Meme: Some confession sharing?

These types of threads generally get a little heated and locked down
But my confession is: Of all the dolls I own and have owned (and that's a lot!) my very favorite is Valentine, my Volks F-32. Shhhhh! Don't tell the other dolls!

 

I've got one, I touch my doll's faces all the time.

 

I sometimes want to sell all my dolls and start fresh with a tiny crew...

 

Sometimes I will read through the "Problem transaction" threads for the drama.....*wince*

 

My lone MSD lives on my bed because I don't have shelf space for her and I don't want to put her up on the bureau because I'm afraid she'll get knocked off somehow.

 

You're not the only one. xD But I'm also an idiot that gets scammed easily but now I'm more aware.

 

I just brought home my MDD Rena and already have moments when I think it was a mistake, moments when I think of selling her.
I just don't really know what to do with her, and she's also a lot chunkier than I envisioned her to be.
Is that what people mean when they talk about not being able to bond with a doll? I'm a sad Panda. Sigh...

 

OH! ME TOO! but then I look at my crew and I love them all, even though they just sit there and look pretty.

 

I do that.

 

Sometimes I think I owe it to (fill in the blanks) to sell all the dolls and use the money for something more useful than beautiful. But then I decide to keep them all and maybe add another!

 

I do that sometimes too. I seem to have a boring life so a little drama is nice.

I have spent a lot of time just browsing the internet for dolls when my parents think I'm doing homework.

 

I think I am turning into a bit of a BJD junkie. I keep telling myself that I'm going to stick with the resin BJD dolls I have, all 10 of them, cough, blush, but I'm not sure I am going to be able to stick to that. I'm going to try but putting together inexpensive hybrid BJD's is so much fun and I keep seeing heads I really, really like...

 

Omg Elysion gear I do the same thing! I'm really bad, I read them all the way to the end! >_<

 

...I smell my doll's clothes >.>" They smell good. Even if it makes them uncomfortable.

 

My confession is I don't like the look of plasticy looking resin, but my own doll has that shine to it.....

 

A lot of recent sculpts are too weird for me. I know artists need to do something different to stand out, but to my financial benefit, there's a lot less temptation now than there was, say, three years ago.

Which has nothing to do with my other confession: I modded my favourite doll, and now she can't stand properly. Elena, I'm so sorry!

 

Sometimes I want to sell all of my dolls and buy a horde of tinies. Like, super tiny dolls. Micro-Bjds.

...:3

 

I iron my dolls clothes if they look wrinkled.

 

I have an NS head on a WS body and I don't plan to change it anytime soon. Blushing may happen, though.

 

Sometimes I think I love my dolls' diorama more than I love my dolls themselves

 

Oh, I do too LOL Drama drama!!

I started collecting tiny THINGS long before resin BJDs were even around - I remember when my kids were little looking longingly thru the American Doll catalog wishing I could afford them for my girls but MAINLY just dying to get all their furniture & stuff!!!!!

 

I want to try my hand at resin dying, but I'm super terrified of wrecking my dolls... So I'm going through their extra parts, trying to decide whose feet and original hands I don't mind sacrificing to science and I feel like they're all super horrified at the thought. Like, "But what if I WANT those hands again and you dyed them purple??!!!" xD;

 

I'm saving to get all the characters from my story, but sometimes I just want to buy cute msd's and dress them in cute styles like Fairy Kei and pastel goth/creepy cute

 

Me, too. I even wash outfits that get handled a lot. That's my other confession. I handle my dolls - a lot.

 

I DO TOO!



My main confession is this: I feel really guilty whenever I buy anything for my dolls, even if I've specifically saved money just for doll stuff. I honestly don't know why, it makes no sense when I really exam the reasons why.

 

I started off buying bjds solely based on what sculpts I found really beautiful and just sort of using already existent fictional characters that the dolls sort of reminded me of as the inspiration/starting point for their styling/fashion sense... but not actually making them character dolls or making detailed characters of my own for them... and no backstory for anybody.... but slowly over time fragments of story/character have sort of randomly attached themselves to the dolls... and now they kind of have characters and I think the doll I've currently got on layaway is accidentally my first "OC", given that not only did I pick out her name but suddenly realized that I had a whole character in mind for her already. Which is just super weird for me, since the whole "character creation" aspect was never a draw to this hobby for me or anything I was at all interested in.

 

I don't like cute childish looking dolls and creepy dolls except vampires I only buy realistic mature looking dolls

 

Yep, same here

I never seem to be able to keep dolls for more than a couple of months. The only doll I've had for over a year is my DHS Elvenia. I always feel like selling them after a while and buy a new one..

 

Very similar. I feel selling them would be the responsible thing but then I think about it and want to cry so I don't. Plus my wonderful husband knows when I get into moods like that and then wont let me sell things till the mood passes.

 

I think confessions need to stay on tumblr. Sorry.

 

Yeah, well, the nastiness expressed in many tumblr confessions should stay there.

Onward -- I hear you folks about ironing clothing. I even bought a crafter's tiny iron to do the job. Junk. Was never hot enough.

My main confession is....I sometimes lose body parts. Maybe while restringing, or an old-style foot pops free from the screw-eye, or I didn't find a hand or wrist ball or elbow joint in the box of parts being unwrapped. They always turn up, but by the time I find them, I've already adlibbed with and started to flesh out a handicapped character -- and don't want to backtrack....

 

My confession is my favorite doll is always the one that arrived the latest. I seriously lack loyalty. Poor dolls.

 

My confession:

I tend to like the BJD "pet" dolls more than just the actual BJD dolls.
;w; I just ordered a couple from Doll Family, since they were on sale!

