Runestones to a memory

[lady_kishiria]

As you all recall, americanstd's mom died in September. He's been missing her a lot, so I offered to get one of her gnome figures and paint her name in runes on it as a monument to her.

When I was up at Los Alamitos last week, I looked through her gnome collection. Most of them were silly: gnomes riding snails or being overly cute. Then I found this one:



He has gravitas. In fact, he reminded me a lot of Odin. I took him home and cleaned him up. If you notice, the statue has closed eyes. I have remedied that:



I decided against putting runes on his hat. Instead, this statue of the Allfather now gazes down upon us from a shelf in our kitchen.

Comments

[bork.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's great.

He *does* look like Odin!

[die-uberfrau.livejournal.com]

That's so cute that it's wrong. I'm stealing your gnome next time I'm there, or something.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

While I used the picture you have as your icon here to decide which of his eyes to open, I didn't notice until now that both images are holding their staffs in the same hand.

[die-uberfrau.livejournal.com]

See, you didn't do it wrong. ;P

[garpu.livejournal.com]

He's cute.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Steve's mom is now getting the last laugh. We have one of her gnomes and I'm not trying to ship it off to Iraq.

[la-azteca.livejournal.com]

He's great, and I think he has a hankering for whatever is in that Jiffy mix that is in the picture.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

It's a corn muffin mix. It has lard, so we need to give it away. Steve is allergic to pork products.

[napoleonofnerds.livejournal.com]

*squints* Odin, really?

Nevertheless, really cool gnome.

[sigmal.livejournal.com]

Kinda looks familiar. :P

I like this gnome, and he does remind me of Him. I expect he likes having a seat high up from which he can look down on his surroundings. Yep.