Hey hey alls I'm back from Rainfurrest (apt name for the weather right now) and it was tonnes of fun and exhausting as hell! Heres a breakdown of the fun and not so fun things that happened to me this weekend.

I picked up the car from my mom thursday afternoon and drove out to pick up  tonic_demonic the two of us then went and hung out at my place for an all nighter of movies and sillyness. At about 5:00am Friday morning we packed up the car and headed down to Seattle. Now this is where the fun begins

Any of you who have visited my profile page know that I am canadian and other who have been following the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) debate know that Canadians can go through channels to be able to sell things in the United States. I went through such channels not fully understanding the rules and I filled my dates wrong.

So I get to the border, the border guard asks the standard questions and when we tell him we are going to a convention, the guard asks me if I am selling anything at the con I am going to and I tell him yes. We get pulled into the office and I hand them my papers and they tell me that I did not have the right paper work. So they gave me two options. At first I was terrified that my stuff would be confiscated or I would be arrested but. They told me I was going to be barred from the country until the end of the weekend (when the con was over) and my passport would be red flagged permanently. My heart sank at this point and I felt the need to cry.

Before I continue I want to thank the border guard that actually was at the booth we pulled into because he came from there to explain my situation to the rest of the crew and take over filing my processing papers. He explained to me that he can not let me into the country with the good I have to sell but he gave me the option to go back home, drop the stuff off and come back with nothing to sell at the convention. I breathed a sigh of relief, though still frustrated I would not have anything to sell at the con I love so much. So we were turned around and went back to  tonic_demonic's place where we dropped off all my goods, save for my luggage, our fursuits and my art supplies.

At the border they looked through the car and let us through without a hassle. I really do what to thank that border guard for being so understanding and kind. He understood that we really wanted to go and that I made an honest mistake. The lesson here is not to lie to the border guards and tell them the truth even if the outcome is not really in your favor as they will be more willing to work with you and work something out even if it was not your original plan.


So we get to the Marriot and I head out to the dealers room determined to sell stuff regardless of my lack of display or my lack of stuff to sell. So I set up my little netbook I brought with a slideshow of my art and write out a commission price list and some other signs. Later on I went to Walmart and bought some foamboard and some cardstock to do commissions on.

Sales went okay the destict lack of art to show people was a hinderance and so was the lack of fursuit example as well. But I did end up doing a few commissions and selling a few fursuit commissions as well along with some of the premade tales I will be shipping out tomorrow and the rest of this week. For those who were not there I had a photo of the pile of tails I was going to bring and sold off of that haha.

Friday evening I didnt do much, I hung out with  temrin and her mate as well as  soulscape and  tonic_demonic I also went to dinner at Jack in the Box where I ate WAY too much and got a little stomach ache lol was so hungry. We met some other furs there who were a little drunk so I offered them a ride back to the hotel

Saturday morning sales went awesome I started selling little $1 badges I would sketch out in front of people and I ended up selling almost 50 of them by saturday end. Saturday night was fun, My group of friend went to the art jam where I got to hang with  Kadath  ksharra and a lot of other amazing artists. After that we went to the room and had a few drinks (well i had more than a few all I can say is I am never drinking tequilla again lol) and at about 3:00am we had some early breakfast at dennys.

Sunday was pretty chill I did a couple more commissions and derp badges but didnt sell that much, spent most of the time wandering the dealers hall looking for last minute awesome from people, ended up getting a metal version of my Lizardbeth con badge from FC and some comics from Furplanet

We left the Marriot at about 5:00 and had no troubles at the border. Will miss you Rainfurrest see you next year