Mosaic Heaven…Check This Out!!

Loving the mosaic! And I’ve found some high end designer mosaic eye candy that is making me crazy. A couple of years ago I found myself in Pam Beach. As I sat in my hotel room at The Breakers Hotel I was looking through a couple of the local magazines a drooled over the mosaic wall in a particular photo shoot. I thought, I’d love to create things like this…still want to. So in my search of the internets to find something interesting to share with all of you I found the company that produced that wall of beauty. Check out the web site of Bisazza Mosaico.

Now, this company is about interiors. Grand interiors. This isn’t necessarily about the crafty side of mosaic…this is definitely the chic side of mosaic. Not to put down the crafty side, I love the crafty side. But I really love the luscious luxurious mosaic these italian artists produce. Check out their other site…and check out the way I found them, through this designer, Marcel Wanders coffee table he made in conjuction with Bisazza.

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.

Have you read?