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Get ready to spin the disco ball and dance to the beats in Hitster Bingo! Spin the disco ball to reveal the category, scan the card, and let the music play. Guess the decade, identify singers or bands, choose the exact year, or determine if it is before or after the 2000s. Be the first to complete a row or column with the four different categories to be crowned the Hitster Bingo Champion!

Features:

• PARTY GAME: Bingo for adults from 16 years old, for 2 to 10 players
• EASY PLAY: The easy rules of the game allow you to start the game quickly
• BINGO HITS: The best bingo hits all in one game
• DIFFERENT LEVELS: There are two different playing fields, are you going for the easy start or the pro?
• CONTENT: 300 music cards, 37 hitster tokens, free Hitster app

Hitster Music Bingo is available exclusively available at Walmart for $29.97. It is already online (use my affiliate link to buy it now!) and will be in-stores August 22! 

I am afraid my music knowledge started last century, so I may be in the grandma’s category!

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Our final Christmas in July advent calendar review is of the largest advent calendar in the series. Diamond Art Club, who also created an annual calendar (which we reviewed last December: https://www.gaynycdad.com/2025/12/diamond-art-club.html), also has an advent calendar: 12 Days at the Sparkling Gift Shop. And it is huge!

If you haven’t experienced diamond painting yet (or read my previous review, linked above), diamond painting is an art craft, where you affix colored “diamonds” to a patterned canvas. It’s not quite 3-dimensional, though there are 3D kits, but it does add an interesting texture and sparkly effect to the image. For the advent calendar, Diamond Art Club has curated a collection of 12 diamond painting items, including tools, kits, diamonds, etc., each of which fits the Christmas theme.

What’s in the box?

The Diamond Art Club 12 Days at the Sparkling Gift Shop advent calendar is a 12-day calendar that opens like a book to reveal a shop with shelves of gifts. It even has an ice-blue ribbon to hold it closed. The reason it is so big is that it includes full-sized items in every window! Some windows hold tools, including Christmas-themed tools, gems, washi tape, and cover minders, and others hold diamond painting kits. Not every diamond painting kit in the advent calendar includes the tool kit (which includes the drill pen, tray, and wax), so be sure to open the windows in order. The first full diamond painting kit, which is in Day 2’s window, includes the tool kit, so you can use it with the kits that don’t have one.

The Day 2 kit includes diamonds, the tool kit (which includes the diamond-setting wand, plus a 7-diamond attachment, two pieces of diamond wax (a clear rectangle and a red heart), some small zipper lock bags (for holding the open diamond bags and/or leftover diamonds), and a stacking tray to hold the diamonds while you apply them to the image), stickers for each of the different-colored gems (so you can tell them apart once they are in the zipper lock bags), plus some bonus stickers of the images in the canvases.

The Diamond Art Club 12 Days at the Sparkling Gift Shop doesn’t have an age limit, but there are enough small items (larger than the diamonds, but still small enough to swallow) that you should supervise your littles, if they’re working on the diamond paintings, too, or even just watching you work. The Diamond Art Club 12 Days at the Sparkling Gift Shop Advent Calendar is a great gift for all levels of diamond painters, from beginner to expert. There are small projects and two full-sized Christmas-themed canvases, so you’ll have plenty of diamond painting, enough to share if you’ve got a big family. At least two of the kits have multiple components (for example, there’s a set of six coasters), so it would be a great family activity.

TOP TIP: Diamond Art Club diamond painting kits are made for chunking! I wrote about chunking in my 2025 single parent holiday gift guides. Chunking is breaking down larger crafts, puzzles, etc., into smaller sections that you can complete in one sitting. You can choose a section or a color at a time, then replace the plastic cover and come back to it later. The Diamond Art Club 12 Days at the Sparkling Gift Shop advent calendar is a great gift for all the single parents on your list, especially if they have older children they can share the calendar with!

Thank you for following along on our Christmas in July advent calendar series! For more advent calendar reviews, come back in late September/early October when we’ll begin our fall advent calendar series.

https://www.diamondartclub.com/products/2025-advent-calendar

٭٭٭٭٭Highly Recommended

Here are the other Christmas in July Advent Calendar Reviews:

Andy Warhol Christmas Countdown

Plus-Plus Advent Calendar Review

Coffee and Tea Junkie

Fine Art Christmas Advent Calendar Review

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Maybe the best Spider‑Man movie ever, and certainly the most mature. Buy your tickets now!

Tom Holland continues to be the heartbeat of the Spider‑Man franchise. Every time he steps into the suit, he brings Peter Parker to life with a sincerity and energy that makes the character feel fresh again. He’s phenomenal.

Four years have passed since Peter made the impossible choice to have the world forget him—protecting the people he loves at the cost of his own connections. Now he’s a true loner, spending his days and nights responding to police alerts and obsessively upgrading his tech. On the surface, he’s thriving as New York’s full‑time protector. Inside, the isolation is wearing him down, and the lack of personal growth is becoming its own quiet villain. We also see Spider-Man evolving physically, see the movie for that exciting turn of events!

Speaking of villains: the threat in this film is literally invisible at first. Spider‑Man reluctantly teams up with The Punisher (Jon Bernthal), and their dynamic becomes one of the movie’s most surprising strengths. Watching a genuine friendship form between two characters who should never get along is a treat—and Marvel crossovers never disappoint.

Sadie Sink’s role? Not telling. No spoilers. But she delivers moments that will absolutely blow you away and set the stage for future Marvel storylines.

This is a brand‑new day for Peter Parker. Fighting crime in a world that doesn’t remember him, watching his old friends move forward without him, and facing a threat no one can see pushes Peter toward a transformation he may not be able to control. Ironically, that change might be the only thing capable of saving the city—and the people he still loves from afar.

Honestly, this might be the strongest Spider‑Man film yet. The character growth, the emotional weight, the storyline, and the performances all come together to create something heartfelt, thrilling, and deeply human. It’s an installment that resonates on multiple levels.

Cast:
Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando, Mark Ruffalo, and Florence Pugh!

Buy tickets now!

Florecnce Pugh reprises her role as Yelena Belova in this film, every effort to maintain the Marvel storyline is well appreciated:

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Robin M. won the $15 Lululemon Gift Card Giveaway!

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