Do you have a blog or website JUST for dolls?

It's not a blog so much as an easy-to-browse compilation of my photostories somewhere the pictures won't vanish on me.

Harts

It may be a simple format, but it gives me a lot of joy to look back on what I've done.

When it comes to documenting projects and talking about works-in-progress, I prefer to do that here on Den of Angels. I tried the official 'blog' thing for a few years and it felt like a chore.

I also have an Instagram.

 

I have a site with a custom domain where I do blog, but I'm rather bad at updating it regularly. When I do update my site, it's usually to host an image so I can post it here.

Halcyon Straits

As I mentioned in the Do you have a profile / photo site (re: old school, non-social media) for your bjd's? thread, I leverage HUGO and publish through a github <-> Cloudflare integration (all free). Since I created the site last year I managed to add links to other doll sites, though it's rather bare at the moment. I am planning to add some of the active ones in this thread to my page. I also added a "store" as at alternative way to list my dolls, but that was mostly for proof of concept.

The thing that was most cool to implement was the timeline in which I collected my dolls. I hope to make my doll profile pages more filled out and have their stories added. Maybe a network graph of how they relate?

 

Yes, I keep my photo comic on my Instagram. I also have a few random pictures of my dolls there as well.
When I get the first season of Blossom Boys all put up on Instagram, I'm going to put the completed season one on Blogger.
Right now I am just putting it up during the weekdays.
https://www.instagram.com/rabbidbunnies_bjd

 

I've never had one, but it's something I might consider for next year. Maybe use it for various types of dolls, future and current projects, ideas, and such. It would give me the opportunity to put everything in one spot.

 

I have a website just for my dolls, BJD Stories - Imagination At Any Scale. It was also what served as my image host for posting on forums such as DoA.

I've recently setup another site, DollFun - Fun With Dolls, where I'm now posting my newer content as it's just easier to load photos onto especially from my phone. It's not just for my dolls though as anyone can post there. Really it's my attempt to help ease the image hosting problem in the doll hobby as I provide free image hosting for all the posts.

 

I have made a small Neocities website... it's a bit too minimalist but I still need to figure out what to do with it so it's more than a glorified image dump

 

My husband and I have been debating about doing this for a while. Partly because it seems our dolly collection has a few fans whenever we go out in public with them. It's weird having a few dolls that seem to have fans. It's like, uh...how you know our doll? Hahahaha. And I know we tend to be recognizable when we do go out in public with our dolls. It's like, "Oh! You're that couple!" Bwahahaha. Um... like...how do you know us?

I have social media accounts that were meant for only IRL family and friends but have slowly been getting some non-IRL "friends," pseudo-celebrity or social media famous people, and people requesting to be friends for a while now. I'm thinking it's time for just a dolly account of our combined dolls as I don't want to feel like a mean person and trim that friends list, but it makes sense to have a dolls only account meant for the dolls and for basically the public, but return my personal social media accounts back to the basics of IRL friends and family only. I'm too nice for my own good and feel bad about rejecting people, but I really value my privacy too much so I need to think about things a little more seriously. It's different now than it was "in the old days". Our dollies having a single social media account of all doll related things that's fine as they are just dolls and sharing images of them and only them is fine. But the real me needs to remain private with no images of us our there and not stalkable. Hahaha. Like, for realsies.

Also, I get it. We do have a few dolls that are considered Grail dolls for some people. And I remember how nice it was "back in the day" to be able to see current pictures of those said Grail dolls, especially if they are still in pretty good condition which is getting harder to find as the years go by. It's like having a pet that becomes social media famous and you feel sort of obligated to share pictures of them but still want to be anonymous. Do it for the dolls and the doll fans, but leave me alone, if that makes sense.

I had actually tried to do it once before but I really wasn't good about it in the beginning of making sure to keep the real me anonymous (like absolutely no pictures of us at all, making sure no one tags us, no one takes casual pictures of us without our consent, no identifying anything, etc) and people figured out who the owners of our dolls were which makes it uncomfortable. Especially people that want to buy our dolls from us but we are not interested in selling. If I were to do it all over again, I need to really think about it hard to make sure we do it safely and it's remains fun for us instead of a burden.

 

I do! I love the blog format.
I've recently started a blog after coming back from a long hiatus. Link is in my profile.

 

I do! I keep a gallery of my Noble Dolls girls (I love my other dolls, but I don't photograph them at all/as much as those three) and a blog on it.

 

I do now! I finally got in the mood to make a neocities website: C'EST UNE WEBSITE Not exclusively bjd stuff, still a work in progress, etc. etc.

 

I, too, have gotten on the neocities train. Took me a long time to get to it but it's nice to have my doll into all in one place

 

I just started a blog. This guide helped a LOT: https://www.theblogstarter.com/. How to get it online, how to promote it, and most importantly, how to make money blogging - this guide covers it. Recommend!

 

I do have a doll page within my website…it is just info page for faceup commission. I have not thought about developing it more than that…now that it can be a thing, I do want to develop one!!