It’s time for the final Dealer Showcase!

With the convention only a little over a couple of weeks away, we thought we’d give you one last reminder of a few more dealers that will be in the den! This time around, Quickwind Studios, Neweinstein and Raes Suits!

There’s also some final dealers den information, and a reminder about our art show!

As with the previous showcase postings, the material has been provided by the dealers themselves

Quickwind Studios

“Here’s what I’m bringing to the dealers den this year;

I’ll be taking at-con commissions in badges, sketches and full colour works of an anthro/fantasy variety. I’ll have prints available from my portfolio, along with some postcards and buttons. I will also be selling some CDs from my brass band, which I designed the artwork cover for. I will also offer conbadge repairs and lamination. Here’s some of my galleries: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/jet3270/ (one or two NFSW pieces) or clean stuff: http://jet3270.deviantart.com/

I will be sharing my table with Stonehill Stitchcraft!

Many thanks!”

Neweinstein

“At my place in the Dealers Den you will find high-quality FineArt prints of my photographic portraits of different animals like lions, tigers, wolves and of course snow leopards. I will have different print sizes available, some also including a high quality assepartout. From each sold print a certain percentage will go to the “Snow Leopard Trust” (http://www.snowleopard.org) as a donation to support the rescue of those wonderful cats.

you can go to my FA page and get a first impression what to expect (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/neweinstein) or learn a bit about who I am at WikiFur (http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Neweinstein)”

Raes Suits

“I will be selling resin bases for heads in different animal forms and in many different sizes, along with various different other fursuit parts. I will also have notebooks available on which you can get your fursona drawn on (a reference sheet will be needed for this which can also be e-mailed in advance). I will also have badge commissions available and will be open for fursuit commission.

More information can be found at my two FurAffinity accounts http://www.furaffinity.net/user/raessuits (fursuit related) and http://www.furaffinity.net/user/raereira(art related)[adult content]“

Den Information!

As with previous years, we’re open on the Saturday & Sunday of the convention. and we know that many of you will be wanting to get in as early as possible to grab the best stuff, and get your commissions in with your favourite artists.  We’re open from 11AM on Saturday (or 10AM if you’re a sponsor!), and 10AM on Sunday.

Just browsing?  Want to pop in again later in the day?  The den is open until 6PM on Saturday, and 5PM on Sunday – keep coming back to see what else is going on!

As usual, the convention has its own table where we’ll be selling ConFuzzled themed merchandise, including items from previous years at a discount price, and we do plan to accept Credit & Debit cards once again!

If you are bringing art to the auction – please remember it’s preferable to bring it on the Friday.  We will accept items on the Saturday at the discretion of the auction administration staff, usually subject to available room.

That’s it!  Excited?  We sure are!  Bring plenty of money, and buy yourself some furry items to take home and treasure forever!

It’s time for another Dealer Showcase!  The Convention is starting to get really close now, and so we’ve selected another batch of dealers that have written a few words of their own describing what you’ll find on their tables this year!
This time around, TaniDaReal, Playfur & Swandog Studio!  Also you can read about our art show & auction, and also there’s a reminder about our sponsor perk & registration deadline!

TaniDaReal

“I will have the following items/artwork for sale at my table: Original pencil sketches, Mood Badges + Add-Ons, Prints, Jumbo prints, T-Shirts (HOT / COOL), Calendars, Portfolios, etc. I will also take a certain number of commissions (sketches / badges). Please also visit my artwork in the Art Show.

Website: www.tanidareal.com FA: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/tanidareal
Best regards TaniDaReal”

PlayFur

“ A selection of adult prints from Playfur on sale, and on preview will be playfur’s first ever comic! Don’t forget to come and have a look over it!. Aside from that there will also be a limited sale of high quality digital commissions and also a limited(yes limited!) order of fancy badges (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7471575).

