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At DIY Weddings we love to share ideas, inpsirations, products and more for the creative bride! If you have a blog post, tutorial, website, or shop that you would like to see featured at Craft Gossip, please add your link to our latest linky party! There were so many great entries last week and I’m highlighting 3 randomly chosen party guests today.

First is a pretty glass pearl necklace with an organza flower embellishment. You’ll find a great tutorial for making your own at Creative Mind.

Love these sparkly pink earrings from the Etsy shop Flower and Bud! This shop offers handcrafted jewelry and accepts custom orders. Perfect as gifts for a bride or her bridal party!

The third featured guest is Stephanie Severin of Ingenious Inkling. She created a gorgeous wedding cake card that looks good enough to eat!

Many thanks to my featured guests and to everyone else who joined our party last week! Time to start the festivities anew, so please join us by adding your link below. I can’t wait to be inspired by your creations!

1. Gwendolyn Cupcake Stand

2. Branding Your Wedding

3. Wedding corset

4. Ring Bearer Pillow

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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.

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