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And the winner of the Kindle is ….

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Amazon Kindle Winner on CraftGossip

But first, some stats 🙂

Terrific response to our call to get us to 10000 fans before the 10th of March. We started this giveaway on the 22nd of Feb and after extending the end date by one day to 11th of March (due to server downtime), we reached the goal. We went from 8400 fans to 10102! That is around 95 new fans a day!

Thank you to everyone who entered. The condition of the giveaway was that you had to link to your Facebook profile (after liking our Facebook page) in the comment section of the giveaway post. We got 1006 entries. So, 1 in 10 fans actually applied to be in the giveaway.

After checking everything, and then checking some more, the winner is.. comment no. 875. Congratulations to Regina @ Chalk In My Pocket!

Regina, you have 5 days to contact us at [email protected] with your mailing address after which we will draw a new winner.

Thank you everyone and watch out as we have some great giveaways planned for the National Craft Month, including a new sewing machine fromJanome! That giveaway will start in the last week of this month.

Comments

  1. Congrats Regina on winning the kindle and a Big Congrats to Craft Gossip for reaching over 10000 likes. This site is the best!!!!! LOVE IT!

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Book Review: The Festival of Lights

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations. 

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day. 

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.  

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita. 

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live. 

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience. 

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.