These badges have been requested by lots of people and CF attendees will get first orders before being advertised to other cons! -See more of Bhav’s work at http://www.furaffinity.net/user/bhavfox/ [adult content] or visit www.playfur.com [adult content]

Also Ultrafox will be on the table selling his prints, badges and commissions http://www.furaffinity.net/user/ultrafox [adult content]“

Swandog Studio

“I  will be selling art prints and a few original art pieces, as well as offering face-painting and body-painting (on arms, hands and shoulders, “tattoo”-style) of your fursona or of any other fandom chars/symbols. Please bring references/char sheets of anything specific you’d like to have painted. I may also be doing simple sketch commissions and conbadges at the con.

http://swandog.deviantart.com/ :: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/swandog/ http://swandogstudio.com/

Face/Bodypainting examples: http://swandog.deviantart.com/gallery/5846180 Sketch examples (the simple, non-shaded, lineart ones): http://swandog.deviantart.com/gallery/8288613 “

ConFuzzled Art Show & Auction

As in previous years we’ll have our art show and auction as another chance to purchase furry artwork.

Don’t forget to stop by the art show to check out what’s available, and if you’re bidding, stop back regularly to check if you’re still winning!  Many items make it all the way to the voice auction on Sunday night, and you’ll want to make sure you don’t miss out so turn up and bid!

Many items also carry a donation to the charity as a percentage of the final sale price, so by participating in the auction you’ll also be helping our charity too!

Reminder: Sponsor Extra & Registration Deadline

Those of you who’ve been to ConFuzzled will no doubt be aware that on the first day of the Dealers Den, Sponsors get entry an hour early! That means Sponsors get first pick of the hottest merchandise, special items from our guest of honour, ConFuzzled merchandise AND get your commissions in first!

If you’d like to upgrade your membership at the convention, please head over to the registration system and edit your membership – don’t forget to pay the upgrade in good time! Alternatively, email registration@confuzzled.org.uk for help!

Not yet registered? You’re running out of time!  Residential registration closes on 20th April.  If you would like to register, please visit https://reg.confuzzled.org.uk – and if you have friends you’d like to see at the convention who haven’t registered yet either, then don’t forget to bug them!

Thats all from us, but keep your eyes peeled for the next edition of CF2012 Dealer Showcase!

In order to sign up for your badge(s), you can do so by clicking on the following link: http://bit.ly/Ivpka8 - if you want to sign up for multiple badges, simply re-submit your new details.

We regret we are unable to offer onsite printing this year, and the final submittal date will be 1st May.  Therefore, to ensure you do not miss out, make sure you get your details registered before its to late!

See you all at ConFuzzled 2012,

The Fursuit Team

The staff of ConFuzzled work hard to make the convention enjoyable for all its attendees, but it wouldn’t run quite as smoothly without the help of the team of volunteers that give up some of their time to help us make sure everyone else has a good time.

“What’s in it for me?”, I hear you ask? Financially and physically, not a lot – it’s not a paid role, but then again neither is a staff one. Volunteering means giving your time freely, because of which it’s up to you exactly how much time you want to give. Some people help for a few hours with setup and takedown of the stage, others help for the duration of the convention – it’s all down to you. What you receive is recognition and thanks for the task you carry out, as it means the attendees have events that run smoothly and that the staff aren’t stressed out the *entire* weekend!

“What might I be asked to do?”, you say? All sorts of things, from herding cats, I mean, attendees into/out of events safely, setting up rooms before and after events, checking the state of the headless lounge & keeping water containers topped up, frankly anything that Ops might ask of you. No heavy lifting *should* be involved, but there may be a few large bits of kit to shift about, so please take this into consideration when attending the morning briefings and mention it to staff if it’s an issue.

“How many hours do I have to do?” – as many or as few as you want. It’s all voluntary. (However, in our eyes, it’s the more the merrier, but that’s just to make our job a little bit easier!). There’s no set shifts you have to do, but we like to have at least a couple of gophers on hand most of the time. An informal rota is easily worked out at the beginning of the convention at the volunteer briefing.

“Okay, I’ve read all that and I still want to help. What now?” – You do? Thank you! What you need to do now is drop an e-mail to logistics@confuzzled.org.uk with your name (Badge & Real names please), attendee number (we can only accept volunteers from convention attendees, if you are not a fully paid up attendee you cannot volunteer), a short history of any previous volunteer work that you feel may be useful/relevant and a brief blurb about what you’d like to be doing to help. Please also include any restrictions (No heavy lifting, no public-side work) you may have, an indication of how many hours you might be able to help out and any events that you *don’t* want to miss so that we can plan around them.

