{"id":60251,"date":"2017-09-06T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=60251"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:42:25","slug":"maker-story-fred-conlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2017\/maker-story-fred-conlon\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Purpose, Fun, and Sustainable Design with Fred Conlon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fun fact: Utahan Fred Conlon<\/a> has been working with us here at UncommonGoods for over ten years, and in all that time, we’ve only mentioned him on the blog a teeny-tiny handful of times<\/a>. But it’s 2017, and we’re saying, “No more.” It’s time to give Fred his due the best way we know how, and that’s with his very own maker story.<\/p>\n

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Raised in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Fred’s the son of two high school English teachers, which may at least help to explain how he wound up with a degree in Public Communication despite his ambition to open a pottery shop. After a brief tour as a ceramicist, Fred transformed his shop into the full-time metalworking studio where he now crafts punny paperweights<\/a>\u00a0and his signature Gnome-Be-Gones<\/a>, both fixtures of our assortment here at UG for the better part of the past decade. Read on for a Q&A with Fred that touches on inspiration, sustainability, and what makes his job so special. (We also took a couple of moments to scour his Instagram, the evidence of which, too, lies below.)<\/p>\n

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Battle frogs. #gnomebegone #sugarpost #navyseals #army #navy #airforce #marines<\/a><\/p>\n

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