These cupcakes are topped with spider picks – also from Michaels. We also served lots of delicious Halloween bites including cookies, cupcakes and tombstone shaped mini cakes – all on a table decorated with various trays and table accessories from my collection at Michaels.Įveryone loved the Halloween inspired cupcakes on my Michaels tiered stand. They served selections from Martha Stewart Wine Co. Our wait staff is also dressed for the occasion. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for Michaels) Our pumpkin patch is filled with stenciled craft pumpkins, signs and project ideas using my artwork from the Cricut DesignSpace. Here I am in our pumpkin patch holding a white Michaels craft pumpkin painted with stencils made with the Cricut Explore Air™ 2 Martha Stewart Edition. We decorated two of our large studios complete with all sorts of fun Halloween decorations from my collection at Michaels.
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Do you ever have to pinch yourself to make sure this is all real? How exciting is it for you?įiona Staples: Very! It continues to be a huge thrill that people are enjoying the book so much. Thanks to Fiona for putting this together with me, and I’d tell you to go buy “Saga” today, but I trust that you already are.Ģ013 was another banner year for Saga, as sales continue to increase, every award known to man was bestowed the book and often yourself, and the comic just continue to capture the love of readers. We talk today about the success they’ve seen with the book so far, the way her and Brian work together, her emotional connection with the story, the most adorable characters in the book, the art of comic covers, and much more. Staples has long been a personal favorite, as her work on “North 40” still stands as the record for me going from “who is this person?” to “I am going to buy everything she does!” Her work elevates each and every issue, page and panel of “Saga”, taking a book with witty scripts, great characters and a top notch premise and pushing it up to a level that makes it arguably the best book in comics today. We have a special edition Artist Alley today, as we welcome our Best Artist of the Year – Fiona Staples – to talk about her work on the year in “Saga”, as we break down a year in panels and pages from her runaway hit with writer Brian K. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him-and face the consequences. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. They will live forever.Īnd Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. Discover Holly Black's blood thirsty bestselling The Folk of the Air series in this gorgeous hardcover gift set including: The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King, and The Queen of Nothing. His obsession is Amy, a woman he met seemingly by chance, who has made the rest of his existence-including his fiancee-seem drab and lifeless. “His pounding head, the pain in every movement and act and thought, seemed to have as its cause and remedy her, and only her and only her and only her,” rhapsodizes Dorrigo Evans, a surgeon who will be hailed as a national hero for his leadership in World War II, though he feels deeply unworthy. But the novel’s deep flaw is a pivotal plot development that aims at the literary heights of Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary but sounds too often like a swoon-worthy bodice ripper. The scenes of Australian POWs held by the Japanese have power and depth, as do the postwar transformations of soldiers on both sides. A literary war novel with a split personality, about a protagonist who loathes his dual character.Īmbition leads to excess in the sixth novel by Flanagan ( Wanting, 2009, etc.), a prizewinning writer much renowned in his native Australia. |