Where can an artist go when she has just one day to find a studio big enough to construct a 30-foot, one-ton concrete sculpture for a tony Las Vegas resort?

"Thank god for Craig's List," answers artist Kim Graham.

Through the Internet site, Graham found a building behind a house just off Des Moines Memorial Drive South just a few blocks north of Sunnydale school in Burien.

There the sculptor and her six team members worked frantically to build the "gargantuan" troll in six weeks.

The work was commissioned for the Bellagio Resort in Las Vegas.

It is based on another sculpture Graham sold to the resort that appeared in Fremont's annual parade.

Her team finished the piece and trucked it off to Nevada last week.

This week Graham and an assistant are supervising the intricate installation of the sculpture at the Bellagio.

Travelers to the upscale resort, which boasts graceful fountains in front, usually don't associate Bellagio with irreverent Northwest trolls.

But Graham says the resort has a massive five-story conservatory with a world-class display of flowers. Her piece will be tucked in one small corner of the flower beds.

"Bellagio does everything in a very big way," Graham explained.