Every year, I promise myself that I’ll decorate our condo for Ramadan. And every year, I get bogged down with making samosas, patties, and kabobs instead. Miraculously, this year I managed to do both freezer prep and a little artsy fartsy decorating. In this post, I’m sharing a few simple ways I decorated our home for Ramadan, the holiest month of the Islamic calendar.

A few weeks ago, we had another big fat Bollywood wedding in the family! My older brother-in-law tied the knot, and it was a beautiful, emotional event (mashAllah) full of bhangra, delicious food, and moving speeches. South Asian weddings are not one or two-day events. Oh no - our weddings are weeks-long celebrations that include duas (communal prayers for the couple) and dholkis (dance parties at aunties’ houses) that lead up to the main wedding events.

I have a slight obsession with lanterns that may or may not have stemmed from the lantern scene in Tangled. I incorporated big, colorful lanterns into my mehndi (henna) night decor and I have faceted lanterns full of candles and lights around my home. I also made a string of paper lanterns for my Eid party - and that’s what this post is all about! Here’s a simple tutorial on how to make hanging paper lanterns to jazz up your next event. You may have made these lanterns in school during arts and crafts, but now it’s time to make them the adult way with fancy pants paper and hot glue (#adulting).