Did you play with dolls as a child?

Yes I sure did!! I played with barbies and baby dolls. I loved barbies soooooooooo much as a child!!! I still love all dolls. I never out grew them.

 

oh yes! so many barbie and sindy dolls, I was a little spoiled as a kid- Parents got me and my big sister most doll related things we wanted- horses, cars, houses. I also had a large set of Cassy Dolls, they came in plastic box that you built them a house with, complete with furniture and all sorts. Think I still have all my Cassy dolls and parts some where. I only started getting into bjds this year but I dont think I ever grew out of dolls.

 

Absolutely. I was maybe 2 when I "adopted" my grandma's bitty baby collection. Then I began to collect American Girls. I've always loved dolls, never stopped loving them. As a child my friends and I would play school or house with them, we'd take them on adventures around the neighborhood. In 2011, I started making stopmotions and photoshoots of them. One thing led to another and suddenly I jumped from one expensive doll brand to a new expensive doll brand x)

 

My childhood doll was a my child and my grandma gave it to me my mom collected porcelain dolls so I think that's where my love of dolls started. I bought a collection of my child's years back because I loved them so much. I am really just a child at heart. Is that a good or bad thing? Lol!

 

A friend of the family travelled a lot and brought me dolls in costumes from various countries, and I loved them. I didn't really play with them though, they were kept in a display cabinet. Sadly they were lost in difficult moving circumstances, but I remember my favourite doll was from Mexico. She was beautiful!

But I was never interested in Sindy or Barbie or any dolls like that, I didn't play with them at all. I was more the outdoors type.

 

I have loved dolls my entire life. I loved playing with my barbies and acting out stories. As I got older I started collecting porcelain dolls and collector edition barbies. My mom also loved and collected dolls so it has always felt natural to me. I still have my childhood dolls/barbies and gave them to my daughter. My daughter also collects american girl dolls. My mom started collecting bjds first and it was just a natural progression for me to start collecting them also.

 

Absolutely, and all kinds of dolls. Barbie and Betty Spaghetty were probably my favorites. Even back then it was exciting to pick out the dolls I wanted and to wait to get them. My greatest treasure was probably my dollhouse, though. No wonder I'm now planning to make a house for my BJDs.

 

As a Child I always plays with dolls and I loved to collect them and now is the same ^^

 

I played with all sorts of dolls when I was a kid. I grew out of the baby dolls pretty young, but then it was barbies and similar sized dolls. And some smaller ones, I think they were called "Pamela love". They were small, cheap and had lots of mobility so they had som advantages.
I had like an army of dolls.
I liked making clothes and stuff for them too.
When I got older I got interested in antique dolls and started making dolls.

So, I played with dolls as a child - and I think I never stoped.

 

I don't think I ever stopped playing with dolls, LOL I've always been into role-playing, whether through drawing a plethora of paper dolls with character descriptions written on the backs or the oldschool AOL '90s freeform chatroom role-plays, and dolls just personified the characters better and there was so much more available in terms of ways to make the playing seem more real such as doll houses, countless accessories, etc. Even at a young age, playing with dolls was a way to reenact the stories I often conjured and hasn't changed so much other than my dolly counterparts have gotten both tinier and younger.

 

Yep :roll I've always been sort of a girly guy and my mom let me be myself as a kid, so, Barbies everywhere. When I was eight I got into American Girl dolls--my first "big purchase" was my Nellie, I saved up $72 for her all by myself. I've always enjoyed telling stories and dolls have let me do that in a physical way that doesn't involve other people, like acting. I can be all by myself but surrounded by people who can tell my stories. It's a lot of fun!

 

As a child I did play with dolls, like barbie and what not. I never really fell out of my love for dolls as I still collect different kinds of dolls. But my childhood love for dolls isn't really what got me into BJDs, I can't really explain it, but when I saw my first BJD I didn't think of it as I do with plastic dolls, I saw BJDs more as a collectors item, something to be delicate with...years later when I got one for myself I felt like they could take on more personality then any doll I had ever owned before.

 

Not only as a child, even as a teenager I was playing and clothing my barbies...

 

I never wanted to play mommy so there by I never wanted baby dolls. I had barbies but never really played with them.

