Do you have BJD Addiction?

Actually my mother is a self proclaimed "collector" of many things including shoes & purses she has so many it's not even funny half of the purses and shoes she buys are not even branded and she has worn or uses a handful at best of both shoes and purses. She uses the explanation|(s) of well I need new shoe/purse as such shoe/purse is old/falling apart etc ( they are like brand new or lightly used is most cases) her closet is full like if you open it it will fall on you. She also collects salt and pepper shakes (ok some are cute and I have a few that I had to leave at her place when i moved to the UK) but she also collects figurines, plates,bowls, silverware, jugs,cookie jars, glasses (cups mugs the like), drink jugs the list goes on.

Same woman is complaining to me that my gemstone collection, "dumb" book collection (self help, herbal medicine, craft, woodworking, kids, new age books the like), Sewing pattern collection, yarn collection (least I actually use my yarn) and now my quickly growing BJD collection cost lots of money and I should be wiser with money etc etc and sell some of it off.

I/we (husband is acutally into the stuff I collect and adds to it!) can pay all the bills we still have money left over even after buying (new or used) books,sewing patterns,gemstone,BJDs etc. and if we had a credit card or even load I know we could and can meet or exceed the minuim which is good.

My mother (along with my father he just goes along with it) on the other hand can barely pay normal bills on any given month, as well as a car payment, and has 4-6 credit cards she borrows money off of to pay one of the other ones.

So what I'm saying is there is nothing wrong with collecting. Some collectors like say my mother do make excuses. some manage money better then others. The only thing I think is shameful is one collector trying to tell another to be more money wise when they are worse at money then the person they told that to lol. Plus side tho most of the stuff can be sold if need be unless your like my mother and then thats a nothing is going to be sold lol.

 

You write novels? thats pretty cool. I wish I could but my grammar and spelling well quite frankly suck and I'm more then sure I suck at sentance and paragraphs and anything else I would need to understand to write a book. But it's something I would love to do at some point.

I think it's cool you have a dedicated savings for the dolls, think I'll have to do that too fantastic idea! and totaly get wanted limiteds some are stunning! I have my eye on 2 doll zone dolls atm not limited but have a 12% off deal going on and they have a tan skin thing going on to and it looks really nice. But the 2 dolls are not limited but then again I don't see the tan option through my dealer other then this tan skin event thingy.

 

Well I funny enough I found a online course on writing & book writing so jumped on it. I will defo need to set up a savings specially for dolls as I already have one for emergencies and that one gets a large interest paid in when I don't touch it. Down side it's with another bank and I'm lucky if I can remember my log in details half the time :S

Might I ask what your novels,novellas and short stories are generally about?

 

OMG those sound AWSOME!

 

Sound like we both diving in to this hobby . If your not sure if they are on topic ask the mods heck if not for them I would have thought my Flora (off topic BJD) was ok. I'll admit I have been tempted to buy a few off ebay and I'm more then sure they are recasts but man they have a doll chateau snail one and it's super cute! and there is another one I have no clue who made it but it's a spyhix cat one I love it to but I'm trying to stay away from recasters. I already have around 2-4 waiting for me to buy themI'm debating wither I buy the doll zone dolls in tan with the skin even and the 12% off OR buy the Myou dolls I like in coffee skin as I really want to get these lil egpytian charaters brought to life lol.

 

I have to agree atm I have made a small knited blanket for my smallest BJD which is a luts delf louis think he is like 16cm tall.
Also working on a larger knit blanket for my larger dolls. have some tartan type fabric as well as checkered,floral and polka dot that I'm going to make into skirts and a kilt "man skirt" also have lace in various colours to go on the female clothes.

I love the look of doll zone doll specially the one's called Jade & Rosen so cute but for them plus tan resin I can get the 2 myou dolls doudou boy and girl versions for a bit less and to be fair they are super cute to albet smaller then the doll zone dolls

 

Thats the thing tho ain't it some addictions are negative and thus when addiction is brought up it's negative and shameful. Like being addicted to swimming which when I was little it was hard for my family to get me out of any body of water that was deemed safe to swim in. That is until my aunt tried to drowned me multipul times so that stopped my addiction to swimming the fear of someone drowning me was stronger then my addication to swim.