Thanks for reading this far & hopefully applying to be one of our gophers, your help is most appreciated!

See you in May!

Kyyanno
ConFuzzled Logistics/Medical

Ticket prices are £15 per person, and can be bought from the Hotel Reception either on Thursday, or Friday.

The 4 star rating of the Barceló Hinckley Island Hotel is very much reflected in the quality of their food, brought to you by an award winning chef, and the catering team have specially crafted a menu for ConFuzzled that will not only tantalize the taste buds of meat eaters, but also takes very much into account those of you who are vegetarian. For further information, please check the Dining section of our website or alternatively, you can email venue@confuzzled.org.uk

The Dealers den is an important part of the convention, and allows you a fantastic opportunity to buy gifts for yourself and others.  Whether it’s purchasing furry art, getting a commission or two of your character / persona, or snapping up some ConFuzzled memorabilia, the Den is the place to go for all your shopping needs!

The best news is that with our new venue offering us more space, we’ve got even MORE dealers in the den this year, and that means that even if you’ve been coming to ConFuzzled since the beginning, there are bound to be some new dealers that you’ve not seen in the den before!

This year we’ve asked our Dealers to write their own promotional material for us to include, so in most cases what you see below are their own words on what you can find on their tables this year.

This time around we’re highlighting our Guest of Honour, FunLaser, FarukuCostumes, and SpiritRaptor!  Also, don’t forget to read about our Sponsors-only early opening AND the ConFuzzled SALE!!

Colson Grainger

Our guest of honour is of course the talented Colson – singer, pianist, musical performer, we’re sure he’ll keep you entertained.  From our website:

Don’t be alarmed if you find yourself tapping your feet and swaying when the rock and pop themes begin to play from Colson’s guitar, keyboard or voice as this talented performer has two albums to his name, he’s performed live at Feral! 2010 and Midwest FurFest 2011, and his videos have had over a million views on YouTube.

Expect to see and hear him at the many musical events we’ll be running this year including the Music Jam and our other musical workshops.

You’ll also see more of him in the Den, where he’ll be joined by Fox Amoore who works closely with Colson producing backing music for his songs and other musical work. If you’d like to take Colson’s sound home with you (and why wouldn’t you?), then head over to their table armed with cash!

Want to hear more?  Head over to Colson’s YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/tratledge

FunLaser

“Heya from Funlaser. Once again we’ll be dealing and have brought along some very special  shiny objects for you to peruse. Along with our usual items of DogTags, Pet/Collar Tags, BadgeTags and LED goodies. We’ll  also be bringing along a few special items that will only be available in the run up to, and at the con. These special items include: Clapperboards (both prop size and badges) and Filmstrip LED badges to fit the movie theme and Wooden DogTags and pegs to fit the 5th anniversary material theme.

Once again we’ll be supplying every attendee with a DogTag and you can get your name on the reverse for £1. We’ll also be able to engrave your drinking vessel. We are also working with a few other artists/dealers to bring some other unique and shiny objects to you Such as LED collars and lasered leather keyrings with Spiritraptor, Hand drawn Filmstrip badges with Panthras and a few secret items with Shirik. We’ll also be providing a few things for auction so keep your eyes peeled.

This year we’ll be running a slot based system. As such we’ll be opening for pre-orders the month or so before the Con so you can buy the item you want and collect at the Con Keep your eyes on http://furry.funlaser.co.uk for more information. We’ll also announce on UKfur, CF forums and our FA page http://www.furaffini…/user/funlaser/ when we open for pre-orders.

Will catch you all at the movies.”

FarukuCostumes

“Welcome to FarukuCostumes! This is a home for unique and customised fursuits and accessories. A small company based in the United Kingdom aiming to make beautiful high quality products to your specifications, currently a solo company run by myself, I specialise in creating eye catching semi-realistic critters.

At Confuzzled 2012 FarukuCostumes will be selling a variety of tails, handpaws, tail keychains, Ears and a ready-to-wear partial fursuit. Being an illustrator as well as a fursuit maker I will also be taking on-the-spot art commissions while at the table. Don’t be afraid to come along and say hello and see all the fuzzy wares we have to offer!

