Welcome to the Spark a Smile blog! Check here for projects we’ve created, inspirational ideas, and stories about our mission to spark smiles in our community!
This month, in honor of my grandma (the face of Spark a Smile) who will need hospice care someday, we created Mother’s Day cards for Hospice Compassus of Casa Grande. Miss Marlene and I had been browsing Pinterest (feel free to follow me!) and created these inspirational samples, but I …
We helped the Pinal County Juvenile Court celebrate National Volunteer Month by donating 150 of these fun cards! We went with an “April showers” theme. These are probably my favorite of all the cards we’ve done in our 2.5 years of sparking smiles! I love these bright, happy colors! The …
We’ve decided to migrate the Spark a Smile blog from Blogger (blogspot) to WordPress (highly recommended by this guy)! Bear with us while we make the big move…
For Spark a Smile (March) we created cards for the Casa Grande Youth Commission and the Garden of Sunshine Youth Memorial Garden. To honor the Eide children who passed away in an accident during a dust storm in 2009, the Youth Commission is raising funds to create a special place …
We had a small group in February, but we still had some good conversation and great laughs! Look at these cute little Valentines tags we made. We attached them to toothbrushes and handed them out to random people. 🙂 Were you a recipient of our random act of kindness? Let …
We kicked off our first SAS of the New Year by saying “Thanks” to the employees at the Casa Grande Regional Medical Center. We had another new face: Miss Valerie! She fit right in, doling out silly craft jokes. And, she loves glitter!! We like her already!! It was a …
Spark a Smile kicked off December’s whirlwind holiday season with spinning cards for the Garnet Assisted Living Home! Miss Jane brought us this great technique for a spinning, interactive card. Here are three of the 127 hand-crafted cards we made (click here to see the rest!). If you tilt the …
Look what we made for Thanksgiving! We made “dessert” for 300+ people who were served Thanksgiving dinner by Seeds of Hope, St. Vincent’s, Salvation Army, and a few other organizations. We had a LOT of help in creating our 400+ Orbit gum toppers. Miss Marlene used her Cuttlebug to cut …
Spark a Smile returns this Wednesday, November 9, from 5-7 PM, just in time for the holiday season! We took a short hiatus from September to October for a pretty sweet reason: Our little sweet pea, Philip Horsley III, was born September 11th! It’s a lot of hard work, but …
Hot July in Arizona usually makes everyone run for the San Diego beach, so last month we had our own little tropical getaway by staying close to the air conditioning and dreaming of waves! Here are some of the cards we made. Click here to see the rest! These cute …