I confess, I harbor a huge artist crush on Renee Garner of Wolfie and the Sneak. Not only is her work visually inspiring, but it's layered in recycled materials and found objects, a concept I admire. I love the thought of creating sustainable art. Recycling in a physical sense (as opposed to the recycling of ideas and styles that is unfortunately typical of much art we're exposed to nowadays.)

When Renee offered plant advice in her column at Modish, I threw her my urban garden challenge. The thought of planting seeds, nourishing the soil, and growing my own garden got me to thinking about how huge one small seed can be. "Look how these weeds have grown in this stale dirt", I thought. "Imagine what this will look like when I actually put effort and love into it."

This is what inspired the summer Hope Revolution -- Sewing The Seeds of Hope. Here's the challenge. Make some seed bombs and find public patches of dirt that could use a little love. Plant it and leave behind a hope note. You can make your own, or print off one of these lovelies Renee created.

Every time you pass the spot, even after the note is long gone, you'll be reminded of your secret operation, and the power of a single seed. Or in this case, seed bomb. :)

I'll be on the BlogHer Beautiful Blogging and Positive Posting panel on Day One in lover-ly San Francisco.

More details here!

I just gave 100+ hope notes to UPS to bring to Jen to bring to Rwanda.

I feel like I might throw up. Hopefully I'll feel less anxious when I know they got to DC okay.

The first wave of notes hit my post office box last week -- thank you for the love, energy and creativity you have put into them. Keep them coming! We still need a lot more. If you can get them finished and mailed by next Wednesday (May 7th) that should give them enough time to arrive.

I will be sending her an overnight package on Monday, and she'll be headed to Rwanda at week's end. Have a Hope Revolution party this weekend and recruit your friends & family!

Jen and Odette are making hope happen in Rwanda! They've raised enough to cover the travel expenses, book publishing and other materials needed to spread hope while Jen's there.

Now that the resources are in place, there's a long laundry list of things to do. And that's where you and I come in, fellow hope revolutionaries! We're going to create hope notes to send with Jen to the girls of Rwanda. Here's how you can participate:

• Create or purchase a blank 3½" x 5½" card. (This is US index card size, a standard we're using to help keep things uniform for transporting and distributing the cards.)
• Choose one of the phrases in this text document for your card. Write the English version on one side, and the translated version on the other, in your own handwriting. We want each card to have the energy of the person who created it, and for the girls to feel like it came from a person who was thinking of them specifically when they wrote it.
• Add decoration, illustration, whatever your heart desires!
  
• Mail your card(s) [Address Removed]
  

Update: This project has been closed. Thanks to everyone who participated!