How did you discover the BJD hobby?

I have always loved dolls! My collection started with Living Dead Dolls when I was in fifth grade. I have a roomfull now! I started getting Little Apple Dolls, too. I even made a few of my own dolls. I actually was on a forum and saw a picture of a Korean Ball Jointed Doll, and I fell in love. I had to have one! I looked on Volks and was devastated when I saw the prices, I knew in my heart I could never afford one. Luckily, people put up dolls for adoption on eBay! Although it wasn't a Volks, I adopted a DollZone doll. I found that I really love DollZone dolls! I named her Mio. Since then, I bought two Pullips and a Hujoo. I recently adopted another doll, a Boding Boding Alice by Serendipity, still waiting for her to get here. Really exited, and although I am new to the hobby, I love it as if I have been here forever!

 

looking around on deviant art.
I found a girl who had a modded girl with largely gauged ears.
I looked around more and discovered what the dolls are called.

 

Probably when I was at least 9..I was looking up Rozen Maiden on Google Images and I saw The Volks Rozen Maiden dolls..
I found the Volks website and fell in love with every one of them >>
I hated looking at them because I loved them so much but I knew I would never be able to afford one.
Years later I came across the LUTS Site and I fell in love again

Now my LUTS girl is on the wayy

 

I fell in love with them when I first saw the delicate photos my friend show me, then I can't stop adding new members and making new clothes... I guess they are one of the best things in my life!

 

Here is a kind of similar (and very huge) thread
Who Introduced You to BJD-- first one you saw?

Here's my answer.

actually since I didn't link where I discovered them before

Here's how it went:
I was interested in going to Yaoi-con in 2006, Asia Watanabe was one of the guests and I checked out her website.
Hers were the first ones I ever saw http://www.watanabeasia.com/diary/

There was also artwork from Heise used for the website banner that year that I liked. So I looked up Heise and found pictures of dolls on her Deviant art page too
http://heise.deviantart.com/
Heise had links for Dream of Doll and LUTS on a photo and some people were calling them Super Dollfies in the comments.
So by Googling 'Super Dollfie' I found Volks too and then DoA a little later

 

I blame cosplay for getting me into the hobby. I was looking for wigs and kept finding doll wigs on ebay. There were so many available that I got curious as to what they were actually for, so I prayed to the almighty google and found volks, then obitsu, then Luts then all kinds of other companies. I've been saving up, but my itch got so bad I bought a Hujoo. I love the quirky guy, but I want a resin beauty.

 

It was so long ago... 6 years ago? When I was 13, my friend gave me a porcelain doll (not a bjd). It came with a birth certificate and when I looked it up I got to an online store with bjds. I didn't think much about it then, though. I knew what bjds were but I didn't have any interest in them. (stupid 13 year-old self!)

I started considering the hobby 4 years ago when I joined deviantart and saw all these cool photos of bjds. x) Though it's taken me until now to actually start, though... haha;;

 

I stumbled upon BJDs on Ravelry about a year ago. I was vaguely aware of them before, but seeing the itty bitty sweaters someone had knit started a Google search for actual measurements and more info. The sweaters were for larger dolls, and I was intrigued, not tempted, but still liked looking at pics and admiring the handiwork that went into costumes and props. Then I stumbled onto tinies a few months ago and fell head over heels. I could never resist that much cute.

 

My most excellent pal Glass_Mountain is responsible in my case! We met via eBay in our Sasha collecting days and became penpals. Then one day, circa late 2004 she sent me pics of her latest enthusiasm, these "resin" dolls from Japan! She sent me links to Volks' web-site, and I saw their latest offerings, all featuring price tags with large numbers with many zeroes after them. D-: They looked cute but how did one shop in Japanese?! Well, I found my first ones on eBay, and the rest is history, lol

 

About the time I was eleven or twelve I had only two interests,art and anime.I already had an antique German bjd which I adored, so I was accustomed to dolls. One day surfing online for anime (quite the accomplishment in the days of dialup) I stumbled across a photo of a Volks Megu. I really thought she was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, those joints and that sweet face were surely a perfect work of art. It was several years before I had any more information about the dolls or where to get them, and several more still until I would get one, but I had that picture of Megu taped to my wall for three years

 

I first found out about bjd's from collecting pullips. Alot of pullip owners also collected bjd's, so I was able to see a wide range of dolls from their posted pics. After spotting a bjd that I fell in love with, I was hooked !

 

I had a friend who would spoil herself rotten with impulse buying, and then loose interest in the things she got... Very irresponsible, as she often did this with living things too, like snakes and lizards from the pet store. I got a lot of stuff off of her that she no longer wanted, or had an interest in. She had bought herself, and her girlfriend each a BJD. She got a boy, and her girlfriend got a girl. well, after they split up, (but were still friends/kind of seeing each other) She did what she does best, and left her doll with the girlfriend, completely ignoring it. Her girlfriend was upset that she wasn't taking proper care of him (both of them are/were animistic wiccans, so love and attention for dolls was important to her) so she gave him to me... and don't worry folks, the next time I saw my friend, she told me she was happy I had him because she knew I would take care of him... This is how I got my Andrew (dollmore Dean), and my first step into BJD's. My other friend, and roomate got me onto these boards and a little later I was able to get my second doll, kicking the hobby part into high gear.

 

I saw them on dA a long time ago - it was a photo of a Yo-sd looking out a window. It was so cute and beautiful, but all I knew was that they were dolls. But many years later, an artist at my school drew a picture of her two dolls, and so I found out about them from her. She gave me links and so much information, along with the dreaded idea of a "wishlist." xD

Oh wishlists, how you curse me with your orderly lists of temptations.

 

When I became obsessed with dolls, I searched through the internet and I would spend hours looking at their photographs. I was mostly into fashion dolls but I came across ABJD's as well. I didn't like them at all in the beginning. The only reason I bought a 16" BJD was because of her poseability. Then I finally started to like resin dolls and I got the idea behind them. I realised that one doll can become many others and can have hundreds of faces. Now I know that there's nothing better than the possibility to customise a doll so that it becomes the extension of one's own self.

 

Same with me, I was totally obseesed after I found one on DA and My mom said she would buy me one if I would shut up about them... I have my doll but I'm still talking about them non-stop. :P

 

I used to collect 16" fashion dolls and was a regular on one of the related forums. From time to time, pictures of ABJDs were posted (I remember the regulars referred to them as "aliens", due to their large eyes and bigger heads). At first, I ignored the pictures, but with time, I started to get intrigued and ordered Custom House Choa, my first BJD, in 2004. As soon as I received her, I knew that my days of collecting fashion dolls are over.

 

I actually saw my first doll in a book that my mother owned. She constantly got magazines from various doll websites because she collected baby dolls. She likes the vinyl and silicone baby dolls from Ashton Drake, and a couple of Artists that sculpt their own dolls and have them produced in limited amounts in silicone or vinyl.
I on the other hand, didn't like dolls. I was the type of kid who was irritated that "Ken" didn't have any boy parts and "Barbie" didn't have anything attached to her over-sized breasts. Plus, I didn't think that it was appropriate for an 17 year old to carry around a baby doll that looked like a fake child.
But I did appreciate looking at the dolls and hoping that I'd find one that caught my attention. So one day while my Mother was cleaning out her book drawer I was reading through her magazines and saw an article on the BJDs, which I instantly needed one. After looking them up online, I was really put off with their prices, I would have never had one if it weren't for my Mom understanding my want for one and giving me my first BJD.