03 January 2024

Comic Con & other stuff

Can you believe that it is already 2024? Where did the last three months of the year 2023 go? We arrived safe and sound from our trip from the cottage to home. During the last week at the cottage, my youngest daughter entered a contest through Instagram and Funko Pop. She could win two tickets to Stockholm and the year 2023 Comic Con. She wrote that she would take along her mother, because she likes Funko Pop and that it would be fun for her to try out her cosplays. 


We hoped that we would win, but there was so many contestants that we thought there would be no chance at all. What a joy when they announced that she had won two tickets and for the whole weekend! We booked a room at a family house, packed our bags and left early Friday and came home late Sunday. It was so much fun and we planned full days, so we could take the best out of the weekend. Workshops, Meet and Greet, panels with celebrities, panels with how to airbrush, make cosplay clothes, how to find a way in the jungle of Star Wars and all those tiny shops selling cute stuff. And food!

Yummy bowls with rice, greens, falafel or chicken and sauce.

Bags!

If you are into Steampunk, you could find great stuff for the cosplay.

A couple of times a day the cosplayers showed their outfits.

Storm troopers from Star Wars.

It was a great weekend, but we were so tired when we got home. Have not even gone through all the photos and films I took during those days. 

Good boys!

Just some days later our friend needed to take a trip to visit his sister and help her with some car issues. He had no room in the car for his dog, because he took some new tires along. It was a long trip, so he could now make it at all. Dante, his dog, stayed with us for two days and one night. It was a blast for them and they really played all day long. And night, if they could, but we had them in separate rooms so they could sleep. 

Then it was time for the holidays! I hope that you had a marvellous Christmas and that the New Year started well. We took it easy at home. Good food, calm walks with Bentley in the snow - finally a white Christmas - and enjoyed our free time. Before Christmas I was busy with my huge essay about another Dante - Alighieri and the Divine Comedy. Made it in time and teacher was happy with my text, got an A.

Meet Martha. The pants is hers, but otherwise she is borrowing stuff.
Such a sneaky one.

Lastly, say hello to Martha. I have not had any time to share a box opening when it comes to her or her story. But here she is - my first Minifee from CP/Fairyland. More about her another day!

Enjoy January and I will visit you soon to see what you have been up to!