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

[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.