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Tyson Weiss's fish are handmade in his Falmouth, Maine studio. They are made to last as beautiful additions to your outdoor garden area, but are equally beautiful indoors as sculptural objects. Tyson is a professional landscaper by training, and designs his fish to bring delight and whimsy to outdoor space of all kinds.

Fish In The Garden
Gary Caldwell has crafted distinctive, beautiful art in stainless steel for over 30 years. <br><br> He is completely self-taught, with a flair for transforming sheets of stainless steel into fanciful three-dimensional creations. He first researches his subjects for anatomical accuracy. Then, with skilled hands and 6,000 degrees of heat, he bends and shapes flat steel into a lifelike sculptures, and grinds, cuts, and/or welds to create texture on the surface. After this intricate process, he carefully heats the steel with a torch to bring out vibrant colors that include cobalt blue, burnished bronze, and coal black. <br><br> The combination of Gary's creativity and the inherent variances in his design process ensures each finished piece of art is original and unique. The beautiful colors are permanent -- little maintenance is required -- so his sculptures are appropriate for display inside a building or out in a garden.

Gary Caldwell
Haw Creek Forge is a small business with a big reputation for quality, originality and service. In our riverside studio in the mountains of North Carolina, a small group of talented artisans carefully craft each piece of our unique and whimsical garden art, continuing the tradition of handcrafted in America. We take great pride in each piece marked with our HCF studio mark. The brilliant patina and torch finishes on each piece are clear coated for weather fastness and durability. <br><br> "From working the high rise as a construction welder to building power plants and paper mills, I have managed to use my creative skills in the medium of metal. Attending craft workshops and numerous welding schools, led me to the beauty of copper. I was able to combine my technical skills and love of metal with my favorite school project as a child--creating an insect collection. Many creations later, my inspiration has grown to include all of nature, allowing me to find creativity and satisfaction in the work that has become my life." - Catherine Murphy, Haw Creek Forge

Haw Creek Forge
It all started in 1999 with a few make shift tools from the kitchen, some clay and a lot of patience. With just a few high school pottery classes under our belts, we setup our first pottery shop in the family garage and began making and selling Shroomyz ceramic garden mushrooms. The first shop was quite rudimentary to say the least, plaster from the hardware store, super soaker squirt guns and chicken wire were just a few of the makeshift tools we used to make the first Shroomyz. If anyone remembers those very first Shroomyz off the press they truly were "one of a kind." Demand for the Shroomyz grew quickly and our college friends were soon recruited to help out in the JJ Potts studio. Since then most of the original crew has moved on and got "real" jobs but, many of the current employees are still college students working their way through school. <br><br> Since leaving the garage, the factory has grown and more equipment has been added to the operation but the original electric kiln given to us by our father to start the operation is still in use today. The production has evolved quite a bit over the years and we have a few more Shroomyz under our belts, but our passion for creating unique and lasting ceramic garden art lives on. We hope you enjoy our work.

JJ Potts
My first windbell was the result of years of tinkering with bronze casting and pattern making. After successfully casting my first bell, my focus then turned toward creating windbells as functional art that range from contemporary wind-blown designs to the more animate birds and blue herons. <br><br> Each bell has its own unique mottled patina consisting of black, blues, and shades of green. Pronounced areas are then polished to a high bronze luster. Their rich, clear tones vary with size and shape giving each bell its own distinct sound. The durable combination of bronze and cocobolo wood allows the bells to be enjoyed outdoors year-round.

Old Town Wind Bells
After receiving a degree in Fine Art, and then taking a few years off to begin a family of four, Cathleen Coulson-Keegan, in the early 70's, began her graphic art studio called Touch the Earth™, exhibiting and selling at galleries and local art fairs. <br><br> Today Cathy and Bill's home, studio and garden are located in Veneta where they are working together with delight and passion on a meditative bamboo garden. Cathy creates the designs for the prayer flags and scrolls and hand prints on silk and Bill puts everything together!

Touch the Earth
Woodstock Chimes offers a unique variety of high quality, affordable musical gifts from around the world that inspire, entertain and bring pleasure to people of all ages. We design and sell the world-famous Woodstock Chimes and distribute a line of award-winning musical instruments and toys called the Woodstock Music Collection. My wife, Diane, and I started Woodstock Percussion, Inc. in 1979. We are a family-owned business located in New York's beautiful Hudson Valley. In addition to being the founder and owner of Woodstock Chimes, I am a professional musician. I tour and record with the world-renowned percussion group, NEXUS, as well as with Steve Reich. My background in music explains my strong commitment to fine tuning and great sound - which is what makes our products appealing to everyone and unique to the gift industry. I am proud of every product we make and hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do. <br><br> - Gary Kvistad, Founder, Woodstock Chimes

Woodstock Percussion