But again depending on the addiction it should not be thought of as bad.. Like BJDs addiction. As long as it's not causing you any hard hardship I say party on lol

 

I would love to buy the heads but knowing me I want a body it can go on which lets face it heads and neck sizes vary and if you think you found the perfect body only to have hopes dashed to a extant because the neck size it to small or to large ( I find with the heads I like vs the bodies I like the neck is small and the head is big). You still have a smaller wish list then me lol I think I'm in at least the 70's+ now with my doll wish list. What style of clothing do you like? I know the style I like for the most part I'll have to make like dark ages type or sci-fyi, fanasty types. Vaild points to with doll collecting and I'm sure my view will change once I get my dolls which I was just informed by my dealer that my luts tiny delf louis with face up as well as his wig is on the way I did order green eyes that were in stock but turns out they were not. Also getting Ringdoll grown Rinku, along with some eyes I know should fit him again 1 colour for him turned out to not be instock so seller asked if it was ok to send one that was similar in colour which I was cool with as well as a little wig for my doll chateau ada doll along with another wig and a wig cap that I'm going to try using to do my own wig.

But ya hopefully the BJD manina will tone down once I get my dolls lol

 

I like the idea of the other type of clothing that sounds awsome did not think of steampunk lol even tho I have gear buttons running around lol! I love celtic/pagan clothing trying to remember what mori is tho.... Balancing acts are hard. I agree with selling them on if you fall out of love with them and having no "vices" like drinking,smoking etc is great more money for dolls ;P lol. I kinda hope I don't have to sell my dolls tho mostly because I'm a stubborn mule lol

 

Well i finally got my Ringdoll Rinku along with my Luts tiny delf Louis. And my 2 year old dd managed to get up on the self that had my DC (Doll Chateau) Ada doll she was pulling one of her back legs of course the hooks are super tiny and must have straighten and well she is now down a leg im crushed and now have to restring her leg and either repair the hook,make or buy a new one.

Ringdolls Rinku's ( Virgil from here on out) head is smaller then i first thought even with the DH helping make up a visual on roughly the size of his head. The sculpt of his head is nice i like it and the body its muscular and looks more man then boy which is nice. I also got another set of hands with him well fists to be correct which is nice. But his knees keep bending even when im trying to keep him straight legged which if trying to stand him that way he keeps snapping forward and his knees bend at the same time which sucks finding this out at the same time you have a once over inspection and you get clocked in the face! He also makes a god awful squeaky grinding noise when trying to pose i found spots of hard but smooth rubber stuff in the arm and leg sockets but i dont feel they contribute to anything so unsure why its there (felting?) As the joints still mostly move freely. Overall nice but think strings are to tight so i either try and restring him or i heard bending him constantly for a week or 2 or even adding a weight (small of course) to hang from his neck hook for a bit will stretch him out a bit and make him more loose. So might go with whatever has me not doing a restring.

Luts tiny delf Louis ( Lulu from here on out) is super cute had a face up already and looks super cute with a red lil wig i bought for her. Sadly my dealer had not 1 but 2 items that were really not instock including some green eyes i wanted for Lulu. Cant remember if she refunded for those eyes or not but i have gone online and ordered some from another company. Lulu it not overly tight its mostly just her legs but at this point its not to much of a issue compared to trying to keep the wig on her head which i have now gone on to order a small silicone wig cap for her.

With the above said i am no debating on wither i buy 2 myou dolls (doudou boy and girl version) with coffee skin ( already bought eyes and wigs that would fit them as well as other dolls) or if I should buy a Luts baby delf Gabriel in normal brown with no body blush but unsure if i want a face up done on her already or if i want to do it.. keep thinking about that as well as Iron_Dog ZA stories which btw thanks again Iron_Dog i i really love the stories so far so now im addicted to Bjds and zombie stories