Birdie Sanders
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  Birdie Sanders!   Trippy!    - Mittens Meme Bernie and Acid trip not necessarily included.

  Birdie Sanders in Da House!  - Well, technically he's more-so been in the Senate for quite a while now.  But here at Just Say Gnome we're just starting to offer a sculpture of this most heroic avian Progressive Social Birdocrat!

  He's available either painted or unpainted.  And actually there's' even a couple of variations of how detailed his painting can be.    Prices vary depending upon how detailed the painting is.

  Immediately below you'll find the details on all of that - and then, if you're interested, you can scroll a little further down to learn more about the Legend of Birdie Sanders! 

   Prices for Birdie Sanders (subject to change for a little while - until I figure out how much work each one really takes anyway.:

Unpainted Birdie  - just as cement - or all painted light-grey with outdoor quality paint - and with primer underneath.                                                       $ 77  + shipping.

Birdie Painted in full color - Except
 with just gray-tones on his base and the letters.                                     $130  + shipping.

Fully Painted Full color Birdie! 
Birdie and his base-stand all painted in color:                                        $184  + shipping

 *  Shipping will likely be in the $35 to $65 range (for domestic shipments) depending on whether or not you live close to Oregon - or are near a major shipping route. 

Front View - of Birdie prototype!

Left-side view of Birdie prototype!

The Legend of Birdie Sanders!

   Back in March of  2016 - not long after Senator Sanders had really started attracting national attention for his run for US President as a Democratic Socialist he had a surprising visitor during his speech at a huge rally in the Moda center here in Portland Oregon.   Original Birdie had already been hanging out on the stage  beginning to get attention from the audience - but then when Bernie noticed his little avian admirer and started talking about him, Birdie suddenly jumped up and landed right in front of Bernie on the Senator's podium - hanging out with him for a while before taking off!  (check out the video of the real time event below)

   - and though I'm not clear on what Birdie himself was tweeting [ here's Bernie's Tweet about the event ].

  The incident of course inspired a minor but still impressive Meme storm.  ( though it can't quite compare with the Bernie-in-Mittens meme - it was still quite something for that point in time in the early Meme Era. 

 [ - and just to be clear I or rather us here at Just Say Gnome didn't create any of these images.  They're done by various talented artists whose work can be found through a basic Google search.  I've just gathered them all up here for your edutainment.  Some of the artist names are included in the image - and if anyone has anymore information about their authorship please feel free to pass that one to us and we'll include it as a caption under the image.  Thanks                                                                                             ]

 
  - and while many creators of Birdie art memes embraced Bernie's interpretation of Birdie as representing the dove of peace - others took their memes in more militant directions:

  
     And then of course there was the whole Snow White / Bernie thing!  
   I really don't know quite what to say about that.  but I like it!

  And Birdie became more of a general symbol of the Sanders campaign too:  and as we'll see soon one particular Birdie image even became a standard icon on Senator Sanders' main website. 

 
   Then there were the look-alike images.  Apparently based on a real bird photo or two.  and maybe some of them on imagination too. : )

   And I think these Bald Eagle - Bernie images were even from before the 'Birdie Event'!

   And then there were the cartoonified images of Birdie himself(?) - and as you can see there have been several versions: 

   But ultimately the image that really stuck and caught on the most seems to be this - the classic 'Birdie' image.  Bernie even seems to have adopted it as his official symbolic Birdie representation - featuring  the image  on the tab above  the URL of his website!:

         https://berniesanders.com/

  So this modern classic image of Birdie is the one we mainly tried to stay true to in sculpting the Just Say Gnome version of Birdie Sanders.

    *  [ I haven't yet found who illustrated that classic image but if you know please do pass on the info  so we can give the artist credit here too.  Thanks!   ]