In the beginning of January I carved a few stick-gnomes, just to play with my new knife a bit. It started with four, but soon I had ten, then twenty. Then my sister joined in and we made a small army of gnomes. I am not entirely sure how it happened, but all of a sudden we had this idea to send the gnomes around the world, hitchhiking with kind strangers who`d find them and take them along. The Travelling Gnomes-initiative was born. We played around a bit with different methods of wrapping the gnomes up, numbered them for identification, and made explanatory notes to go with the gnomes. The idea is that someone who finds a gnome reports this at our dedicated facebookpage: www.facebook.com/gnomerace, and then takes it along for a while and leave it somewhere else again. Within a weak one gnome had made it to Madrid, and another one to Switzerland! Various other ones have been found and taken along in the Netherlands, where they begin, as well. We hope that the Travelling Gnomes will indeed travel the world and visit many cool places. It is fun to see this idea developing with all these great people that find gnomes, and help them travel. To see where people have found gnomes and where they have left them again you can visit the Travelling Gnomes facebook page.
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| The first four gnomes that were carved. |
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