Sticker Frenzy Begins (1 of 52)So earlier, I mentioned - possibly in someone else's livejournal, in a comment - that I took along a blank journal with me to Japan to take notes, possibly draw sketches, and things such as that. I also planned to use it as a book for sticker exchange. This is the first page of the "stickers and drawings" side, which later became a stamp side, as well.
Convention fans in Japan are hugely into sticker collection. At this con, the usual protocol just to say, "Exchange?" and show that you had stickers or a book, and that would start a frenzy of trading, with everyone offering their stickers and getting ones from other fans. Accordingly, each of these stickers represents another fan at the con. Most are Japanese fans; some foreign fans had stickers, but not nearly as reliably. (This situation improved as foreign fen started getting stickers made locally.)
The sticker design I brought with me is in this icon. (It's the Fir Flag of Cascadia, which is graphically not as cool as the Pine Cone Flag on Zapoti, but is a lot easier to design around at the tiny size of these stickers.) Mine were on the standard-sized sticker, which is about 11mmx17mm.
The name of the kitty on the bottom right is ブヨブヨ、or Buyo Buyo, which means "belly belly." We ♥ Buyo Buyo and I ended up getting that sticker twice. The green and white graphic sticker is a parody of Japanese FIRE EXIT signs; normally that's a stick figure human, instead of, well, you know. And cats were
very popular sticker picture subjects, which is why
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spazzkat's sticker - I'll mention it when we get to a page that includes it - was a huge hit.
Don't worry, it's not all stickers. I won't even post all the sticker pages in a row. ^_^
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
