After the first blush of spring touched our home, we had a late snow. I always like trying to go outside to take some doll photos in snow, just because it doesn’t happen here very often. The juxtaposition of the early leaves and the fresh snow were an extra delight, but it was warm the next day, so the snow wouldn’t last long. I decided to try for some photos of my favorite, got him dressed in an outfit with colors best suited for spring to bridge the gap between the two seasons, and went out.
Often, I’m not really sure what to do with my doll photos. I share them on Instagram so others in the hobby can see them, but that makes it difficult to have them together in a meaningful way, and it also makes it hard to find them again in the future when they’re so far down the feed.
For a while, I wasn’t sure if I should post them here. My site’s mostly writing/book-related stuff and part of me feels it should stay that way. But then my dolls are all projects to create visual representations of characters from various books I’ve published, so it kind of belongs here… and really, for sake of simplicity, I should officially start blending the things I do into one place so it’s easy to find my work. Honestly, with the fickle whims of social media algorithms, posting all the doll projects here might be a good idea, because then it’ll be a way I can ensure people will always easily find what I’m creating, even when I’m not showing up in feeds. Not positive on that, but hey, if you like the idea, please let me know?
Anyway, I’ll just finish with the photos of Rune I got in the snow. I think he’ll always be my favorite, because his face is the first doll head I’ve sculpted… and the first thing I’ve sculpted at all, really, and I’ve learned so much about the complex mechanics that go into engineering dolls just from working on him alone. Someday, maybe I’ll put together a permanent page about his customization so it’ll be easy to see everything I’ve done. For now, I’ll just enjoy the notion of him enjoying spring.
The first time Rune sees snow happens in Serpent’s Bane, book 3 of the Snakesblood Saga. It’s a new experience then, and I’d like to think that as life goes on, snowfall never loses its magic…
