We have an update from our Chairman, Jenny Evans.
There have been some questions about whether or not we will be selling dealer's room passes on the day of the convention, and we wanted to address that here on the website.
There will be no passes of any kind sold at the door for the 2012 convention. Regular member registration is closed, and we will not be selling day passes, vendor room passes, or full memberships at the door. 

We're sorry if this causes any inconvenience. We discussed this at length during our meetings, and we understand that some other events do offer something like a limited pass or "dealer's room only" membership. Our chairman has made the executive decision to be as fair as possible to our supporting members. We are building a bigger and better convention for the future, but at this time we do not have the resources to provide a secure separate space for the dealers, so there is no way to create a separate "pass". Our special guests are also dealer's so we felt that anyone coming to see the guests should purchase a full membership and support our convention.

If you have any questions, please contact our Jenny, the Chairman:
chairman@stlbjdcon.com

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.

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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 volunteer@stlbjdcon.com to talk to Emily!
  
• Our next committee meeting will be on August 10th. For more information, visit our forums or the yahoo group.