 

I had barbies, and played with them sometimes. However, my sister and my favorite "dolls" to play with were our beanie babies (stuffed animal toys). We made them houses, cars, forts, put them through school, camps, dances, and rustic adventures. I have an affinity for fantasy and animal themed BJDs, probably because of my childhood.

 

I had Cabbage Patch dolls as a girl that I really loved playing with, and I had beds, and a feeding chair and all kinds of clothes and accessories to go with them. Kinda the same with my Barbies, I really mostly enjoyed changing their clothes and making up outfits for them. I think that has carried over into my BJD hobby, since mostly I like to just change their clothes and pose them somewhere.

 

Did you play with dolls as a child?
Yup, I had Barbies and plushies. I preferred plushies. I had a Cabbage Patch doll that I never liked, and same with a really realistic baby doll. Haha... wow, I knew I never liked kids and babies IRL or as dolls but I didn't know it went that far back.

Why or why not?
My childhood is a blur. Looking back, I don't remember if I really, truly enjoyed them or I just played with them because that's what I always got for presents. I did prefer them over the baby type dolls though. I was always a loner and maybe the dolls/plushies kept me company.

If yes, did your childhood love of dolls get you into BJDs or was it something else?
Not exactly sure how to answer this one. I think I would have been interested in BJDs even if I never had Barbies.

 

Did you play with dolls as a child?
Oh yes. All the freaking time. I had barbies, plushies, and American Girls galore, and I also had some homemade rag dolls who lived in a house my Dad built for me. My granny made them for me, and we used to sew clothes for them all the time!


Why or why not?
I grew up loving to pretend. I also loved creating: drawing, writing stories, sewing, etc. My dolls were a great medium for that creativity. I even have photo albums of their weddings and other adventures!


If yes, did your childhood love of dolls get you into BJDs or was it something else?
That's part of what it was. It was also my love of sewing and crafting and a desire to do something, anything, with all the extra fabric I've accumulated. Add that to a very helpful acquaintance who happily taught me the basics of BJDs and invited me to DoA, and here I am!

 

So. Did you play with dolls as a child?
Not really.
Why or why not?
We were dirt poor. No electricity, no running water, sometimes no food. When we had a chance to ask for things through service agencies, I asked for things like sewing kits or yarn and fabric. I can entertain myself for hours sewing or knitting and at the end of it, new clothes! When we got toys, they were games that all us kids could play together, not just one toy for one kid.
If yes, did your childhood love of dolls get you into BJDs or was it something else?
I have always loved dolls. It was making dolls myself that was where I found BJDs and they're just so pretty. ^.^
If no, how did your lack of childhood dolliness effect your BJD hobby (did it make you feel self-conscious/etc)?
One reason I make ceramic dolls is because it is not very expensive to slip-cast a bunch of heads if you have a mold, then sew up a muslin body, paint a face and do up the dolls and give them away to other little girls who still live in the kind of poverty I grew up in. I get the fun of making up the dolls and dressing them and then double fun to see a little girl with a toy that was made just for her. (and doll takes no space up in my small house!) Mebbe my love of dolls as an adult is because I loved them so much when I was little but didn't really have one to myself until I was older. Now that I am an adult with my own income, I can buy as many as I want. It probably won't be many, though, because BJDs are so expensive and it's hard to be happy if I buy a doll for myself when the same monies could pay for a whole winter of fuel for an Elder or a family with kids, or meals or clothes. Little splurges for me. Those are ok. I don't feel self conscious about playing with dolls. It makes me think mebbe it's why my sisters hate dolls so much, because they didn't have either so .. I dunno. Not used to them? Jealous that I feel no shame at being an adult playing with dolls? My brothers are teasing about it but not mean, they see it makes me happy so they help or encourage. I try not to talk about dolls in front of my parents, so they don't feel guilty for us being so poor. I know they still do. We all grew up ok. Just now I can play with dolls when I want. ^.^ And eat dessert first if I want.

 

I loved playing with barbies when I was a kid! It was so much fun to drag them in a car and then- throw them off the cliff! (True story. I think I had a thing in "torturing" them in that manner.) I also loved to throw them off with a bag attached to their back.
Now, enjoy a mental image of treating a BJD in the same manner!

To be little more thoughtful on the dolls: I also loved to play with barbies/other dolls in my grandma's house, but the difference was that all I wanted to do with those old, worn out barbies was to make them all better: fix them and dress them in a nice outfit, since nobody else played with them in such manner.