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.)

There’s something great about every state, and Clive Gifford has collected fun facts, trivia and firsts from every state in Record-Breaking USA: Celebrating America’s Biggest, Brightest and Bravest.

Each state gets a one or two-page spread, with facts scattered around the page and illustrations by Paul Hammond. The page lists a state nickname, the capital, state mammal, a fun fact and some famous residents, as well as firsts and record breaking events that happened in each state.

You’ll learn that Alabama is home to the biggest unclaimed baggage center in the world, that Florida is home to the most toxic tree (the manchineel tree, which has sap that can burn the skin and make people go blind, and its fruit is toxic) and that Iowa is home to the largest model of a strawberry, to name a few facts. Loma, Montana, holds the record for the largest temperature range in a day (from -54 to 49 degrees F, which is a 103 degree difference), while Ohio’s Geauga County once employed the smallest police dog on record, an 11-inch-tall chihuahua/rat terrier mix.

South Dakota has the world’s biggest Bigfoot statue, the cotton candy machine was invented in Tennessee, and a car that was 91 percent cake was driven (and eaten) in Washington state in 2021, now holding the record for the fastest moving mostly edible car.

As you might guess from these sample facts, kids will find this book funny and probably learn some things, too. In addition to the states there’s a page for Washington, D.C., where President Theodore Roosevelt broke the record for the most hands shaken in one day (8,513, a record that’s held since 1907), and the US territories, as well as records that cross state lines and span the globe.

Readers will also learn about records set in space and read what it takes to be a record breaker. There are even a few records listed that you can try to break yourself.

This fun and colorful book is sure to engage kids who love facts, and would be a great one to take along on your next road trip.

About the book: 96 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $24.99.

Have you read?