2024 Doll Goals/Resolutions

- Keep track of humidity and actually get some faces on these dolls.
- Find at least one pair of shoes for all the characters who wear shoes.
- Get clothes for the characters in loaner outfits. Make clothes for the characters who have specific outfits / are an unusual size. No more tucking some fabric around a doll and calling it good enough.
- Write down list of dolls I'm interested in. Put out WTBs as needed.
- Buy body for Erda.
- Dolly dye day. Two have faded weird, one is the wrong color, one is going to need some kind of complicated gradient once I get his body. (All dolls are roughly the same color it's just one big dye bath I have to make.)
- Paint the unfinished doll furniture and make cushions.
- Find the two dolls I need to get to round out the trios. Make plans on when to acquire. (I have two character trios that need their third member.)

 

– MOST IMPORTANTLY: continue my eternal quest to bring Dollzone Keai home . . . and hopefully succeed this year!
– Sell the two I've not bonded with so they can find homes where they're properly loved!
– Touch up Miyou's body blush.
– Send Niella off for a faceup and work on acquiring/making the clothes I want for his look so he can stop wearing that oversized cat ears hoodie and socks with no pants.
– Continue working on my sewing skills.
– Take WAY more photos!

 

-Sew more clothes & do more accessories for my dolls, never enough lol
-Re-do some face ups and add some details on bodies
-Build and/or buy some new doll furniture
-Save up for one tiny & one sd body
-Organize my doll clothes and craft supplies better, now everything is in different places

 

I don't often make New Years' Resolutions, since I've usually blown them sky high before the end of January. Maybe I'll do better with these, though!

Projects :
- Find out what the doll my boyfriend is getting me for Christmas is, then go from there. (All I know is he's a boy and his name is Damian)
- Send Rachel, Jack, Claudia, Vivi, Sami, Damian, and Zen to get faceups
- Do body blushing, tattooing, piercings, scars, etc. on the entire crew

Buy:
- Zen (RS Dai)
- Wardrobes for Damian and Zen
- Collin's new wig (or Cory's, it depends)
- All the clothes/shoes/accessories on my list for the rest of my crew

Make:
- So many clothes. So, SO many...
- Jewelry for Damian and Zen
- Wedding rings for a few in my RP group

What Not To Do:
- Buy ANY more dolls after Zen!!

 

- New faceup for Mel
- New body blushing
- More new dolls----Volks Kohya and Tohya
- Learn how to make resin eyes

 

Verona's eyelash started falling off in the last week so my goal for next year is to glue it back on!

Update (4/9/2024): Verona's eyelash is glued back on and he is BACK IN ACTION

 

Step Number 1: Get my personal office in order!
Not only do I need not-doll related things (bookshelves being top priority) but my "office" is a bedroom with a somewhat decent sized walk-in closet that I'd like to install shelves in for my dolls. Actually get them out of their boxes, set them up in little staged areas!

Other than that:
-I have about 4 dolls needing faceup. One is half done, I've just been massively procrastinating on her tattoos.
-One doll needs a body that I've been telling myself I'd buy for her for, oh, a year and a half and then I ended up getting tempted by X fullset and Y fullset and Z fullset... I've bought a lot of fullsets this last year and a half lol
-I'd like to repaint the first doll I ever painted. Just because.
-And after all that, if funds permit, one or two new ones for character shells! I have the dolls in mind, it's just a matter of having the funds available (isn't it always lol)

 

Elevate mine and my dolls fashion sense
get the MSDs the bodies they need - why does feel so challenging? (2 little monica, 1 Foveo)
make more money
Continue TRYING to improve my faceups
plan and EXECUTE a big valentines photo shoot for my doll couples.

 

ah ha ha ha ha ha. I'm not going to look at 2023's goals. I know I flopped. But... hope springs eternal, right?

Goal: Craftorama room. Craftorama room. I MUST put together Craftorama room. This will involve moving out of Craftorama's planned room (we sleep there now), maybe a little painting, consolidating and moving all my doll/toy/sewing/craft crap into the room, and setting up stations - sewing, airbrush, face-ups/crafting, and photography corner.
Plan: spend a little time every day doing at least one thing towards Craftorama room. Pitching a box, moving a thing, something.
Hopeful completion date: June (?) 2024

Goal: Wall of Doll - re-do office so that one full wall is lined with shelves that I can display most of my dolls on. This will involve pulling everything out of the office, moving all the furniture around, repainting, removing the horrible wall border, putting up a mural, putting up curtains or covering the windows in some sort of peel-screen, and installing shelves.
Plan: same as Craftorama room - do one thing every day. It can be big or small, but I want to do one thing towards completion.
Hopeful completion date: Also June 2024, as Spouse and I will likely be doing both at once.

Goal: no new doll/clothes/wigs/shoes pre-orders/purchases until Black Friday of 2024, with one exception - if Impldoll releases a new 68 cm female body. I'm still spiteful.
Plan: SPITE. It will carry me through.
Editing to add: This may get pushed back to Xmas 2024. The sales that have popped off lately have really fueled the spite. Hooooo boy, am I spiteful right now...

Adding one more goal:
Goal: cataloging my collection.
Plan: airtable listing of dolls with links to original listings, saving PDF printouts of website sales, and making little charms to put on each doll with numbers to match the listings in my document.

Heh. That's plenty for now. I'll revisit as I go.

 

2023's goal was Buy Less Dolls. I failed miserably at that.

