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Brand new start in the hobby? Advice needed...

Dec 22, 2013

    1. Could you ever do something like that?
      I don't think I could, honestly. Dolls I've bonded with ... they're here to stay, unless I un-bond somehow, completely fall out of love with them.

      Did you ever have such feelings for a doll, that it's not the true love, and how do you handle it? Do you prefer to face it or rather pretend like you're perfectly happy with them, like i used to?
      This is only my second year in the hobby and I'm not sure I've experienced anything of that sort yet. Some things take time, my first doll was my grail so it was instant love and I was a bit worried when my second didn't "click" the same way, but she only took a little longer. (Also I was over the "ZOMGS it's a BJD" phase by the time she arrived :lol:) So while I don't think I'd pretend to have bonded with them when I clearly haven't, I know that some things take time (and maybe a second shot at a faceup, some re-styling ...). I think true love or no, what it boils down to for me is bonding. If that doesn't happen with a doll, whatever I do, then and only then maybe they need another home. On top of that, I couldn't sell a doll I've customized. My only real modding project (aside from hybriding) was done on a practise head I picked up purely because it was cheap. It wasn't love ... but still I could never ever let her go, not after making her into something of my own. So she sits on the shelf, apart from the dolls that belong in the same story (universe, even), not quite a part of it but still there and beautiful and I'm happy to have her, and she's just the same as the others because she, too, brings a smile to my face whenever I look at her.

      And if i sell them now could it be that i'll probably miss them to death some time later?

      I know I would. I'd be very very hesitant to sell a doll ... but again, I still consider myself a beginner in the hobby, and I've given my purchases a lot of thought (maybe too much) from the start, limited funds vs big plans and all that jazz. I did get one doll on a whim and I feel he came home too early, I don't have enough time to complete him and it bothers me, but I could never sell him because ... reasons :sweat I don't even know, I just couldn't. So even if I were to change directions with my dolls, focus on a different story, anything - I'd still keep the dolls I own now.