The Parlor has been pretty busy with a lot of things, but aren't we all at this time of year? Not all of it has been good, though, so having something to escape with means my 3D model project of the Mayfair house--1239 First Street in New Orleans--has come a long way.
This is a tiny little teaser, but also to get you thinking about the character of Lasher. What are his true intentions for the Mayfair Witches? Why is Christmas so central to Lasher's history and his plans? And how is that going to play out in Season 2 of AMC's Mayfair Witches when there wasn't any mention of Christmas to any real extent in Season 1?
Michael Curry's love of Christmas really stands out in The Witching Hour. His memories of Christmas as a child, and his later love of the holiday led to his collecting an assortment of beautiful Christmas ornaments. When he went back to San Francisco briefly to close up his house and business and ship some of his belongings to New Orleans, among those belongings were some boxes of the Christmas ornaments he'd collected. He was thrilled to finally be able to have a Christmas tree large enough to display all of these treasures.
This is partly what inspired me to include a version of the Mayfair house that is a Christmas version. Like the model of the house itself, the Christmas version is by no means finished, but I'm tucking in a few little surprises here and there.
Something else, as long as I'm on the subject of San Francisco: Rowan and Michael relocated just in time in The Witching Hour. The novel's present-day time is 1989, and San Francisco had the major earthquake in October of that year. Looking at photos of the area where Michael's house was set in, if he were an actual person, he'd be bleepin' lucky his house managed to escape with what sounds like comparatively minor damage. Like the roof leak.
At some point, I want to resume exploring Michael's love of Victoriana. Some things I'm trying to update at the time of year those things are relevant. In the meantime, I've been looking at other things that could stand to be updated and added on to. Even things as seemingly insignificant as bits of tradition and cultural heritage unique to New Orleans, seen in creative ways.
But I'm getting ahead of myself, here. This is a very brief teaser as we get closer to Christmas...