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

[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