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Did you play with dolls as a child?

Mar 3, 2012

    1. I had dolls as a little girl and I did play with them, however I played with them mostly with GI joe's with my older brother. I don't think that my owning of dolls had anything to do with my enjoyment of BJDs now. I do as a matter of fact still have quite a few well worn barbies and the like in storage right now, getting into Bjds did encourage me to go and take a look at them again. Boy howdy were they ever ugly in comparison.
       
    2. Dolls have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I had buckets of barbies I thoroughly destroyed when I was young, and then moved on to Bratz when I was a little older. I also had American Girls, Polly Pockets, Madame Alexander dolls, especially the mini McDonald toy ones, and I even went through a paper doll phase with a doll family I made out of napkins and construction paper. My last doll obsession before BJDs was with Pullip dolls, which introduced me to the doll photography community.
       
    3. I totally played with dolls as a child, barbies, american girl doll, live dolls, etc with my best friend until we were 12... which was only 3 years ago! :XD: So when I found out about BJDs I loved the story, customization and art side of them!
       
    4. Barbies alllllllll day. I kind of regret selling my entire collection, mostly because I could have reused the clothes. C'est la vie.

      I always wanted an American Girl doll, but never got one. Girl Scout camp every summer was more fun.
       
    5. I had little to no interest in dolls, give me a dinosaur any day and I would have been happy to play in the mud lol. Sure I had a few barbies and cabbage patch kids but they were rarely played with compared to anything else. Preferred all the boys toys since they're more fun.
       
    6. I had Barbies and all kinds of fashion dolls as a kid . I had tons of clothes and accessories and spent a lot of my childhood dressing them up, styling their hair and making up stories about them.
       
    7. I played with dolls in my younger days but not as much. I was more outside than inside kinda tomboy girl. Now since I'm older I'm not outside as much and I don't like getting dirty lol.
       
    8. I was obsessed with soft toys and especially horses,I had so many horse related things.But dolls?I don't think I was very interested.
       
    9. I played with barbies and american girl dolls
       
    10. I had dolls but afaik didn't use them at all