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Celebrating My 20th BJD Anniversary

Jan 6, 2026

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    1. March 6, 2006 was the day I welcomed home my very first BJD, a Volks SDC Kurenai, and I want to celebrate the occasion with a big project!

      I'm an illustration student and graphic designer, and I love to incorporate my dolls into personal projects. In the past, I've made a dOLiA*s catalog, a stop-motion movie, and a yearbook. I'm trying to think of what to do for this milestone project and I'm open to suggestions from you! I do have a tabletop gaming course starting next week, and I've been thinking about ways I might be able to sneak my dolls into those projects. Something similar to the Game of Life with the ultimate goal being to collect dolls and not be in debt :lol: As always, I'd love to do this in a full-size human scale and a 1/3 or 1/4 doll scale.

      I'm open to suggestions though, help me brainstorm! :whee:
       
      #1 RamenDoodles, Jan 6, 2026
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    2. Happy dolliversary! I think a game would be wonderful - maybe a pack of playing cards with your dolls on them?
       
      #2 cobaltconduct, Jan 6, 2026
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    3. Congratulations! Happy anniversary! :smallcake

      Taro cards!
       
      #3 AllSmokeAndMirrors, Jan 6, 2026
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    4. A deck of playing or tarot cards could be really cool! I'd have to do a lot of research for a tarot deck though, I just know there's a lot of symbolism involved. But I do like both ideas.
       
      #4 RamenDoodles, Jan 6, 2026
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    5. Happy 20 year anniversary!!
       
      #5 tinyflame, Jan 7, 2026
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    6. If you like games and doll photography, perhaps a choose your own adventure photostory?
       
      #6 saraquill, Jan 8, 2026
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    7. Maybe you could make the dolls as illustrations for NPC characters in your TTRPG?
       
      #7 RabbidBunnies, Jan 8, 2026
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    8. I just did a choose-your-own-adventure/paper doll book for my book making class last semester :) Coming up with the story was the hardest part. :lol: Something to keep in mind for the future though for sure!

      Ooh that could be fun!
       
      #8 RamenDoodles, Jan 8, 2026
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    9. Happy anniversary! May will also mark my 20th year of being a bad collector!
       
      #9 Stormlight, Jan 18, 2026
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    10. YAY! Happy Anniversary! :sumomo: I remember your stop-motion film. I really liked it. :D

      This March also marks my 20th anniversary too. I got my DIM Persia and a Dollmore Amos Adam in March 2006. Boy! Things sure have changed a lot since then.

      You are so lucky to be artistically talented! People who can draw are amazing. A full-size human scale of one of your dolls would be epic. Or, maybe, how about making your own comic book with your dolls; graphic novel style.
       
      #10 Rabbit-moon, Jan 30, 2026
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    11. I love seeing long time collectors in the bjd hobby. I am on my 5th year for bjd but have had a doll collection for over 25 years. I’m glad I found this forum and happy 20th @RamenDoodles!
       
      #11 NineOneThree, Jan 31, 2026
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    12. Congrats!!! I'm in year 22 of the BJD hobby myself. I loved your work on the dOLiA*s catalog so much and I took the chance of you linking to it to look through it again - I never grow tired of it.
      As for a game, I'm still heavily addicted to tabletop escape room games and something like that with a dolls related story would be really cool. (I love horror themed ER games the most, but your stuff is always so brainmeltingly lovely and cute, so that doesn't help :XD:)
       
      #12 Mandagore, Jan 31, 2026
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