Unique and Unusual

Happy Halloween from gardenfreude

10.31.2011 Design

We hope you are staying safe and having fun on this Halloween night. Please enjoy pumpkin #9- Cyclops.

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Pumpkin Episode 8 – Revenge of Yoda’s Clone

10.28.2011 Unique and Unusual

If any of you have managed to miss the fact that the gardenfreude house is populated by total geeks, then this is the moment when you realize just how geeky we really are. Well friends, there you have it; we are big geeks. . . Star Wars obsessed geeks. . . biology loving geeks who [...]

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Pumpkin #7 – Bones

10.27.2011 Design

Our counter and our refrigerator have been completely dominated by pumpkins for a couple of weeks. I’ve kind of fallen in love with this crazy squash. I also learned that carving them in the 3D style makes me very happy. If you’re thinking about making a pumpkin this weekend, make sure you stop by Handjobs [...]

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Pumpkin #5 (But Hoooo’s Counting)

10.25.2011 Design

I decided that I had to try my hand at a truly intricate carving, but I couldn’t think of anything to carve. . . So, I decided to walk the dogs and say hi to our friend Mackenzi over at Site. When I got there I was completely inspired by this owl pitcher. I snapped [...]

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Adventures in 3-D or Pumpkins #2-4

10.23.2011 Design

If you’ve been following this blog closely, you may be beginning to notice that we are not a family that likes to make things simple. In fact, we frequently look at each other in the midst of a project and freely admit that we have made a mountain out of a mole hill. This is true [...]

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Pumpkin #1-Bee Love

10.20.2011 Design

I absolutely love bees. We have enjoyed building a garden where they feel comfortable and we are very much looking forward to the day we have a buzzing little hive of our own. I’m even actively researching bee art for my next tattoo. When I wanted to carve our first pumpkin of the season, it [...]

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Pumpkins are A’Blaze’

10.18.2011 Get to Know Us

If you have curcurbitophobia (fear of pumpkins), then the week of posts we have planned may not be for you. But if you have a soft spot for the amazing orange member of the squash family that we carve, paint, sculpt, eat, and turn into a festival of Halloween joy, then you absolutely must go [...]

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Theatre Window at Site

10.05.2011 Design
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Once upon a time I was a scenic designer for the theatre and what I discovered was that I loved making visual art, but I did not enjoy the business of designing for the theatre. Now I take any opportunity I can to create things and when they are large scale collaborative projects I get [...]

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How to Make an Indian Truck Art Flower Pot

09.23.2011 Design
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I am excited this week to bring you the instructions for these flower pots I made. Each one is a project you can finish in a few days or a long day of painting. While surfing the net a few weeks ago I stumbled onto some images of intricately painted semis and buses from India [...]

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Ink

08.30.2011 Design
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Erich and I are big fans of tattoos. We ogle them on the streets, we look at them on the internet, and we each have more than three of our own. A week is not complete in our house without discussing our current fascinations and plans for future tattoos. Now, for those of you who [...]

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