Sign up for our e-newsletter, The Sparkler, to keep in touch. We include designer profiles, Q&As and much more. Recent issues for your reading pleasure:

August 2009: Leave a Paper Trail.
April 2009: Party Time!
February 2009: New Beginnings
January 2009: Weddings
December 2008: Gift Ideas
November 2008: Shop Locally
September 2008: 'Tis the Season
August 2008: Go Green

Spark in the news:
Spark is featured in national trade magazine, Greetings, Etc. (October 2010). Download the article here.

USA Today interviews owner Joya Helmuth (August 2010), "Independent Retailers Face Challenges That Chains Don't"

Owner Joya Helmuth is profiled in Tribune Business Weekly (May 2009). Download here.

Spark is featured in Party & Paper Retailer magazine (May 2009). Download here.

"Local Gifts: Find unique attendant gifts around Michiana," South Bend Tribune (May 2009).

"For downtown visitors, walk is work of art," South Bend Tribune (May 2009).

Read about The Shops at Hill and Colfax and ShoLo in InMichiana (February 2009).

Spark and ShoLo are featured on Fox 28 News.

More about The Shops at Hill and Colfax is in the Tribune Business Weekly, December 2008.

Thank You Card Kit for Kids is featured as a Spark gem in Inside Granger (May 2007).

Articles by Spark:
"ShoLo: The Power of Shopping Locally," Michiana Family Magazine, December 2008.

"Etiquette, Schmettique: What's the Point?" Wedding Day, Summer 2008.

"Creative Alternatives to the Traditional Guestbook," Wedding Day, Winter 2008.

"Your Child's Paper Trail," Michiana Family Magazine, May 2008.

"Engraving, Letterpress and Flat: Oh My!" Wedding Day, Summer 2007.

Wedding magazines featuring Spark:
Fairytale Wedding Invitations in Wedding Day (Winter 2009).

See our feature, ad and color palette in Wedding Essentials (April 2008).

Spark is the bees knees in invitations, according to Shore Bride (Fall 2007).

Read our feature in the Spring 2007 edition of Wedding Day (Spring 2007).