Today’s holiday post is about hand-made coasters. As a host or hostess this holiday season, you will need some festive coasters for your guests’ drinks. Here are some of my favorites from Etsy crafters and designers.

Amy at Craftchi has these fun coasters. They are collage on tile and are $15 for a set of six. I like these four styles: Paris, Leafy, Tiffany and Victorian.

Sidney Ann has many different patterns to choose from. These coasters are glass with soldered edges and are $30 for a set of 4. Here are some styles in polka dots, flowers and paisleys and they are made from paper or vintage scarves or wallpaper.

The coasters from Mirrorgirl are designed by several different designers and are printed on mousepad material. See these fun designs by Susie Ghahremani of boygirlparty, Jill Bliss of blissen.com, Heidi Kenney of My Paper Crane and one of my favorite Etsy artists, Ashleyg. They come in a matching tin and are 6 for $16.

Littletilegnome makes decoupaged tile coasters and has over 500 styles available! They are available in sets of 4 for $10.00. Here are a few of their holiday styles and their other fun styles.

I wanted to give a shout out to some wonderful photographers I found on the Flickr.
This sweet lemon is taken by zerjavca.

I used this image for my favicon. It is just a simple, clean lemon and is just perfect. zerjavca is from Slovenia and you can see her other photos here.

This bright and cheery flower photo just makes my day!

pasilaly kindly allowed me to use this in the header of my blog. She is another great photographer on Flickr. Look at more of her flowers and landscapes here.

a.rud.beth took this gorgeous photo of a lemon slice. Wow! I love it! Check out her other pictures of fruit here. They will keep you cool this summer.

This beautiful photo is taken by my friend Angela, known as Twinmama on Flickr.
She takes glorious photos of her twins and of landscapes. They are dreamy and moody and I think she is very talented. See for yourself here. You can also read more about Angela on her blog slolane.

Also, if you want to have fun, explore flickr by typing in any topic you are interested in, or clicking on one of their tags. You will see millions of gorgeous photos of amazing people, places and things!