 

I'm fine with the long production times, but the moment a doll ships I lose all my patience. Mostly because I'm worried it will get damaged or lost. I become a frazzled mess.

 

I wash (hand wash) doll clothes...and iron them if needed.

I only develop a character after I find a sculpt I like. The sculpt "tells" me who it is...how they want to look, etc.

I don't like (for the sake of civility I won't name the specific company) one of the most popular makers of BJDs today. UGH...What is the big deal over and over and over. I'm gonna pull my hair out...there are SO many companies out there and I'm like "this is the most popular one"...

I also read the "trouble transaction threads".

And one more...

Sometimes I'm more fascinated by the owners box opening backgrounds than the actual doll. Or at meets seeing people's faces. OMG I sound creepy. I just like seeing other doll owners "lives/selves".

I've never, knowingly, meet another bjd owner. So, I guess that plays into the above.

 

Most of my dolls are unfinished...and instead of finishing them I buy a new doll. (Hence my 5 year project..joker)

I somewhat worry if I finish the doll that I'll no longer like it because there's nothing left to do...fussy me.

 

I've managed to chip every doll I own. D=

 

Personally I think we should keep confession stuff off DOA. It gets mean and hurtful really fast and and its not relevant to the discussions. I get that it can have a truth or dare kind of excitement and appeal but it's not appropriate in my opinion. If you want to talk about mods or over rated or under rated sculpts there are already established threads for those subjects. Let's save the secret sharing for a doll meet sleep over with your besties.

 

If people knew how much I have spent on dolls, they would try to have me institutionalized.

 

My Juri '12 twins still don't have face-ups...

While I do play the "character game" with many of my dolls, I don't do it with all of them. A few of my crew have nothing more than a name, and are unlikely ever to get elaborate characters or backgrounds. (I have them just because I liked the doll, not because I wanted them to be some sort of shell for an OC.)

I still love the "classic" CP/Delfs, and probably always will.... But I'm just not a fan of Fairyland's more recent sculpts. Something about all of those girls just looks off to me, though I can't point out exactly what.

I really want that Doll Chateau spider-girl. Really want. I just don't know if I have room for her leggy self in any of my display cabinets and that's stopped me from ordering her.

 

Now that I'd pay to see.

 

Towards the end of last year I promised not to buy anymore dolls, I brought 4 in about 5 months. But I have a one track mind and saw a doll on the marketplace that I just wanted, like right now, so I paid for him on my credit card.
I felt guilty for the week it took for him to arrive but now when I look at him I just feel gleeful.

I also have to admit to slightly prefering the new arrivals over the older dolls.

 

Bwahahaha!! Me too! Maybe that should be a thread, "root vegetables as limbs."

I'll confess. . . it took me 3 years to work up the courage to fix a chip in an LE face up. It wasn't even anything difficult but I really didn't want to ruin the rest of his face. . . . and given my usual luck it was a distinct possibility.

I admit I laugh whenever I read about the problem transaction that some friends and I were in held up as an example of how far some people will go to cheat others. . . almost like it was an urban legend or something. It wasn't funny at the time, of course, but now I kind of get a kick out of the fact people had read through that thread, remembered it, and posted about it elsewhere. I sometimes read the problem transaction forum looking to see if anyone has topped that one. Hoping, of course, that no one does. . .

 

I have an old MNF Lishe. One of the first things I did with her, around 2008, was put a pretty new outfit on her and take her outside in the springtime in my yard and take numerous photos. It was only after I brought her back inside and was putting her in her box, that I noticed that she'd decided to lose a pinky somewhere along during the session. From the first hands I ever blushed/manicure-painted.

I was horrified. I checked every photo spot and searched in the grass, bushes, and dirt for well over an hour for that tiny piece of resin.....

 

I can't get any of my dolls finished, because I keep buying new ones. I only have four dolls (well and some off topic ones) and not one of them is finished. I'm really close on one... Then after deciding to not buy anymore until I finished these, I decided it would be REALLY fun to make my daughter an Azula from Avatar the Last Airbender. So, instead of sewing and what not, I'm browsing for a good doll for that.

 

My confession: I have 75 floating heads.

 

Wow...that's impressive.

i also find those with lots of dolls (pushing 50 or more) quite impressive as well. I wonder how they can afford so many.

 

No kids and no big debts like student loans or a mortgage helps... But I think the biggest thing is not having any other seriously pricey hobbies to complete for your "fun money".

 

I got a dollhouse kit, just to give me a reason to buy Puki-Puki sized tinies.

My Peroth was bought in 2007, during the first pre-order, and yet he had to wait until the end of last year to get a body and a face-up *whoops*.

 

I get drunk and dolly shop

 

Shortly before my first doll arrived my roommate told me in an unrelated conversation that she hates dolls. I have no idea how to tell her that I have one in our apartment now. Sorry roomie...

 

I know it's dumb, but I feel a little left out sometimes for not really wanting anymore dolls. I don't understand tumblr or how to use it. My favorite part of this new hobby is meeting so many great people and making friends. The social aspect was a complete surprise! Also, I am not sure mine really count as 'confessions' but I wanted to share.

 

I've let two of my boys cross-dress for the first time this week. I don't disagree with it, it was just not something I wanted for their characters.
I'm still looking for yo-sd boy clothes that I like and are in my budget (I did make some trousers). Was tired of them being mostly naked.

My pukipuki doesn't mind but my Peaskwoods Leo has a look of utter disappointment in his eyes. XD He will get his Dandy suit one day.

 

Confession: I have a lot of fun reading other people's confessions.

Also, I wish I could take my dolls everywhere, they just make me so happy. But then I've carried one around in public before, but I felt really anxious and embarrassed.

 

I'm enjoying the confessions, too!