns from their amazing craft book titles to help jumpstart our holiday crafting. How sweet is that? We all love a gentle reminder.

Meanwhile, my good friend Sonia over at Cozy Homemaking is having a Little Week of Cozy Giveaways. She's now on giveaway day #3! Drop by her cozy blog and say bonjour!

Thank you to all who have entered this week's giveaway sponsored by ETSY shop Flirtbuttons. The giveaway is open until next week so please enter your name if you still haven't. Also visit Sweet Tiding's bevy of fantastic ETSY shop sponsors (please see sidebar) that will be offering exciting and fabulous giveaways in the weeks and months to come (too bad I'm disqualified). These handpicked, highly recommended shops offer the best craft goodies, supplies and gifts for holiday and everyday crafting and gift giving all at great prices! (Translation: Start window shopping now you won't regret it ).

Yay, I can almost smell the weekend. Happy Thursday!