The other weekend Mr H and myself enjoyed a child free weekend, after dropping Miss K and Miss T off at Nanny's and Granddad. We enjoyed a lovely romantic Saturday night out at Miller & Carter Steakhouse followed by an ice-cream and DVD night at home.
This quiet night together was just the prequel to the main event and the whole reason for our kiddie free weekend was we managed to get early bird tickets to Wales Comic Con 2015 Part 1.
We arrived at 8.30 to find the queue already forming ready for the 10am opening of the doors (general entry was at 11am) thankfully it was sunny and warmer than usual so the hr and half wait felt much shorter than last Novembers wait.
I was also under orders from Miss K it get her an Autograph from Jack Donnelly (Jason from Altantis), she thinks he's cute, so the first thing I did was make a beeline for him and collect the much wanted signed photo, all while Mr H looked on shaking his head in disgust. Needless to say the first thing out her month when she saw us was did you manage to get it followed by lots of fangirling as I showed her, my mum said her reaction was on par with mine when my uncle T got me Jason Donovans for Christmas one year.
As with every comic con there's an amazing amount of celebrities, artist and stalls selling tons of memorabilia to geek out over for hours and below is just a few of the goodies we picked up to decorate the very plain sad walls in our house, they have been bare for too long now and I've been dying to put up some artwork and photo frames for ages. All I need now are some poster frames and to force Mr H to do some simply DIY. Most of the artwork cost between £3 and £15 pound.
This A3 My Little Pony print by Liam Shalldo is for the girls bedroom its a mash up of a few of their favourite heroes/villains with the cuteness of girly ponies and a pinch of mommas favourite deadpool. It's going to look awesome on their wall.
We arrived at 8.30 to find the queue already forming ready for the 10am opening of the doors (general entry was at 11am) thankfully it was sunny and warmer than usual so the hr and half wait felt much shorter than last Novembers wait.
I was also under orders from Miss K it get her an Autograph from Jack Donnelly (Jason from Altantis), she thinks he's cute, so the first thing I did was make a beeline for him and collect the much wanted signed photo, all while Mr H looked on shaking his head in disgust. Needless to say the first thing out her month when she saw us was did you manage to get it followed by lots of fangirling as I showed her, my mum said her reaction was on par with mine when my uncle T got me Jason Donovans for Christmas one year.
As with every comic con there's an amazing amount of celebrities, artist and stalls selling tons of memorabilia to geek out over for hours and below is just a few of the goodies we picked up to decorate the very plain sad walls in our house, they have been bare for too long now and I've been dying to put up some artwork and photo frames for ages. All I need now are some poster frames and to force Mr H to do some simply DIY. Most of the artwork cost between £3 and £15 pound.
This A3 My Little Pony print by Liam Shalldo is for the girls bedroom its a mash up of a few of their favourite heroes/villains with the cuteness of girly ponies and a pinch of mommas favourite deadpool. It's going to look awesome on their wall.
OMG this A3 Gambit print by Mike Collin is one of my favourites purchases from the day. I was actually looking at a A5 gambit print when the artist mentioned he had a few limited edition A3 prints left over from the London Super Comic Convention. I'm not ashamed to admit I nearly bit his hand off to see it and once I did I was in love. Gambit was my favourite Xmen as a kid, who doesn't love bad boy gone good.
Neither of us could resist the lure of these 2 Mass Effect A4 prints, Tali'Zorah is still one of my favourite characters from the games, I love her sarcastic, tough and direct personality she's just pure Girl Power. While Mr H grabbed the Garrus print and as he's pretty badass in my opinion I didn't complain.
Yep it's Wonder Woman and she's looking flipping awesome in this print, I love the metallic effect and can't wait to get this beauty in a frame and on the wall.
Miss T loves all things Disney so I couldn't resist picking up this Maleficent A4 print as she loved the film this is going to look great in their room. As soon as she saw it she couldn't help squealing in excitement, she's a total villain fangirl.
The Mass Effect, Wonder Woman and Maleficent prints were all by the same artist who was inside the gaming tent, he had some amazing pieces and I was hoping to be able to find him on Twitter or Facebook to maybe buy some more as the tent was heaving with people and I really needed a little breathing space as spending an age in there looking around but I'm gutted as I didn't manage to catch his name and neither did Mr H, fingers crossed he back in November for Part 2.
Miss K is a huge She-Ra fangirl just like I was as a little girl, she was a princess and kicked ass, she's just plain awesome in my eyes and Miss K's so I couldn't resisted getting her this print, it's a little smaller than A4 but was a total bargain it was just £3 if my memory serves me correctly. Needless to say she loves it.
I also managed to grab my happy little hands on 2 new Funko POPs, Avengers AOU Hawkeye, I love this guy and could rant for England over how underused he's been since they first cameoed his character in Thor, I could also complain very vocally how annoying it is that there is a lack of Hawkeye merchandise available, poor guy just seems to get forgotten about so as soon as I saw him I wanted him so he's now sitting all proudly on the bookcase in my living room til I can find a new home for him. Next to him of course is my other new POP Star Sapphire Wonder Woman which is a fugitivetoys Exclusive, she cost £15 and I love her.
One of my favourite stalls last year was the badge stall as just like last year it was one of the most crowded around, but this year I was determine to buy some and I did. The 3 large badges are for little Miss T and were 3for £5 while the 5 small ones are for me and were 4 for £3 if I remember correctly.
I also couldn't resist adding to our fridge magnet collection with 2 awesome Xmen magnets, one each for the girls, I think these were £2.50 each.
All in all we have a fab day out and now can't wait for the Wales Comic Con Part 2 in November.
x B x
