Saturday, September 23, 2017

Sharing Smiles 100 Painted Rocks at a Time

In early June 2017, I created a painting event for Northeast Ohio Rocks! It was a challenge.




The challenge was to paint 100 smiley face rocks. I called it share 100 smiles. The participation in our group was incredible. Our largest ever! 


Nancy Powell Pierson

Fran Dosch

Laura Weale

Shelia Beach

Mickie Staats

Andrea Dawn

Beverly Kuykendall

Autumn Tidd

Jessica Harkness

Tracy Zimmerman


The painting event started June 2, 2017 and was going to continue until July 31, 2017. The group was polled and it was decided we would extend our #share100smiles event. 


Lisa Carper Stott

Lucinda Ball

Laura Hofstetter

Donna Block

Tina Underwood

Elizabeth Shfstahl

Debbie Ray

Donna Grigalunas

Michelle Wahl

Kristen Durfee


Because of the huge success in our group, I shared our event with other rock paintings groups. Other groups across the United States, Australia and New Zealand have participated in the #share100smiles campaign.


Maureen Streett

Mary Kay Park

Anne Paula

Nancy Powell Pierson

Barb Hartley

Laura Rene

Toni Rupp Schnedetz

Shari Johnson

Liz Miller

Sheila Beach


Because of the huge success of the #share100smiles painting event, I created a spinoff Facebook group called Share 100 Smiles.


Autumn Tidd 


 Brooke Elizabeth


 Maureen Street


 JoAnn Drake


 Traci Sanders Moody


Melissa Gautschi 


 Shelia Beach


Bethany Dawn 


 Jennifer Brickman


Mary Nordick

The painting event was meant to be a challenge. It's a challenge to paint 100 rocks. A challenge many people took on and succeeded! 

Lynn Perry

Genevieve Mary

Gloria Thompson

Joni Briggs

Jodi Walters Kovach

Nancy Burls

Donna Greene

Angela Lopaska

Ellen Hochschild

Lynne Newman

Suddenly, because so many were participating, our painting event became a campaign. A smile is the easiest kindness to share. We were now a part of a campaign to share smiles with the world one painted rock at a time. 


Linda Jacobs

Nancy Powell Pierson

Jennifer Brickman

Trudy Ward

Fran Dosch

Michelle Wahl

Carole Hogan

Tina Underwood

Michelle Hall

Joyce Phillips


Many of our members created more than one set.  The success of this painting event was becoming more amazing day by day. 

Brittni Foertch

Joni Briggs

Michelle Davis

Jodi Walters Kovach

Jodi Walters Kovach


Heather Reid

Tina  Underwood

Janet Fritz

Judy Thompkins

Katherine Fauber

Many of us had found a way to quickly paint 100 rocks. Spray painting the rocks cut down on time as did using paint pens to create the smiley faces. 

Michelle Gehrmann

Chelsea Lucas

Autumn Tidd

Jill Collins Jarvis

Kelly Daymut

LuAnn Kennedy

Woodside Senior Living

Casaundra Daniels

Merideth Zmijewski

Shelia Beach

It is much quicker to add labels and seal rocks in an assembly line fashion spending one evening labeling all 100 of the rocks then spending another evening sealing all 100 of the rocks. 

Hope Wood Shernit

Joni Briggs

Joni Briggs

Jodi Walters Kovach

LuAnn Kennedy

Nichole Beard

Nicole Napolitano

Shelia Beach

Sharon Lin

Tina Underwood

As more and more members were creating and sharing 100 smiles, other members were becoming inspired to paint their own set of #share100smiles painted rocks.

Angela Lopaska

Dana Crane

Nicole Napolitano

Merideth Zmijewski

Brandy Healy

Tina Underwood

Shelia Beach


Aliesha Peterson

Tina Underwood


By September 23, 2017, members of Northeast Ohio Rocks! had painted 100 sets of #share100smiles. That is 10,000 smiley face rocks! Northeast Ohio Rocks!

Our spinoff Facebook group, Share 100 Smiles continues to be successful with many groups creating multiple sets of 100 as well. 

You can find the spinoff group here, Share 100 Smiles

Northeast Ohio Rocks! members have continued to paint #share100smiles sets. And, because of the spinoff group smiley faces rocks can continue to be created and shared across the United States and around the World. 

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do" Mother Teresa