When my mom went to Norway a few summers back to see where our family came from, she fell in love with these cute little gnomes and had to buy one for each one of us girls. It was a less traditional gnome and had hair like a troll doll. It is so cute and pudgy and has a nice little home in my entertainment center. It came with a puzzle block with pictures of more traditional garden gnomes. I have always loved garden gnomes, but always been afraid of putting them in my garden as I have always worried about ‘gnome-napping’, especially if it was a unique gnome like these naughty gnomes! You can’t replace those ones with gnomes you find down at the neighborhood garden center!

The types of gnomes I like best are the ones that look much like my own Nordic Gnome, with earthier colors and more subtle features, something closer to the german garden gnomes. Those are some cute little guys. My favorite is the little guy on the left, although my sister made one quite similar to the little guy on the bottom right hand corner one year in her ceramic class that I loved.