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How do you decide on a doll´s birthday?

May 23, 2006

    1. I am having my girl home a few days later and I am still thinking what to decide for her birthday.Maybe the arrival day?Or the day she left the company?Or give her one by me?
       
    2. My dolls' birthdays are when I rationalize that the company makes/paints my doll. Some time between when I pay and when the company packs it up. But that's just me. ^^
       
    3. I litterally just pulled a day out of thin air. I didnt expect myself to remember, but I can :XD: I just thought.. hm.. he seems like October... and picked a day from there.

      Not the most thoughtful of processes... But I guess I match a month to their personality.
       
    4. ~~when he arrived, 7th of May.
      off the top of my head....
      he had eyes and wig and faceup then too, if not a character and personal outfits, i think it wouldn't have influenced me if he hadn't.
       
    5. I've used the arrival days so far as I remember them. Although, I'm tempted to use Sune's creation day instead, since he has an adorable certificate, and March seems like a better month than February for him.
       
    6. So I've seen this thread a few times now and....it suddenly occurred to me my dolls don't really have birthdays....they get things for my birthday and for Christmas.....and if its the day I recieved them then its pretty much my birthday anyway....
       
    7. The arrival dates are my doll's birthdays, but my T. Lahoo head's birthday won't be assigned until I get him a body, as he doesn't seem complete yet, and I don't even have a name for him, even though I have his character and look pretty much all planned out.

      I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it, but for me it would seem weird for a head to have a birthday. xD Perhaps it's his lack of a name as well...
       
    8. I use Lisi's arrival date, but I kind of forget Alexei's...but when I remember it, I'll go by his too. I'm not sure how my fantastic floating head will have it measured, probably his arrival date as a head, depending on when it is
       
    9. My dolls (will) be based of of characters I have created and love very much so those characters birthdays will be their birthdays. But I will also remember the day that they became complete, much like an anneversarry. :)
       
    10. So far I've used their arrival dates for the most part - one of my boys had to wait nearly a year for me to find his "real" wig, but to me their arrival dates were special enough to be used.

      However, if I was to buy an incomplete doll, such as just a head or whatever, I'd probably decide to use the day that they're finally a full doll (head + body) regardless of whether or not they have the "right" wig/eyes/etc.
       
    11. I completely agree with this. My doll wont be born until he's officially completed.
       
    12. I use the date of main part arrived my door.
      both Este and Eonwe are arrived as a complete doll, no confusing for them
      Irmo/Namo twin.... cause me trouble 'cause I still have no body for Namo yet but his head arrival day is their birthday :)
      the most confusing one might be my F29. still, only head, and I don't even know which gender he/she will be.... probably will set the birthday to the date I decide the gender ^^|||
       
    13. For my first doll his birthday is his arrival day, but I'm not sure what I'll do with other dolls.
       
    14. I also agree that the doll's birthday is the arrival date. My Silas will be one on the 26th :D
       
    15. I just chose my favorite month and a number/day that "fits."
       
    16. Since most of the reason I get a doll is to personify a character, and since most of my characters already have some random birthday, it goes along with that. If they don't already have an established birthday, I'll probably decide their arrival on my doorstep is their birthday
       
    17. I don't have my first one yet but when she arrives her birthday will be the day I get her home (so the day she arrives will I use).
       
    18. Usually the doll's birthday is the day when i receve it :love
       
    19. You have to look at all my BJD different
      Veronica - Arrival (Birthday/ Arrival: April 9, share the same b-day with the one and only Veronica Taylor voice-over of Ash Ketchum)
      Zacharee - Arrival (Birthday/ Arrival: May 18, I was at a photoshoot at RisingSun.Net when he arrival)
      Caty-Ann - Arrival (Birthday/ arrival: July 13, Share the same b-day with my favorite pet [who now died] Fluffy the cat)
      Dusk - Special Day (Arrival: Oct 27, Birthday: Oct 31, I want them to have halloween as he b-day)
      Dawn - Special Day (Arrival: Oct 27, Birthday: Oct 31, I want them to have halloween as her b-day)
      Marcus - Special Day (Arrival: May 30, Birthday: May 26, She was support to arrival to my house that day but got shipped out that day no ramdon share the date with my friend Human Marcus Kessell, who she got named after.)
      Hannah - Make Up (Her birthday is unknown at this point because she not my BJD. But I think of her B-day as Novermber 27. Because that's her owner's birthday)
      Tryst - Arrival So Far (She the only one without a b-day I mean she arrival Oct 22 so I guess you could call that her birthday. She not my doll. I just watch her a lot)
       
    20. When mine comes, his b-day will be the day he arrives.