To see examples of work please visit:
Fursuit Work: http://faruku.webs.com/
Artwork: http://laura-croft.artworkfolio.com/“

SpiritRaptor

“Yes! It’s that time of the year again when you get to frolic around the dealers den perusing packages and ogling art, checking out peoples wares and widgets! Spiritraptor AKA Leathersaurus is going to be back in full force with a whole new range of Artwork and Leather Gear, including some awesome collaboration work with the amazing Funlaser staff.

Like last year we will have some usual bits, leather key-rings, some basic collar designs including some fun collars and cuffs on the cheaper end of the scale. However we will also be bringing some more detailed, premium collars for those of you that want to look flash, also including some amazing LED tags Also I’ll be debuting my new show collar to go into the art auction, The DragonRune; The story behind it shrouded in mystery and intrigue

On the Art front I will be taking sketch commissions both digital and traditional also including some more CF exclusive prints, only available at this event for this time only! There is also talk about having some art CDs and maybe even some portfolios to bring down as well, so stay tuned!

http://www.furaffini…r/spiritraptor/ [Note: Some adult content in gallery]
http://www.spiritraptor.com/gear.jpg <<Tiny snapshot of some of the gear of going to bring”

ConFuzzled Merchandise, Charity Items & SALE!

As usual we’ll have the obligatory selection of ConFuzzled merchandise, and no – it’s not another mug this year! Come check out this years hot merchandise including new stuff for 2012!

Our Charity is kindly furnishing us with toys and gifts that you can buy from our charity table with ALL proceeds going to the charity!

Finally … we’ve got a SALE on!  Yes, thanks to us having some surplus from previous years, the management have decided it’s time for us to shift it!  So, we’ll be making some BIG discounts on previous years merchandise, and you can snap up a bit of history!  It’s the perfect solution in a downbeat economy!

Sponsor Extra!

Those of you who’ve been to ConFuzzled will no doubt be aware that on the first day of the Dealers Den, Sponsors get entry an hour early!  That means Sponsors get first pick of the hottest merchandise, special items from our guest of honour, ConFuzzled merchandise AND get your commissions in first!

If you’d like to upgrade your membership at the convention, please head over to the dealer registration system and edit your membership – don’t forget to pay the upgrade in good time!  Alternatively, email registration@confuzzled.org.uk for help!

Not yet registered? What are you waiting for?! Goto https://reg.confuzzled.org.uk – registration for residential memberships closes April 20th!

MORE DEALERS!

Finally, if you’re looking for the full list of dealers in our den this year, please go here to view the current details: http://www.confuzzle…firmed-dealers/

Thats all from us, but keep your eyes peeled for the next edition of CF2012 Dealer Showcase!

After this date, you will not be able to register for ConFuzzled 2012′s residential registrations! So if you would like to stay at the wonderful Barceló Hinckley Island hotel, the venue for ConFuzzled 2012, you must make sure you register by then, and to make your payment in time for it to reach us by the deadline for your chosen payment method.

At this point in time, we will also lock down the ability to amend your registration. This includes convention badge pictures, so make sure you’ve uploaded your badge picture before the 20th of April!

After the 20th of April, we will still be selling our non-Residential registrations (i.e. Attending Only tickets) which will allow you access to the entire Convention – you would however need to find accommodation elsewhere. It is NOT possible to book directly with the hotel.

On the 18th of May 2012 at 8pm British Standard Time, registration will close completely for all ticket types. And just a few days later, we’ll be welcoming you to ConFuzzled 2012!

Whilst we’re talking about our registration… the red carpet will be rolled out earlier than in the past! For those of you that have chosen the “Early Arrival” option (and therefore arriving on Thursday 24th of May), registration at-con will be open Thursday evening between 8pm and 10pm. There’s no need to wait til the Friday afternoon to register – you can show off your movie star status straight away! And on Friday, registration will be open from 10am. We wouldn’t want to make the stars of ConFuzzled 2012 wait now would we?

We are pleased to announce that Party Suite Registrations are now open!  You can find out more and register here!

Please ensure that you have read and understood the terms and conditions of sale before signing up. Also, please remember that rooms are sold on a first come, first served basis and that completing the registration form does not guarantee you a suite.

If you have any questions, please contact venue@confuzzled.org.uk

Take a look here for more information.