Funko Pop Alert! Custom pops for Weather Girl
I've been inspired again to Pop-ify a fave couple - twice in one month is a record, I think! I just loved Rachel Lynn Solomon's new book Weather Girl and its characters so much that I needed to have them on my shelf! {{If you're not familiar with the premise, Ari is a meteorologist and Russell is a sports reporter for the local Seattle TV station, KSEA Channel 6.}} Below you can see the mock-ups I made for both Ari and Russell, showing the Pops I used for head and body (and in Russell's case, glasses). I think they came together pretty well. I was lucky to already have the spare glasses from having used the Felicity pop's body for Stella from The Kiss Quotient. Ari's boots are a big hot mess. I ordered a couple different pairs of Barbie boots but decided to give it a go using paint first, since the boots hadn't arrived when I started working on the pops. I piled on thick yellow paint and built them up around her legs, but the paint job is not a smooth o...
