Project Sparkle

Project Sparkle aims to brighten the day of nurses, healthcare workers

Tysh Mefferd is doing what she can to thanks healthcare workers.

HOUSTON — From shoutouts to the gift of sparkle, Houstonians are finding creative ways to thank nurses. Even apart, we're still celebrating nurses and our healthcare workers, together.

Social media is helping. Debbie from Katy connected with KHOU Reporter Melissa Correa on Nextdoor to share details about Project Sparkle. It's a kindness campaign launched by jewelry company Park Lane.

Jewelry stylist Tysh Mefferd is helping to make it all happen.

You know a fun pair of beautifully sparkly earrings that they can wear when they’re working. When they’re not working,

"And we were kind of, like, we want to do something. We’re being asked to stay at home, but surely we can do something and make an impact.
—Mefferd

About nine weeks ago, Park Lane stylists began donating jewelry boxes to frontline workers. A set of earrings are paired with handwritten cards of appreciation. The grassroots project quickly, "turned into a movement of thousands of customers wanting to be a part of it and also donate to the cause."

Project Sparkle has helped to brighten the day of about 20,000 healthcare workers around the world, so far.

Sharing a little touch and surprise of sparkle wasn’t going to change the world and it wasn’t going to solve the problem. Our hope was, if it could put a smile on a stranger’s face, then we’ve done all we can do today,
—Mefferd

If you’d like to help get the goody bags to female first responders, email at sparkle@parklanejewelry.com

Project Sparkle

Park Lane Rep launches ‘Project Sparkle’ to brighten up the dark days of the COVID-19

Christine Lammers from Canton Township in Michigan noticed healthcare workers on the front line of the coronavirus crisis were overworked, stressed beyond limits and extremely short on smiles, knowing how she has brightened many women’ days with Sparkle Box surprises in the past, she instantly came up with a project called the “Project Sparkle” to brighten up these overworked, overstressed healthcare workers who are in the front-line.

Christine Lammers said the project started with an idea to deliver jewelry to women working on the front lines in hospitals. Now there’s a movement underway that’s catching on across the country.

Lammers, a Park Lane Jewelry representative, purchases trendy, fashion jewelry using our representative status with the company and puts together goody bags of jewelry all day, then goes to bed at night thinking about who she can help next.

This is what we know and what we love
—Lammers

During a conversation with her friends in Texas a few weeks ago, she came up with the idea to help women working in hospitals and elderly care facilities with fashion jewelry such as earrings and bracelets.

It started with healthcare workers
—Lammers

Now they’re helping even more people, from nurses to postal carriers.

Every $24 donation buys one gift set. Volunteers then match each gift with another one of their own.

We also know jewelry makes people happy
—Lammers

Hundreds of the gifts have already been given out in Metro Detroit, and thousands more have been gifted across the country, from Texas to Washington to Florida to New York to California.

Attached to each gift is a note, written by children from the area, thanking workers for their service.

The gift is great, but the handwritten card -- that really means the difference to the community
—Lammers

If you’d like to help get the goody bags to female first responders, email at sparkle@parklanejewelry.com