Artists craft oddities from gourds This weekend's annual Calabash Celebration will see artistic pieces, from decorative to useful, and all made from hardshell gourds.

Several gourd growers from the region will be displaying and selling a variety of gourds--all dried and ready for crafting. Crafters use gourds to create masks, decorative vessels, statues ...

Before copper and ceramics, people relied on natural containers – such as gourds – to carry water and food. The old- est preserved examples of gourds come from Mexico and Peru. Choctow … ...

With the recent interest in creating miniature gardens, often called fairy gardens, Deb McDonnell of East Moline found a new focus her gourd art — crafting tiny fairy garden houses.

On the west side of the yard John and Wanda Schimpf have become mainstays of our fall event. John rolls that apple press off ...

The Greenville area couple grows and decorates gourds. The two will be among the many exhibitors at the Ohio Gourd Show at the Darke County Fairgrounds in Greenville. The event runs from Friday ...

Lisa Craig looks at gourds the way sculptors view clay and carvers view stone. “When you pick up a gourd it speaks to you,” she said. “It tells you what it wants to be.” Eve… ...

Spangler, whose business is called Gourds Galore, will return for her second year as part of the juried Kris Kringle Craft Show from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday ...

This festival features displays of gourds from around the world, special gourd workshops, and vendors of dried gourds, gourd seeds, gourd crafts, gourd art, books, T-shirts and crafting supplies ...