Sandra Webberking’s family is all about building things.

Her grandfather built their house in Springfield. He and her father built their workshop.

Sandra Webberking builds a garden.

The sculptor, welder, and gardener, who grew up in Glen Mills, creates metal sculptors that take on the shape of colorful yellow marigolds, purple salvia, ruby cockscomb, and gold-toned sunflowers, writes Sally A. Downey for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Webberking, who sells her work online, will be opening her Springfield studio and showroom to the public on Friday, Nov. 29, and Saturday, Nov. 30.

She’s converted a former garage next to the workshop into a showroom filled with sunflowers, silver seahorses, and fanciful fish and Christmas trees made from hand saws.

Her boyfriend, Dana Collings, carved rectangular birdbaths on display.

Most of Webberking’s sculptures are made from sheet metal.

She started out studying jewelry design at Moore College of Art and Design, but discovered the joy of creating welding sculptures.

She and her mother, Pat, sold their sculptures at arts and crafts shows.

“She was my biggest booster,” Webberking said.

There’s a garden bed with meadow moth sculptures planted by Sandra in her mom’s memory after Pat died of breast cancer in 2000.

Find out more about Sandra Webberking and her family in The Philadelphia Inquirer.