How long have you gone without doing anything doll-related?

There have been times when I've taken a 1-3 month break, mainly while I was in college. Now that I'm working full time I feel that it's easier to take them out and do stuff with them, mainly because I felt guilty about not studying if I was playing with my dolls. I'm planning to go back to grad school so I know that I might put them away for a bit, but they'll always be there when I want to do something with them

 

I took a year off, and it felt great to get back in.

 

I started getting dolls about 6 years ago. 2 years ago I went back to school so I've had to re-evaluate how I spend my money. So I haven't bought anything new since then.

 

I currently only have Musou and I take him everywhere with me xD sometimes i even take him downstairs if i'm going to get food... even though i'll be gone for 30 minutes tops I'll still do it. I think I left him alone for like a day about a week and a bit after i got him and that's the most. and i only left him alone because his eyelash came off again x.x it's still off, but i just cover that eye with his hair until I can get my friend to help me fix him because i failed

 

Until now...The longest was about 23 days. That was when I went to have my trip at Thailand and I couldn't take my doll with because of the weight and fear of UV light and high temperature.

 

A year and seven months. I did nothing doll related, and I honestly don't really know why.

 

I can go for periods of time, usually months, because my focus shifts to other dolls! I collect a little bit of just about everything, so usually some other faction will grab my attention for a bit.

However, I can't imagine doing anything non doll-related at all. It's been my main hobby for the majority of my life. I would truly feel lost if I didn't have dolls.

 

2 weeks. I felt totally aimless and at a loss.

 

a few months at a time, I feel really bad about it sometimes but I don't have a room and currently am taking care of 3+ foster cats at any given time so my doll has to be in the closet nearly all the time for safety reasons

 

Hmm, perhaps a few months. Dolls of all kinds are my thing, I don't really have many other hobbies other than photography, so I spend most of my time with them. I count spending "time with them" as browsing sites such as DOA and shopping for them, lol.

 

I actually fell out of the hobby for two years because of financial issues. And in that time, Poor Anton was kept trapped, nekkid in his box.

 

Anything doll related at all... not long xD; because even when I'm not "doing" things I'll still look at pictures and converse online and watch videos and window shop...

 

If we're counting browsing sculpts, browsing for wigs/clothes, coming on DOA or reblogging BJD posts on tumblr, then not long. The longest I've gone without playing with my dolls at all is maybe a week, but I'm always on tumblr and enjoy looking around etsy.

 

Approximately three years. I don't even really know why (Burn out? Boredom? Couldn't find anything new that took my fancy?) but I just lost all interest in them. I kept them out though, and never really contemplated selling them (which, as it happens, was incredibly fortunate as most of them aren't even available any more!) as I still found them... aesthetically pleasing, but that was it. Seeing them getting more and more dusty annoyed me, but I just couldn't be bothered doing anything about it.

Then, two years ago, I found my way back (again, I can't even explain why) and... basically just picked up where I left off. My tastes hadn't really changed, and I revamped my 'old' dolls by changing eyes, wigs and looks - and in the process found a new appreciation for them.

... My bank account, however, no doubt wishes that I'd never returned!

 

I really can't answer that question xD

I go to meets every month at least. I am constantly looking at forums and window shopping. I probably buy something clothing wise once or twice a month.

On occasion I do pick up or change an outfit or something.

I really never took a break this has been the way it has been for closing in on 8 years xD

 

I tend to take my dolls with me a lot (because there's no reason not to - one is sitting on my desk here at work as U type this) and work on clothesfor them even when the dolls aren't with me, but I had a period of about 8 years when most of my dolls and bears (I've been into dolls since way before BJD's hit the market) were in storage because I was living in a succession of small rented rooms with barely space for me and my clothes, and then in a flat that was a building site as I worked on it gradually as and when I could afford building materials, so I did next to no doll related stuff for all that time.

Teddy

 

I took about a 8-9 month break after my personal life imploded. @_@ Now that it's back to normal (actually, it was back to normal about 6 months ago), I'm back into dollies. I had other hobbies to occupy my time, but just seeing the dolls sitting on the shelves that are missing faceups or clothing made me feel horribly guilty.

 

I've actually gone 4 years without even looking or thinking about my, at the time, doll. I was going into High School and was super busy with school work and friends that I had little time to even think about my boy in his box. When I took him out years later I felt so disconnected from him because he no longer suited my tastes. He has since gone to a very loving home and I am back in the swing of things now with 8 girls to love. Looking back on it, I really do feel bad that I basically forgot I had him. I'm just glad everything worked out nicely!

 

I often go a month or more without taking my dolls out of their cabinet. That is because my ... primary ... hobby, if you like, is drawing my comic (the dolls are based on the characters of the comic). In normal circumstances I post a comic page every week, but that means it has to be written and drawn first - the comic takes priority over everything else.

It's not very often that I take a doll out of the cabinet just for a moment. I like to take my time and concentrate on my hobbies. So my doll activity tends to go in bouts. I'll pick a doll and work on it an entire week, fashioning a complete outfit - because I know that if I stop halfway, the momentum will be gone and it may take a while (months!) until I go back and finish it - and 'unfinished' means no photos and no sharing :p.

However - I am never really without my dolls, even when I am not actively doing anything with them. Their cabinet is in the entrance hall of my flat, so I see them all the time. I am constantly on the lookout for doll things too, like scarves I can use as veils, or rings I can use as bracelets, or fabrics or yarns or ribbons. I also make note of ideas for clothing.

When I haven't worked on my dolls for a while, I start to miss handling them. I'm not sure how I have managed all that time before I discovered BJDs!

 

Almost two years. My dolls were still chilling around the house and I enjoyed having them around, but this was the time when I lost interest in making new clothes for them, buying new BJDs, etc. My projects came to a stand-still. I was really...REALLY burnt out. So much was happening back then and of course it had to happen all at once, one irritating thing after another. Some of it was personal, some actually doll-related. It got to the point where I sort of said, I'm done, and I stopped coming back here for a while. I've never had any problems with anyone on DoA, but even so I felt like I needed that break from parts of the hobby that didn't directly involve the dolls I had. There were other non-dolly projects (like my writing) that needed my attention back then. You'd think that my wallet would have recovered during my hiatus.......nooope. I was buying arcade machines instead of dolls.

Though I gotta say, it's weird coming back and finding out about these companies I've never heard before, and seeing all these "new" sculpts too. It's all new and exciting...again.