Description: Where garden gnomes were once a secret pleasure, gnome lovers are popping up like mushrooms all over the world! Stay on top of all the current gnoming trends. Click here to see the magic of gnomes from around the globe.
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Welcome, fellow believers, to PhenomeGNOME.com -- your new home on the Web for everything gnomic! According to aficionados (and there are plenty), garden gnomes are merely the most common (and popular) variety of a race of wee folk who originated in Scandinavia and Siberia, but are now found throughout the world. Should you be strolling about some dewy garden one morning and happen to spot a tiny pipe smoking gentleman peering out of the hedge, don't doubt your senses: you've simply been fortunate enough to
We invite you to share your gnome experiences! If you've got gnome stories, photos, or encounters to share, we'd like to hear about them. We're especially interested in learning how and why you got started gnoming, and we'd love to do profiles of prominent gnomers. Trust with us with everything gnomic, and we'll put it all up here for the world to see. Got a gnomie on your desk? Send us a picture. Take your little buddy traveling with you we want to see that too. It's all good!
At PhenomeGNOME.com we like to think of gnome figurines as mere representations of the real "little people", the same way that Michelangelo's famous David statues are representatives of the Biblical giant-killer. All those yard gnome statues by famous gnome-makers like Kimmel, Gare, Hummel, Goebel, Tom Clark, and Tim Wolfe: they're monuments to gnomic accomplishments and culture. We like to believe that they really are out there, helping animals and plant life, and otherwise making the world a better place.