Bonding with your dolls

Well, I don't sew or do faceups by myself. I bond with my dolls just by spending a lot of time with them! Holding them, having them hang out with me while I do stuff, and take pictures of them... That sort of thing.

 

How do you bond with your Doll?

Re stringing, cleaning, Dressing, taking pictures, taking on outings, cuddling. Yesterday I watched some sailor moon with my new girl and it was awesome!

How do you figure out your Doll's personality?

It just has to come to me in time. With my first doll I tried hard to push a story on her and it didn't work. Eventually she let me know who she was. My new girl is taking her time as well.

 

I carry her around and make clothing and other things for her and I cuddle her and show her off to people like she is one of my own children

 

I am sorry if a topic similar to this one already exists, I wasn't able to find anything on my own.

This thread should be all about bonding. I once saw someone asking how people knew that they had a bond with their doll and I felt like it was an interesting question. So I want to hear bonding-stories from other people in the hobby (:

When/How did you know that there was a bond between you and your doll(s)?

Are there dolls you couldn't bond with? Were you able to solve the problem? If yes, how?

Do you have a specific type of doll you can bond with easier? (e.g. a certain style/size/gender/...)

 

If you're interested, there are threads like these:
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?513442-Bonding-with-your-dolls
http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?606916-Falling-out-with-your-dolls-(Un-bonding!)

 

How do you bond with your doll?

Ahahaha my Luts Cane is my first doll that I got secondhand from someone who couldn't bond with him. I was kind of worried at first when I was choosing a name... I had him sitting on the other side of my bed and I stretched over a pillow and grabbed onto his hand and just stared trying to figure if Tobias was right. However I'd worked a double that day and ended up passing out without realizing it. Keep in mind, I'm a rough sleeper. I woke up six hours later, face first in a pillow, lights on, still dressed, but not having moved an inch to the point that I was still holding the little shit's hand.

So now I have Tobi and he's completely spoiled and very important for me. That also laid way for his calm, apathetic, but fatherly personality that he has.

 

The ways that I do spend time with my doll is when I have an exam and I need to practice speaking out loud, so yeah, she's there to listen. I also change her clothes and fix her wig. Typical stuff like that. At times, I get her and sit her near me when I'm watching a video or writing a paper, or doing anything school-related, really. c:
Of course, I know that she's not actually alive or anything, but I find it nice to at least have her around often.

To be honest, I don't really have a personality for her yet. At least I have an inkling already, but nothing concrete. I guess it's just going to show itself [hopefully] as more time pass by. x'D

 

My girl sits with me whenever i'm on the computer. And she plays video games and watches movies with me. And I will just pose her and make her stand by the couch while I'm doing things. I really like to have her around. As for her personality I don't really know much about it yet. I just know she's in love but that's about it so far.

 

For me it's first the pose ability, and then if I just feel something. Weather they remind me of someone or just give me a happy feeling. If I feel frustrated with posing, or just with the general feeling they don't fit me & my crew they have to go.

 

I got my first BJD very recently. She was in stock and I got her in the mail within a few days of purchasing her. Since I received her so quickly, I didn't have anything ready for her. Since getting her, I've spent a lot of time creatings her living quarters, sewing clothes, and attempting to make a wig for her (wig turned out to be a total fail, but it was fun! lol). I feel like if I waited months for my doll to arrive, I would have been better prepared to bond with her as soon as she arrived. Instead, I have had to put doll bonding time on hold to make everything around her the way I'd like it instead of actually playing with her and customizing my doll. Hope that makes sense. Lol Point is, the wait is worth it!

 

My first doll is the doll i love at the first time i saw him on website. he has pouty face but i can see him smile. I often talk to him.
With other dolls, I try to bond with them by removing moldlines, body blushed, try a lot of wigs and eyes until i feel they are perfect to me. Then i took their pictures and play with them a lot.
Along the time, i can feel the doll's character. If i like the character, i will keep them. But if not, i might sell them or try to change their looks again..

