FanWorks Convention

If you will be staying in the FanWorks con hotel, you can decorate your hotel room door! This is completely optional, but is a fun way to show off your fandoms and general fannishness.


Suggestions for decorating your door:

• You can get as crafty with it as you like; maybe you want to make your door look like Bag End, or a Stargate wormhole, or outer space; go wild.
• You can also get not so crafty with it, if you want to decorate more simply! You can put up some of your favorite (G-rated) images from your fandoms (past and present), fannish memes, etc., and boom, your door is decorated.
• Highlight characters or relationships you love, your favorite quotes, locations, starships etc.
• Show off your Hogwarts/Game of Thrones house crests, or anything else you can be fannishly "sorted" into -- someone just suggested the possibility of "Gryffindoors," and we now pass this pun on to you to do with as you will.
• An easy way to safely decorate your door is to cover it (fully or partially) with craft paper and then add decorations over the paper. This tutorial comes schoolteacher-recommended if you're unfamiliar with covering a door with paper. (Disclaimer: we strongly recommend you use masking/painter's tape and not packing tape, and keep in mind you'll need to cut out space for the card reader -- don't accidentally decorate over your way into your room.)

We will have a limited quantity of plain black craft paper available at registration on Thursday night for covering hotel room doors. If you would like to use the con's craft paper for your door decorations, please sign up in advance here.

(If you don't sign up and there is paper still available, you can request it at registration, but quantities are limited and we won't have enough for every con block hotel room door. We recommend requesting it in advance through the form linked above.)

Scissors and a limited quantity of masking tape for covering doors with craft paper will also be available for loan on Thursday night at registration or on Friday by request at the info desk.

Please read on for our full rules/guidelines on door decorations and further information on what you'll need to bring vs. what we'll provide:

( Guidelines & general information for hotel room door decorations )