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about us garden art
About US
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Hello and thank
you for visiting our site!
Pipe Dream Designs is a family run
business consisting of Derek, Jodi, and our two young children. We make
handcrafted/handmade metal garden art and home decor. We
create and market our products during time chiseled out of our full time
jobs, family activities, travel, community events, and various other
interests. A lot of our products will not only add beauty to your home, garden,
or office, but help to keep unwanted material out of the landfills and
scrap yards that aid in polluting the Earth. We recycle wherever
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Our company began with a silly doodle
on a piece of scrap paper.
Looking
at the doodle
we
thought, “Hey, we could make that out of metal”, “That might be
kind of neat!” Having various tools around for numerous previous
projects, the capability was there. And so it began…doodle
after doodle turned in to beautifully crafted pieces of art. Our
designs range from fanciful to functional
to elegant. |
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Derek has been
welding and building things for most of his life, spurred by parents who
could make nearly anything. If you wanted something, try to make it
first, that’s just the way it was. His Dad welding and his Mom sewing to
finish a project for the kids was a pretty common event. |
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Jodi’s involvement
with the metal arts is a bit more recent. Starting as a helper, learning
along the way, she now does her own cutting, welding, and finishing. The
pride of working through the steps and finishing a piece creates a great
sense of pride and joy. |
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Our children are eager to help, and
love to do whatever safety will allow. They often help clean up the shop
and provide design input on projects of interest. |
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