WonderCon! (For those of us who can't make it to ComicCon)

We went to WonderCon on Saturday. I was sooooo exicted. I've gone to a couple of these now and am usually on the lookout for more art and artists for signed items. Well, DH got his original sketches from Stan Sakai and Sergio Aragones. Two of his very favorite. I stumbled upon Frank Beddor, who writes the Looking Glass Wars. I couldn't believe it! I was sooo shocked but, it made sense after looking at what was on his table. He had his books and also he collaborated to create another triology,comic book style, based on Hatter Madigan and Alyss's Journal. So, I got both the first trade paperback of the Hatter M. series and Alyss's Journal, signed. I found out about the website with a MMO game and card game....talk about massive overload. There were others there, but nothing else really caught my eye.

We went to SF with my BF, D., another comic geek friend, J. and his friend. D. wanted to go just for the experience, he's not into comic books. He had his fill by 2pm, so he and I went wandering outside the Moscone Center. We stopped at a tea house called Samovar in the Yerba Buena Gardens. It was wonderful. I want to go back to try some of their other foods. I just had a pot of their Moroccan Mint Tea and their plate of tea cookies. Yum! D. had a pot of chai and yummy mint salad.

D. and I also found a gorgeous glass gallery. The gallery is called Liuli after a chinese form of molding the glass. Their museum pieces were so impressive. They also had, what they called, collector's pieces. It was work that they were selling. I would love to have one of their pieces. For the works themselves, the prices were really reasonable. They had some beautiful tea sets as well, mostly ceramic or china.