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Spring fever is hitting us at Sparkplugging! We can’t wait until we can get started on our garden and get outdoors to play! Since I am an amateur photographer that doesn’t have a lot of time to do anything cool with my photos, I’m happy to be able to share them with you here.
Enjoy These [...]

We went letterboxing yesterday and I couldn’t wait to come home and share this idea with all of you!
What is letterboxing you ask?
According to Letterboxing.org,
Letterboxing is an intriguing pastime combining navigational skills and rubber stamp artistry in a charming “treasure hunt” style outdoor quest. A wide variety of adventures can be found to [...]

Tomorrow is May Day and as Louisa May Alcott shared in her book Jack and Jill today is the day to make May Day baskets in all “shapes, sizes and colors.”

The job now in hand was May baskets, for it was the custom of the children to hang them on the doors of their [...]

My ten-year-old loves doing origami. She can make all sorts of things using this Japanese art of paper folding, including cranes, frogs and these origami balls. Since making origami balls (or any other origami shape) are not my strong suit, I asked my daughter to demonstrate how to make them. So I could learn later [...]

As far as I’m concerned, spring has sprung. The sun is shining, the temperature is warmer and the birds are chirping. Something is missing though. The flowers aren’t blooming . . . yet. So I decided my girls and I would make our own spring flowers to tide us over until Mother Nature has time [...]