2024
- Knowing I will always buy doll, or at least want to, my current goal is a faceup for all my faceless dolls.
-- oh and maybe heads for my floating bodies.
- A working iron + Improve at sewing.
- Finish a 3D sculpt of a head, and see if I can't pay friendos to print it.

 

Get a body for my floating heads
Faceups for them
Accessories for them…

Maybe a new one here or there

 

1) Learn to do my own face ups
2) Acquire certain Wigs, clothing, eyes and accessories that my existing crew needs to be "fleshed out".
3) Get into a place where my dolls don't have to live in plastic tubs 24/7
4)Add no more than 1 new member of the crew per year (Yeah, not likely, but I can try)

 

My goals will definitely be to properly look through all the doll stuff I own
I need to sell some random gift heads and resin I've gathered over the years, and do a thorough "spring cleaning" of the clothes and wigs that have not been used for a long time.
Not yet sure if I'll buy new dolls, since I have one doll coming already. But they all definitely need maintenance! Some cleaning, fresh coat of varnish and new strings will surely do them a lot of good.

Overall goal is to revive my interest in dolls, even if it'll be something small like taking pictures again and be excited about the ladies I have.

 

I don't think I ended up meeting a lot of my goals for 2023 (except for finding a wig for Leonie - knocked that one out of the park), but it was more because I didn't buy stuff vs. spending too much. So, that's okay in my books.

For 2024 I wanna take it slow.

1. Take more photos of Leonie! She's got a lot of cute stuff now, so I gotta start taking her on more hikes.

2. Figure out my Heeah's character. She was supposed to be the character from my sci-fi novella, but that hasn't been super successful as far as finding character-appropriate outfits has been. I tried to sell her and couldn't really bring myself to put in the effort, since she's so pretty, so I guess she's staying and that means she needs to stop sitting nekkid in her box. I think I'm going to stick with her being a tomboy and get her a little letterman jacket.

3. Dolly acquisitions... I haven't bought a doll for 3 years, maybe this year will be the year? I have a lot of things (wigs, eyes, shoes) already waiting for another iMda girl (unless I want this character as an MSD?) or a Withdoll Parker. Maybe I can get an Iple FID friend for Heeah. I'm also perpetually searching for a doll to fit my character Peppermint, but he's been... elusive.

 

This is just a list of things I need to do, not necessarily next year. Basically whenever I'm not too busy with work haha.

• Receive my incoming Ricia and outfit her (faceup, wig, I've already gotten a jump on clothing and accessories)
• Give Reuben (mnf Spring '17) a refresh - new faceup, wig, and clothing
• Make Quinn (mnf Celine) a couple of new outfits
• Ideally re-body Margot (f60 Soony '14), though that's more of a long-term goal
• Make Jeong Je (LS Wei Huo Hu) a modern ensemble. He's currently a historical South Korean character but I'd love to have a modern version of him
• Give Bastien (Crobidoll Yeonho) a refresh - new wig and clothing
• I plan to buy a boyfriend for Quinn from my sister, definitely planning on that early next year

I think that's about it! Quite a few of these are pretty simple as long as I have time and energy for creativity next year, so I'm hopeful.

 

Ahhh, another year... Some goals centred around LA Dolpa, assuming I'm able to attend
- Figure out who to bring with me, and potentially make them an outfit for whatever contest theme is announced.
- Save up for Dolpa one-offs may Mother SD be kind to me...
- Get new wigs for 3 dolls, and new eyes for one.
- Complete doll stories and lore for each individual doll. Most of them are about halfway there, at least.
- No new DDs, aside from a tan MDD 2.0 in summer.
- More SDs, particularly an SD17 Williams pre-2025 lol.
- New outfits for everyone. Increase the shoe hoard as well. NEVER enough doll shoes
- Redress dolls at least once every other month! I was pretty bad about that this year... But why change outfit when doll so cute...
- Build a large wooden shelf/display case with my father.
- Finish getting one of each omukae outfit, regardless of size
I think that's most of it. Unless Dolpa 51 has some absolute can't miss release, or anyone very special pops up secondhand, I plan for most purchases to be October or later.

 

BJD Resolutions for 2024?! Im all for this!

Here's mine:

-Commission a new faceup for my SDC Arashi
-Purchase my first tiny for my collection (I said I would never do this... now Im doing it.)
-Add at least one more of my grails to my collection.
-Find and attend at least one doll meetup in my area!
-Get better at taking pictures of my dolls.
-Stop being afraid to go out in public with them!

 

I think that in a nutshell, my goal for 2024 is "leaving the hobby." It's been the center of my life since 2010, and even though it took a long time I think it taught me many things I wanted to know, provided enrichment and achieved what I hoped (As well as eventually causing and being part of a lot of unhappiness) I feel things have moved someplace else.

That being said, I don't plan to stop having dolls or interacting when I feel like it... I just feel like I have begun to significantly move on. I don't really want to "meet" any new characters in my collection, rather I still want to have fewer. Their excess company is exhausting. Although I could see myself spending money to improve the ones remaining when the time is right, I am content enough with them how they are in the moment, my little friends.
Its been fun, and a lot of work. Hopefully I will get to see how how all the work I put into them can move into other creative projects again.

 

I'm not going to say sell a few or buy fewer because I always fail at those goals, but for me:

1. Buy one more Billy bookcase for display. I need to do this before the end of January since Ikea is discontinuing the 5% off for Ikea Family members.
2. Commission faceups for everyone who is staying.
3. Better wig organization
4. Spend more time with my dolls!

 

Sigh... OK, Impldoll. TWO 68 cm bodies.
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