 

I immediately loved my first doll because she was my first. She has gone through a ton of different looks and personalities, and I've done her face-up five times now (in the three years I've had her), and I've improved a bit each time. I recently re-did her entire look and made her a wig, a dress and changed her face, and I'm actually happy with the way she looks in a different way than I was before. I got her originally so that I could change her character whenever I wanted, but I never quite found the right personality. Its been a long process of searching and trying things out but I think I've finally found something I really like for her. It suits her personality and sculpt now and just feels right. It feels like I've been getting to know her all this time, if that makes any sense. I usually don't have a definite idea of the dolls personality until I try out different looks and one sort of sticks.

 

When/How did you know that there was a bond between you and your doll(s)? ~ With my old MSD that I didn't grow fond of at all, I figured it made sense to put her in her box when I didn't want to do anything with her. However, with my SD, I keep trying to put him away in his box, away from the prying eyes and grabby fingers of my floormates, but I just can't stand to have him out of sight for so long. Even though he's blank, and wigless, I still enjoy having him out and within view.


Are there dolls you couldn't bond with? Were you able to solve the problem? If yes, how? ~ I wasn't able to bond with my MSD at all. Mostly because she wasn't a doll I actually 'wanted'. She sparked a new character though, and I do have a connection with that character. However, I still didn't bond with the doll itself.


Do you have a specific type of doll you can bond with easier? (e.g. a certain style/size/gender/...) ~ I definitely think, in general, I bond with SD sized dolls easier. Granted, I've only had two dolls, one MSD and one SD. I can't say if gender factors into it or not really yet. I think size is the main factor though.

 

I had the hardest time deciding on a personality for my first doll. Mostly she just sat on my desk and looked pretty. But as I became more comfortable with sewing and experimenting in clothes making for her, I ended up discovering her personality through an outfit I made for her - a WWII nurse's uniform. Random, right? But the moment I put it on her, I knew what her personality would be from that point on. She's definitely not my prettiest doll but I love her to bits and I wouldn't trade her for the world Face-ups help with bonding, too, though!

 

I bond with my dolls in the usual ways: I make them things. I paint their faces, I sew them clothes and make them jewelry and props, I spend all of my free time on the internet searching out furniture and props that are perfectly in scale. I take pictures of them all the time. I take them to restaurants, work, and doll meets and conventions. I spend a lot of time just, you know, hanging out with them, mooning over their beautiful faces. I never really have much in the way of characters thought up for them before hand, I am not a writer or RPGer. Their characters are revealed slowly to me over time, some change a great deal. Only my grail, Iplehouse Carina, blossomed in my mind as a full blown character the moment I took her out of the box, she simply announced," I am a pirate queen!"

 

I haven't had my doll for too long, but I bonded with him by sewing a nightie for him and adding lace and buttons since I thought it would look nice on him.

He was purchased in order to do partake in themed cosplay with me, so I think that's a way we will be able to bond. And I know that I will probably need to make more things for him since I might not find everything needed for his cosplay.

I also brush/fix the wig he is currently wearing and have a little bed and companion for him. I don't really think our bonding will go beyond me making him stuff, buying him stuff, coordinating cosplay outfits, and keeping him neat.

 

For me the dolls are characters I've already made up, for the most part, or a doll inspires one which has begun to happen. For me I bond with them best as soon as they look more like the character I had in mind, for example my Dikadoll boy became the character the second he had all his things and that just made him so much more mine. My new boy is unfortunately going to take a while to get there. If the doll seems to give off the characters personality (Im not too bad at picking the sculpts that enable that) it really makes the difference ^^

 

Call me the black sheep of the dollfie world. I came up with names for them and bonded solely on what they were, but i never created full personalities, backstories, or histories for my boys. But I love them for being what they are and how they look. I only once didnt bond with a boy, because his head was kinda big for his body and ears were flat against his head. Im trying though, I have a scarred boy who would make an awesome story.

 

My dolls need to be put together, dressed and all to get bonding points............. I always feel guilty about simply having super expensive resin pieces laying around unused when they are in pieces before faceups or restringing... I really need to be able to look at them and see how pretty they are, and able to hold them to cuddle and such!

 

well the way i bond with my girl is that when i'm making my homework or working on a project she's always there with me, or in the same room, what ever im doing she's there. i make her clothes myself, i see that as a type of bonding too. and mostly i find myself talking to her as if she were to be my secret diary when im making her furniture or making her plushies she HAS to be there my type of bonding with a doll may be weird and different than usual but that's how i do it ^^ Hope my answer is helpful to you.