CCBJD California BJD convention May 2012 Disscussion

Is there at door registration? :3

 

How about times for main events-- like the hours of the con and the banquet?

 

THANKS, Aichan! That helps a lot!

 

I'm getting so nervous and excited!!!

 

Ah, I'd love to go! But I don't have a car and I live in San Francisco/Colma. If anyone is going both days and lives in my area who wouldn't mind giving me (and a possible plus 1) a ride, I'd chip in for parking!

 

Aw will the convention be in southern cali next year or is it promenent in one area @o@' I live in the LA region. Hope i can attend sometime in the future

 

There is already a SoCal event in Nov each year.
It's run by Bruce and I think it was linked somewhere back a couple pages.

 

YAY there's a stringing tutorial!!!!

 

Thank you for the links appreciate that i didnt see where it was posted ^_^ and yeah i cant wait! im not sure if ill be in the U.S next year hopefully there is some gatherings or events in Austria x.x; since its most likely where ill be living soon @__@!! ill figure that out when i move there xD!!

 

oh god im super excited! me and my boy have been saving for this for MONTHS! (and we've been bored out of our minds hanging around the house since everything fun to do around our area costs money and we were DETERMINED to have plenty of money to have fun on this trip!!!)

and even though shes not finished being de-yellowed im even going to string together my GoD Nabiya elf named Io and bring her along for her debut in my dollie family!

ive been trying to convince myself that i shouldnt bring my whole dollie family and it is proving a most difficult battle with myself indeed!

i know for sure im bringing along my twins and my dariel... and i WANT to bring along Io but my other girl and boy want to come along too... such a difficult battle!

and i plan on bringing my floating head along too... and hopefully mabey find someone with a wig that will fit him!

just too excited! (but this is ALSO going to be my vacation so after the con we're hitting up museums and the beach and gettin us some seafood on the fishermans warf!)

 

will there be places/tables so we can display our dolls at the banquet and during the con?

 

leaving right now! see you at the con tommorow everyone!

 

Astrid, thank you for a great show...Pam and I had a blast! We're definitely looking forward to the next CCBJD!

 

Thank you so much Astrid. You and your team did an incredible job with this fun event. This was my very first BJD convention/show and it was more than awesome. Lovely venue, easy parking, lots of prizes, lots of photo op areas, great vendors, wonderful people and their beautiful dolls and a delicious luncheon to top it all off. I did not want to leave lol!

 

It was a wonderful and fun event! Thanks for organizing it.
Very beautiful and comfortable venue. Buffet lunch couldn't have been better.. Very reasonably priced to attend. Many prizes and winners.

 

Hi Astrid- wonderful day yesterday and such a beautiful venue. Nice friendly people and lots of beautiful dolls! And I got some bargains- couple of wigs, some yellow (!!!) boots and a hat.
And thank you to whoever it was that donated the rainbow feather wings- my new Pixiu is going to trade his resin wings in for those!
Astrid- I hope you are AT HOME with your feet up getting some rest and patting yourself on your back for putting on such a nice event!

 

I hope someone posts pics in the gallery!!! I'm dying to see what I missed!

 

well my excuse for saving money for months on end and driving four hours to this con was that it was the week of my 22nd birthday and this was going to be my birthday prezzie to myself... but i wound up getting spoiled rotten at this lovely event!

first i found a gorgeous pair of blue glass eyes, an adoreable strawberry shortcake outfit and even a cute blonde 6/7 wig for my rescue girl Io who had nothing yet of her own!

AND i got to see old friends and make plenty of new ones, shop around a wide variety of lovely dealers and eat a most delicious meal of two of my favorate foods... pasta with alfredo sauce and strawberries and cantelope!!!

BUT i also got some wonderful birthday preasents in the form of raffel prizes! first i got a cute punk-style slim MSD outfit for my red ticket and THEN i got an absoluetly adoreable cutie girl slim MSD dress and outfit for my boyfriend's red ticket~

but the icing on the cake was just as i was getting ready to leave when my wonderful yellow ticket won me a little monica Kliff head in normal skin who is just perfect for my OC Kari whom i have been planning on getting in doll form since i joined the BJD hobby to begin with... HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY EVER!

... OR SO I THOUGHT!

its got better... i was kinda sad cus i had wanted to buy the resinsoul mei in white skin that was for sale at the junkyspot table but by the time i finally mustered the courage to just go spend the money and buy her she was gone, and they said that a different girl had bought her already! but when we got back to our hotel from the con i made the wonderful discovery that my sweet boyfriend had actually bought her for me as a surprise birthday prezzie! her name is Luka and i love and adore her to death!

all in all this is the happiest birthday i can remember since i was ten and my dad reserved celebration station for my birthday party (a place kinda like chucky cheese back in texas)

i SO cant wait for the next ccbjd con and i plan on dragging even more friends along with me next time too!

 

A very cute location (we saw the deer!) and Aichan and her husband were extremely nice and welcoming! They worked so hard and well together!
Little-reisuke - your bf told us that he had bought you the bjd as a surprise and we thought - what a lucky collector!!!!
Alex

 

I'd like to echo everyone in saying thanks to you both, Astrid and Richard, for making my first con such a memorable experience. I can't believe I got my 2nd doll ever there (thanks to junkyspot). I love my snow white island doll Aggie and she will make a good companion to my tan planetdoll Tara. I can't wait to edit the pictures I took and send them over to y'all.

 

what a great event...totally worth the trip..Thanks Astrid! ! !

 

Started a photo thread....wish I had more time during the event to take photos! ! ! !
I was so busy meeting people it was hard to make time to do it.

http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?517864-CCBJD-in-Fairfax

 

Ohhhh! That is so SWEET!!!! Such a great story!!!!

It was nice to meet you AND everyone else... and see old friends.

The venue was just lovely! There were so many fantastic vendors. The hotel was really nice, too. And Marin and the Bay Area-- you can't lose being there: so beautiful and so much to see and do. It was totally worth the long drive from SoCal. Thank you, everyone, for organizing the con, for contributing prizes, for selling wonderful items and for attending. j



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anyone find a red/pink striped datebook? it's probably tucked away somewhere, but I thought I'd ask, just in case I dropped it somewhere at the con...

 

Nevermind about my Notebook! I found it! Yay!

'Hope everyone else finds their items...

 

I'm not sure if this was ever posted on the CCBJD.org website but, as the official photographer for the event, here are the photos I took. They are posted on my website: http://johannemoorephotography.smugmug.com/Events/California-Coast-Ball-Jointed/23112240_TrsTn8

 

Lovely photos, Katzy!