Do you have BJD traditions?

That sounds so fun! So far my only traditions -if they can even be called that- are box opening photos of a newly arrived doll and picking out temporary eyes and outfits. For photos I like to get at least one shot of the doll sitting up in their box and it seems like half my crew has ended up wearing the first yarn wig I ever made as their temporary wig.

 

I take pictures of all of my dolls on my cat tree when they first come home and are ready for a photoshoot. The lighting is always fantastic and my cats get curious. Everyone wins

 

Whenever a doll comes home, I always make note of the day they came home and every year I celebrate their birthdays. I haven't done anything super extravagant or anything but I may play with them more on that day or buy them gifts too. If I can, I'll even buy cupcakes to celebrate and so they can have a birthday cake too XD

 

This is a neat idea, one I've never really thought of before. I suppose the only 'tradition' I have is that immediately after I get a doll I tend to take out all the flesh-toned putty that is holding their eyes and replace it with silicone earplugs. It is pretty much instinct at this point. Even if I know I want different eyes in them later I will still change out the putty to earplugs. I used to make sure everyone dressed up for the holidays but since covid hit, it has been a bit harder. I ordered a larger shipment of dolls right before covid hit but due to the pandemic, I've struggled to find clothing for most of them. So this year and last year no one dressed up for the holidays.

 

i crochet each doll their own blanket in the main colors I'm going to put them in. I've fallen really far behind, but eventually each doll will have their own blanket.

 

Not really, although when I get a new doll, they usually spend their first night in my bedroom before moving to the doll room. I'm not sure if this counts as tradition, but I also try to have eyes, wig and at least one outfit ready when they arrive.

 

I have… an embarrassing amount of photo traditions for my dolls. Most include some holiday. The biggest one is that every Thanksgiving I photograph one of my boys trying to hunt a chocolate turkey (he always fails to catch it). Sometime in October my Moon twins get a photograph with tiny pumpkins—one gets orange and the other gets white because their frothy backstory is that they were born on October 31 and one was a ghost for a while until his brother brought him back to life. I try to do something for Christmas and New Years, and a couple of my oldest dolls’ anniversaries. Valentines day usually gets a couple photoshoot, and I try for at least one snow photoshoot a year and one autumn leaves photoshoot.

I take a lot of goofy themed photos.

 

I do the exact same for Halloween and Christmas cards! I haven't in the past few years but I plan to start again this year.

 

I don't have any tradition about buying, but I have some about selling my dolls

Firstly, I have a jpeg image of stickmen symbolizing dolls, each of them having a enough place on the side to write the name of the sculpt. I wish I had also written the dates of parting, but anyway I've had filled up about 45+ stickmen captions thus far and without that folder I wouldn't remember I've had a half of these dolls xD

The next tradition is noting the sale or purchase of every doll (barbs incl) in my dolly register. Yes, I'm very much into tables, registers and all of that xD

 

I think I’d like to have a doll tradition—I don’t yet. One I plan to do is get a group pic of everyone not being modded once a year (in November. That’s when I did it last year). And I have a tradition of getting myself something nice boxing week, because Christmas is immensely stressful for me, and I work retail, so you can imagine Boxing Day. Most of the time this “something nice” is a doll.

 

When I get a new member of the crew, the first thing I do after unpacking them is give them a good cleaning. Nothing else happens until they've had that first scrub... They're just not properly "mine" until I know they're clean, even if I'm their first and only owner.

It's a little compulsive, I admit. But... yeah. Neat-freak.

 

I like to try to have at least one possible outfit ready for an arrival though this doesn't always work out lol I should try to make a tradition for my dolls it sounds fun.

 

I haven't had dolls long enough to have annual traditions. But I boop the snoot of my dollies as a goodnight, does that count?

 

Looks like I'm in the norm about not having any real traditions, aside from the unboxing day and making sure a new doll has some form of temporary items. Even if my girl is primarily wearing my boy's long coat for now, she's still fully dressed. Well, she's wearing the dress I got for my next girl right now, but she'll go back to wearing the coat once I can afford the new girl.