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A gnome for our home

June 15, 2010 by Erin Heaton

I kind of love garden gnomes, but not so much that I want a full size Winklebottom.
Before
So when I found this tiny ceramic guy for 50 cents at Target, he more or less begged me to take him home. Although cute, he was also kind of cheap looking.

I gave him a coat of oil-rubbed bronze spray paint and I think it suits him! Doesn’t it look like real metal?

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  1. Princess of Everything (and then some) says

    June 17, 2010 at 4:43 pm

    I picked up one of these too! I repainted his hat and mushrooms and he looks much better!

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