Registration goes from $75 to $100 starting on Saturday, so be sure to register now!

Click here to register for the convention!

News! Planning on going? Thinking about joining us as a vendor? Our dealer's room is juried this year, and decisions have yet to be made! If you pre-register now, your registration cost will be applied towards your vendor rate - you just pay the difference when you're approved. And you get brownie points with us! :)

Click here for vendor registration information.

Sarah just gave us permission to post the prototype pictures of our convention doll!

Introducing Spark the Wyvern!

From Sarah, "He may be available in a few different resin colors. I am considering blue, pink, and green :)

Comparison with Singe the Dragon and Flicker the Mini Dragon"

Spark the Wyvern will be available on our Kickstarter pre-registration at the $200 level - our Kickstarter runs through August 31st. Click the link on the right to visit our Kickstarter page and pre-register today!

This is our last weekend for our special Kickstarter pre-registration! As a reminder, this is the best way to register for the convention, because it guarantees you a spot at the convention. This is also the best way to get the official convention doll, as the Mushroom Peddler needs to send out her pre-orders in September!

As a special suprise for you, here's one of the videos we made while we were working on the video on the Kickstarter website - Dollies Anonymous!

Click here to pre-register for the convention!

Hi All!

A group of us are heading westward to Kansas City to visit our fellow dolly enthusiasts across the state! If you're in the area, visit their Den of Angels meetup thread for directions on how to join us tomorrow!

Edit 8/19: Hi to all our Kansas City (and Witchita) friends! We had an amazing time! :D

Be sure to pass on the convention information to your dolly friends! We really recommend pre-registering this month, especially for those exclusive opportunities we're giving as thank yous to helping us start our convention!

Our vendor registration is also open! Click here for more info!

We are utilizing the Kickstarter for our pre-registration. Amazon will only charge you on August 31st if we meet our goal, so pledge NOW to guarantee your spot.

Be sure to spread the word - it's always more fun when you're friends join you at a convention, and registering early can get you exclusive benefits, such as the official convention t-shirt and seating with our guests of honor at the banquet!

Click here to pre-register for the 2012 St. Louis BJD Convention!

Pre-registration tickets are available in August on our Kickstarter website. Click here to learn more about Kickstarter. To assure a ticket to this convention, register on the St. Louis BJD Convention Kickstarter. Your pledge will be collected after August 31 when the Kickstarter ends. Your pledge will guarantee you a ticket. After August 31st, if there are any tickets still available, pre-registration will be conducted on this website until October 15th.

And we just got a mention on BJD's for Beginners! Yay Alison!
Also, thanks to BJDCollectasy for the mention!

Our Kickstarter is currently ready to go, we're waiting on final review from Kickstarter staff before it goes live. We're REALLY excited for it to start! Check back often because it could happen at any time now!

I'm really bad about anticipation!

While we wait, we'd like to share some information about Kickstarter for those of you who may not know about it yet.

Kickstarter is a way for independent creative people to receive funding for projects through crowd-sourcing, which means that many people donate smaller amounts as opposed to one large scale grant.

Kickstarter is also all-or-nothing funding - this means that a Kickstarter project has a set monetary goal. If it achieves this goal, the project is funded by the friends, family, and fans that backed the project. If it doesn't achieve the goal, the project isn't funded, but the friends, family, and fans also don't lose money on the project - in fact, funding is never taken until a project is backed.

But what do you get in return? Besides the joy of helping someone's hard work and dreams pay off in the completion of a project, Kickstarter gives rewards for backing a project to donators. This can be hand-made items, admission to the event, original customized art, special events, and many more! Not only that, but many of the items will only ever be offered just for the Kickstarter, as a thank you to those who really make a project happen!

If that still seems a bit fuzzy, here's the Kickstarter FAQ for more information.



Because this is the first year for this convention, we don't have the start up funding that is normally created by the previous year's convention. We want to make sure we can offer our convention goers an amazing experience, bring in guests from across the country to share their art, feed people, and generate a following that will help us grow and spread the word so that we can not only provide a great show for this year, but for future years to come!

We also wanted to make sure people could be a part of this project even if they can't attend this year. That's why we have both pre-registration reward levels and really nifty items at lower levels, some of them exclusive to the Kickstarter and/or convention, many of them hand made by professional artisans, crafters, embroiderers, costumers, and authors - that's us!

We will have multiple levels of pre-registration - they start with the base $75 registration, then there are additional levels to add on to the convention experience, such as a photoshoot, the official embroidered STLBJDCON t-shirt, our official convention doll, opportunities to attend exclusive panels, seating with our guests of honor at the convention's banquet, and more!



As soon as the Kickstarter is live, we'll post about it here, on facebook, our yahoo group, on Den of Angels, DairyLand BJD, and anywhere else we can think of (check out our Links page to find the other place we hang out). Please share with family, friends, even strangers - we've met some of our members just by talking to someone at work or at an event! Kickstarters work best by passing along the information, because you never know who may hear about it if word goes around!

Whoops!

Don't worry, we're still super busy working on the convention! We want to make sure everything is correct since this is the first year, and the legal and financial process is taking us longer than we were anticipating (note to those who want to start a convention - LLC paperwork takes a lot longer than you would think!). We aren't able to start the Kickstarter until the paperwork settles, but this should happen within the next week. We will keep you updated as we get things ready!

Here's the update:

• The Kickstarter will start on August the 1st and run through August 31st.
• Pre-registration for the convention will be on the Kickstarter during the month of August. This includes regular pre-registration (with official t-shirt) and pre-registration including the limited edition convention doll!
• We have some really awesome prizes in store for the Kickstarter. Even if you can't make it to the convention this year, there's some really cool stuff for supporting us!
• We will have vendor registration information up tonight. Check the vendor page for more information.
  
• Would you like to help us out? Feel free to pass on convention information to others! You can also volunteer - email [email protected] to talk to Emily!
  
• Our next committee meeting will be on August 10th. For more information, visit our forums or the yahoo group.
  
  

We're finalizing our plans for the Kickstarter, and we're hoping to have it start on within the next week or so!

We're also finalizing plans for vendor pre-registration and hope to have that ready within the next week or so. We'll host pre-registration on Kickstarter and vendor registration on the website, so stay tuned and we'll announce here when we're ready to go!

Pic: Doraro is hanging out with the penguin statues at the St. Louis Zoo!