How Do You Feel About Your Collection Right Now?

Wow, my answer is still about the same two years later, whoops. Just change "story" to "stories" and "tempted to attempt a diorama" to "attempting a diorama of sorts on the top of a couple of bookshelves" and add more size diversity.

 

My collection is super bland and I cant wait to get my new dolls in to spice it up!
I have a Doll Leaves Lan, and a Doll Leaves Jeremy on layaway

 

It's too big. It's way too big. I'm having trouble parting with some dolls, others are easy to sell. If I had my own space and owned less stuff overall, I doubt it would be as much bother. But no matter how much I par down on one thing, I still have a ton of something else, and I can't get rid of it without playing twenty questions and having it all gone through. It's what comes of living with an organized horder, unfortunately.

On the bright side, I think I've only been this happy with my dolls once or twice, early-on in the hobby. I have most of my coveted sculpts, including my holy grail. I have a deeply personal character shelled in a doll made in the year I joined the hobby. I'm excited to work on projects for the first time in a while. Most of the dolls that came in this year were on my wishlist or planned; less impulse buying, more selling. And the ones that were impulse helped friends and strangers who needed money.

That's a very good turnover in my book.

 

I'm still just a *little* unsatisfied with mine. I'm missing something that I can't quite put my finger on. But I think I'm finding it with the help of a friend I was able to make through the hobby!

 

Nowhere near complete!

My partner and I have a small house, so we're rapidly running out of room to put our new, incoming dolls. And, I still have 6 floating heads and he has at least two. I want to eventually find bodies for my heads. I'm hoping that the glass case I hope to buy next year will help solve the problem.

Loving SD sized and larger dolls in a small house makes things difficult, to say the least.

Ryu

 

A little odd lately. I've had a hard couple months of the thought sitting on my mind and decided to put half of my lot in their boxes for a bit to see how I feel. Up until about two years ago, I didn't have the space for all of mine to be out, but I know which ones got priority to be out and I didn't miss several of the others much. Having them out has been eating at me.

So far I'm feeling a lot better with just my favorite out and on my desk and my other four that I love on their display shelf, though one of the ones I boxed is definitely tugging on me and may come back out. The others I'll have to give some serious consideration to my long term plans for them before I decide what to do, but I'm pretty sure a few of them will be moving on. It's not too sad for me, but as I've always been generally pretty picky and the no-take-backs feel of it, it does give me a lot of pause, but it's something I need to do in order to move on with another project I'm starting.

That said, interacting with my unabashed favorite continues to give me so much happiness it's ridiculous.

 

I am struggling. Right now I have one in my possession but have several preorders coming that have been stuck in customs for a hot minute. I also just bought an artist fullset that set me back quite a bit and may have to sell a few of the dolls I have been waiting on once they arrive. I am unsure how I feel about it. I hope I love the doll I just bought, it is one I have never had, and it is in a size that is bigger than I have been wanting to focus on, but she was too gorgeous to pass up.
I don't know how I will feel about any of the dolls until they get here, so I am up in the air right now. I have loved dolls from photos and gotten them and not liked them as much and vice versa, so until they all arrive I won't know how I feel, and when I think about it the not knowing kind of gets to me.
I really wish they would all just arrive already!
With all that said, I love the doll I actually have, and if I don't like any of the ones coming I would be content with just her, so that is something I guess

 

I have lots of doll and doll heads, I don’t want my sd dolls anymore and only have 1 finished doll that I’m happy with. I have 2 dust of dolls (rose heln and Cham Byol) and they’re beautiful but I don’t know what to do with them. I want to sell of a lot of my dolls and kinda fix up the ones I love.

 

I recently sold a bunch of floating heads I couldn’t stand the sight of. It felt good to finally clear out the floating heads as I had felt burdened with them. This year I added a few dolls to my collection that I had really wanted. I think for me I am trying to focus more on the dolls I actually want rather than buying a lot of floating heads.

I think when I started out in the hobby I wanted to just buy as many dolls as possible but they weren’t dolls I really wanted. When I started to find the dolls I actually wanted I regretted those purchases (like the floating heads).

 

My collection changed a lot over the last months.
At the end of last year, I started to collect taller dolls but soon realized, that everything over sd10 is too big for me.
Also, I started to collect the old volks fcs-heads. It is sometimes fun hunting them but it makes me sad too, since I have no luck with my grails.
Since I sold so many dolls, most of my collection doesn`t feel finished.
And they are all in boxes now, because I want to move soon.
tldr: my collection feels confusing

 

I'm finally healthy enough to not only get back into the hobby, but start working on those of my Crew that have been so patiently waiting for my health to improve. YAY!

I have faceups that need to be done by artists, clothes to get for some that have only a few outfits to wear, eyes to get for a couple of dolls, jewelry, shoes, and other things that they need, and so on.

I'm really excited for the things that I will be getting or doing for my Crew this year!

Ryu

 

I always wanted to have at least 7 dolls, not too many where I feel overwhelmed. I feel content with my collection as it is now, but am also still looking to add at least two more boys in the near future. Right now I'm quite anxious to find a Volks Cecile Scarface, though I'm trying to relax a bit since I only just returned to active status less than 3 months ago. But after a long hiatus, I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do!

 

I have an issue with nesting too much before I get a new doll. That is, I get a bunch of clothes, eyes, wigs, shoes, whatever for the doll I want before I ever place the order. I think it is because I see the doll as always being available and maybe the clothing not so much? Maybe? Or maybe because I had the opposite problem with my Pullip dolls in the past and was never really excited by them because there wasn't much to change up their look.
Regardless, at this point, I think I have probably about 10 solid outfits for each of my soon-to-be 5 Minifees (exception being shoes) and feel so guilty, like I spent all of this money for outfits that can't even all be worn at once. I'm glad I have the options for my dolls, but I some how feel bad for it.

 

Yay for health! Glad you're doing better

 

7 sounds like a good number! I always wondered how other collectors determine their ideal amount I'm so bad at it lol.

 

I only have two dolls at the moment as I'm relatively new to the hobby. Wouldn't call that much of a 'collection' lol. But I'm happy. I see myself only having between 5 and 8 dolls total.

 

At this point I have all my grails, on some of them I worked very long, others, who are newer need more attention to be completely perfect.
I think that there are some among them I have to get rid of, some I don't connect with, but can't sell for some reasons.
I definitely want to sort out, have my inner circle refined and focus on those that I really love the most.

 

I just started in the hobby back in July of 2020 and I only own a Dust of Dolls Kore, a Kinoko Juice Hoekuchi, and 3 Soom Petit Gems. I'm honestly really happy with my small collection. I only foresee myself adding one more girl to my collection (another Dust of Dolls appi girl ).
Right now I'm mostly focusing on the ones I have. I painted one of my Petit Gems, will need to paint another one and do some body blushing on the last one, get a faceup for my Kinoko Juice and figure out a wig for her, and then get my Kore to look the way I want with faceup wig and clothes c: and I'm really excited.

 

I currently have 3, and that seems good for now. I was out of the hobby for a long time but I think I want to spend more time now getting/making stuff for the dolls I have rather than new ones. But that may change since I’ve been eyeing some Iplehouse sculpts I like too lol.

 

While I currently have more dolls than I thought I would, my collection still feels very incomplete to me. Mostly because I'm still yearning for my only other grail doll (Delf Shiwoo), I've been trying to buy one for so long now but I just keep missing them! I thought that maybe another old Delf sculpt could fill the void but it's just not happening, so I've pretty much put all of my major doll plans on hold until I finally find one.