What do you think of our new doorbell? (pic)

It's just been installed so I wish somebody would come to the door.  
It has little round glass eyes and the button stays lit all the time. (Sorry I don't take great pictures.)

I think it's adorable and the pic is fine.

Nice! I like it....

I want one! Cute and different, kitehs and bats rock [emoji]128513[/emoji]

OMG NEED

Oh that's great!  

Love it!

Thanks for looking, and for the comments! You guys are the only people who have "come to the door" so far. 

OH!  A cat gargoyle!  I love it.  If I were there, I'd ring it three times, for luck!  Never mind that I drove you crazy doing it.  I'm a huge fan of gargoyles.  The Halloween shop here has 4' tall ones at their door.  If I had the money and the space, one of them would come to live with me.  Unfortunately, they cost my monthly income x 3, and I'd have to move the bed out to make room.  But a girl (and an old woman) can dream.

Gargoyles, you say, Mamanyt1953???

Meet Rupert, who lives in our front yard. He's a little over 4-1/2 feet tall and is solid concrete. He's a heavy bugger....it took three guys to get him off the truck and get him situated. I think he's awesome. We were at this landscaping center that had a lot of concrete things. I saw Rupert and ordered one on the spot. My BIL has a gargoyle in his backyard, but he calls him Theodore. 
And Apex, the winged dragon who lives atop our arbor in the back yard at the entrance to the pool; we always say that Apex is guarding the pool.


Our CatGoyle lives on the wall above our inside basement door. 


I have a double-headed gargoyle on my cube door at work. He's really cool and he's gotten a lot of nice comments. His twin gargoyle will start to live on our shed door next spring; right now he's in the basement for the winter.

Oh and we have two waterspout catchers, Roland and Randolph. They are small gargoyles that our house raingutters go into in the yard. They need to be replaced as they're in pretty bad shape now.

Winchester said:

And Apex, the winged dragon who lives atop our arbor in the back yard at the entrance to the pool; we always say that Apex is guarding the pool.

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• Winchester
• Nov 5, 2015

Our CatGoyle lives on the wall above our inside basement door. 

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• Winchester
• Nov 5, 2015

I have a double-headed gargoyle on my cube door at work. He's really cool and he's gotten a lot of nice comments. His twin gargoyle will start to live on our shed door next spring; right now he's in the basement for the winter.

Oh and we have two waterspout catchers, Roland and Randolph. They are small gargoyles that our house raingutters go into in the yard. They need to be replaced as they're in pretty bad shape now.

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~drools lightly on the keyboard~  I am so intensely jealous.  Not really, but kinda-sorta really.  Well, I'll look forward to doing something like in a smaller way soon.  I discovered Design Toscano a few years ago, and have be salivating over their 'goyles ever since.  In January, one the cat is out of hock (I had to borrow to pay her  huge vet bill, and until it is paid back, she is "in hock"), I'm planning on adding a few smaller 'goyles to my household, while setting back the pennies for a larger one.  However, I'm an apartment dweller, so space is limited, and yardspace doesn't exist.

Winchester

They scare me, gargoyles.

I really like Design Toscano, too. Our CatGoyle came from there as did our rainspout catchers and our twin-headed gargoyle (I really need to take a picture of him).

Gargoyles protect the house and the property they live on, so nothing to be afraid of. (The first time our granddaughter saw Rupert, she said that he was scary. I told her the same thing, no reason to be afraid because Rupert was there to protect our house. She went over to him, patted him on the back, and then said to her dad, "We need a Rupert, Dad!")

I've had people tell me that there's no way they would have a gargoyle on their property. My response? "And that's why he lives here!"   

At last count, I think my sister and BIL have 18 gargoyles on their property now, including in their house. They have an Apex, too; he lives on their roof and they have him spotlighted at night. He looks awesome.

I so agree, Winchester!  Stewball, they have to look like that to scare away the eeeeebil things that creep around.  They're oh-so protective.  You just have to get used to the look of them, and there are so many!   Give them a chance, and one might catch your fancy, or even tickle your funny bone.

If I had any artistic talent at all, I'd do a picture of gargoyles and ghosts, call it "Goyles and Boos."

I actually DO have a gargoyle, come to think of it.  He's a dragongoyle puppet, His name is Shadrach, for reasons that escape me for the moment, other than it just seemed to fit.  He sits on my shoulder, and a wire that comes out his furry tail makes his head move very realistically...well...as much as can be said for a dragongoyle.  I wear him on Hallowe'en when kids come to the door.  He nods at them, and then shyly tucks his head into my neck.  They love it.  The rest of the year he lives in a little dog bed by the front door, with a picture of a princess and a bowl of small change.  Dragon's gotta have a princess and a hoard, you know!

I love the doorbell and Pam's gargoyles!

That's awesome!

Love the doorbell, and would happily ring it!

I've only just seen this... @SwampWitch that is just fabulous!

@Winchester I used to love wandering around old cities in the UK admiring the gargoyles, but I never knew why there were there.  Just googled it and this is what Wikipedia had to say:

There are multiple versions of the story, either that St. Romanus subdued the creature with a crucifix, or he captured the creature with the help of the only volunteer, a condemned man. In each, the monster is led back to Rouen and burned, but its head and neck would not burn due to being tempered by its own fire breath. The head was then mounted on the walls of the newly built church to scare off evil spirits, and used for protection.  In commemoration of St. Romain, the Archbishops of Rouen were granted the right to set a prisoner free on the day that the reliquary of the saint was carried in procession.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle

Thanks, guys! I didn't even realize the doorbell was a gargoyle, lol.

Winchester, I love your gargoyles! I'm a fan, too, we have much smaller ones but now I feel inspired to maybe adopt a larger statue for outside.

I haven't unpacked ours yet since are going in my office which won't be reno'd until January. But I dug up some pictures when we had them out in our old house.

The tombstone in the middle is a duplicate of a real one from a young woman's grave in Massachusetts - about 20 miles from where we lived in Cambridge. Some people think it's creepy but I think it's beautiful… There's all kinds of symbolism in it, for example the snake in shape of a ring symbolizes eternity. 

These are just a few of them. The gargoyle holding the flags was at our wedding reception - he held the pen for people to sign the book. We had gargoyles on the top of our cake, too.


The statue on the left is a cat gargoyle that my daughter gave me for my birthday one year. The ones on the right were on our wedding cake, but we added the little one in the middle after our daughter was born.


These aren't technically gargoyles, but they go along with them; I used to play with horned toads all the time when I was a kid - I loved those guys! Here are our horned toads, or "horny toads" as we used to call them. 
Not sure where to put the toad family in our new place - these were a wedding gift and are hand-made of metal.

The tombstone is beautiful.  The snake is called a uroboros, right?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros   I have a ring like that.  I like the symbolism of always recreating oneself.