Spark Creativity Journey in SLC

I have a very cool new creative event to share with you today. I just learned about Spark. I can’t think of a better way to describe it than the way they do on the Spark blog: Spark is a two day creativity journey geared to energize, enthuse and SPARK your individual creative spirit and vision. Spark is for all creative women. Spark is for women who create in any way. Spark is for artists, for photographers, for musicians, for writers, for gardners, for decorators, for poets… Spark is for all types of creative women. As women we have a creative Spark within us, at Spark the Event we will cultivate, learn, share, extend, develop and be inspired to live a life creative…

*Spark*
Date: November 6 & 7th 2009
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah
@ This Is The Place Venue
2601 East Sunnyside Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah

Friday: November 6th
Welcome to Spark! 12:00 p.m. ~Registration
1:30-5 p.m.~ Show & Tell:
**Spark your creativity with several artisans’ demonstrating their talents with hands-on mini class demos from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
dinner 7-8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m. Let the Shenanigans begin! Fun filled evening that will help you get your Spark on!
Let the party continue til midnight including our Spark Train, Get to know each other games & photo booth fun!

Saturday: November 7th
9:00 a.m.~ Amazing Keynote Speaker: Cassandra Barney.
A woman artist who speaks to our creative souls! We are sure she will Spark our creative spirits! We can’t wait!

10-6 p.m.~ 4 fabulous classes
(Including lunch and snacks)
Dinner
8:00 Show & Tell & a culminating fireside to Kindle the Spark!

Venue: This is the Place Venue
2601 East Sunnyside Ave
Salt Lake City, Utah

Cost: $300
Includes all Spark creative goodness for the 4 classes, goodie bag, all your food and snacks for both days.
(Hotel will be extra.)

Mason jars are fun to craft with, use for storage or even use to hold gifts like baking mixes or sugar scrubs. But you can make your jars even cuter — no matter what you’re using them for — by adding a bit of cross stitch to the lid.

This idea comes from Gathered, and while they are showing examples of Mason jars used for storage in the craft room, you can use these throughout the house. I’m also thinking you could do this as a way to fancy up a traditional Mason jar sewing kit, since there’s already a little batting under the piece of cross stitch you could still use it as a pincushion.

The post walks you through how to make a cross stitched Mason jar lids and a link to a PDF pattern that includes six design options.

They’re not totally for beginners because they include cross stitch, backstitch, eyelets and Rhodes stitch, but if you aren’t familiar with those techniques you can either leave them off or there’s a stitch diagram in the PDF to help you.

Either way these designs are cute and relatively quick to stitch in whatever colors you like. It’s easy to turn them into jar toppers, or you could even just use the Mason jar ring as a frame rather than using it on top of a jar (I did this with a little Christmas tree cross stitch pattern I turned into an ornament).

They’re super cute in the pastel colors shown, or work in red and green for more of a holiday look if you’re using them for gift giving.

Check out the instructions and grab the free patterns for these jar toppers at Gathered. Once you start stitching I’m sure you’ll come up with all sorts of things you want to store or gift in jars so that you can make more of them!

[Photo: Gathered]

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