How did you discover the BJD hobby?

I collect Tonner dolls and am a member of the Prego message board and with everyone posting different dolls, I fell in love with the Notdolllab Naripon Pansy dolls and got one. I then started really looking at everyone's dolls and started watching Youtube videos about them. Now I have a huge list of dolls I want to get. LOL

 

hm, i don't quite remember how, but i stumbled upon pullip dolls a few years back and i fell in love! back then though i was a poor student so i didn't buy one. now i'm just a poor waitress! no, but i recently fell back in love with them earlier this year and got serious in the hobby!

 

I saw Paulette Goodreau's Kerli and fell in love her. My first bjd and from there went to more and more of them. My latest love is puki puki size dolls.

 

I saw as teenager a few times some pictures of BJDs, all on the web I guess. But always as little random pictures somewhere, so I had no chance to find it out what they was XD
Some years later, when I almost had forgotten, I found randomly a BJD shop and was shocked how expensive, but also beautiful they are. I hadent finished my apprenticeship, so I thrust it aside once again... till I got a job and money... and found a volks shop in Japan on my asia trip... since then I cant runaway anymore XD

 

I actually found this hobby on accident while looking for an artist mannequin (one of those cheap wooden ones) only I couldn't remember the term at the time and just haplessly searched for "Ball-Jointed Doll" and fell in love with all the pictures I saw. I've been hooked ever since

 

A couple of years ago, I believe I was on google search and I was looking at fairy statues and dolls since I'm obsessed with them. While I was scrolling down I stumbled upon my Fairy Goddess (Dollzone Tulip) and I just fell in love with her. I clicked on the picture and to my surprise there were more dolls! And they were oh, so beautiful! I just hand to find out at least what they were called. I managed to find out somehow and had been obsessed ever since. It wasn't until this year that I was able to save up enough to get Tulip and my Pukifee Pong Pong. They're so addictive though!! I got another on the way and I'm currently saving for my first boy doll

 

I have had a thing for dolls for a while, but my friend showed me her Island Doll Amy, and my heart melted~!!
But i had seen them before that.. my facebook showed me an ad for Mint On Card. It knows me so well, LOL.

 

My first post on DoA... Well my sisters friend (mysanityisresting) got her first BJD and showed me the website now i'm in love with them! a little while before that i was looking at pullips and Dals.

 

I was a fan of surrealist art and was utterly fascinated with the work of Hans Bellmer. A few years later I found Ryoichi Yoshida's book 'Anatomic Doll". I wanted one really badly but those dolls were made of wood and were really expensive if you could find someone to sell one. (This is prior to the resin dolls being created and marketed). Then later I found Yaso magazine which featured a bunch of artists making bjd's. Though I had checked the internet I hampered myself by searching for "anatomic dolls" like the name of the Yoshida book. When I finally figured out to search "ball jointed doll" I discovered the resin scene and was amazed at the scope of the community that had risen up. I tell my friends that as a photographer there are many artistic possibilities but the truth is that once my doll arrived I knew it was true love.....

 

I sew doll clothing for vinyl dolls so I have been exposed to BJD dolls for a few years now, but did not get my first until 2011, and it was a tiny. Then came Lester my 50 cm. I now have 5 resin BJD's but I am looking for a femail partner for lester at the moment

 

I've always loved dolls, and ball jointed ones in particular. Before I discovered abjd, I was very interested in wooden bjds and automatons. The step from there to these beautiful dolls was not very big.

 

I think I had been browsing through deviantart pictures and happened upon a cosplay of DoD's Camine; I then spent hours researching about BJDs and looking up photos. This was a few years ago and I was just in my mid-teens so I didn't really think about actually buying one and that was that. Then recently I happened to come across tumblr photos of BJDs and started to seriously contemplate saving for one (hopefully in the coming year).

 

I must have seen BJD photos on DeviantART, and then started purposely looking for photos of ball-jointed dolls. I found them interesting and beautiful, but I never thought of getting one until much later.

 

I found a photo on some page of an event doll from luts and I was like OMG what is that??!!
And It took me some years until I actually bought one and now I have owned 18..its crazy..

 

I started seeing photos on Deviant Art, plus I really Like a lot of stuff from the Asian culture and heard of them (the Volks company mostly) but really hadn't given it much thought until I started seeing beautiful pictures of all these different dolls. Then I dreamed of owning at Just one...now it's growing lol.

 

Much like everything in my life, how I got into the hobby is a complicated and winding tale. I'll summarize, though.

When I was very little, I liked paper dolls. This translated into KiSS dolls around 10-11, when I got my first computer. From KiSS dolls, I stumbled into Visual Kei bands (I downloaded a doll of Mana from Malice Mizer). I spent a lot of my early teen years collecting pictures of my favorite artists and, as such, spent a good deal of time bouncing from archive to archive. On one site, I found a person who was into both Visual Kei bands and BJDs. I didn't know what BJDs were, so I clicked and fell in love.

That's where my interest in the dolls came from. Unfortunately, I was a 14 or 15 year old kid with no money. I, after months and months and months of longing, put the dolls out of my head and moved on. Earlier this year, I stumbled back into another website that featured BJDs, purely by accident, and I was hooked again. My husband bought me Liam and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

I'm not quite sure how I got into the hobby! I remember being 13 and looking through eBay, probably at clothes, and found a listing for a Doll Family H Lingfeng and just fell in love with them! I had seen them at local conventions around my city, too. I was always big on art so I just thought they were gorgeous. After that, a while passed by and now I find myself looking at BJDs everywhere and I am currently saving up for my first!

 

i purchased a couple second hand BJD's on ebay before finding DOA.. then the marketplace became my personal shopping mall..

 

A long time ago I watched Kerli's first music video that had the BJD in it and became really interested in having a customized doll. I did a lot of searching but couldn't find anything until somehow I came across Luts. I started saving, but wasn't completely serious about it because of the price and having really no interest in dolls before. Although once I had my first girl in my hands I had to go out and get another, they're so great!

 

honestly, it just seemed to blend in with the other stuff that I was interested in. I just remember seeing people with them and the cons I've been to having panels to do with BJD but it never really sparked my interest. I'd look at the pics and think theyre pretty but the funds made it impossible for me to . I did see someone selling their Dreanei BJD and it looked amazing. That was the first doll that did take my breath away. I sorta wished that I had bought it but I think that she did find a seller before I had the courage to ask if I can do a layaway