Letting other people hold your doll?

Maria brought Aria with her to her/her moms birthday party [they're just close enough, date wise that its easier that way] and her nieces [I guess? It's her Aunts Husbands Brothers kids...] asked NICELY if they could hold her. Ranging in I think 9-13 in age. Maria told them they couldn't carry her around as she was fragile, but they could sit there with her on their laps. So they did and were so fascinated with her, stroking her hair nicely and just being very careful with her.

It's one thing if the person asks nicely, OR I know they know how to handle dolls, such as the lady at work who collects porcelain dolls.

 

Another thing I want to add: My mom always has rights to hold my dolls, pose them, she loves them as much as I do, and she usually 'doll sits' for me if I need to get something for her and I have one of my dolls.

 

I'm usually ok with it. Most people don't want to hold her after they learn how much she costs. I take my girl with me to conventions, and I cosplay, so she does get passed of to friends when I get pictures taken, so I pretty much have to be ok with it XD

 

After my brother almost broke it, I'm afraid to let him be held by other people xD

 

I'll let my boyfriend and close friends hold my doll, because they treat them very well. I only let people I trust hold them. They're my children and I'm not letting a random stranger hold my baby

 

I usually let people hold my dolls pretty easily, though I prefer to ask them to wash their hands, just in case.

 

I have let a couple of friends hold one of my dolls, but to be honest they seemed to find it so awkward I probably wouldn't do it again! I think they were a bit freaked out, which was reasonable. since they'd never seen a BJD before (let alone a 65cm one!), and all they knew was that she was very expensive and very fragile. In future, I think I might just tell my non-doll friends that my dolls are display pieces and not really meant to be handled too much, and only let them handle them if they seem very interested and enthusiastic. It's not that I don't trust people, I just don't want them to feel like they have to ask to hold my dolls just to appear interested in them

 

I think I'd be okay with someone holding my doll if they asked. Everyone has to have a first time. Now, if it was obvious they were going to be careless or damage my doll; then, the answer would be no.

 

I let all of my friends hold my doll as long as they're careful. It's important to me to let the see him if they want to. How else would they get an up close look at his pretty eyes? cx

 

I will let people I know and people who are truly interested in them hold them. Otherwise, I am a bit leery.

 

Honestly I've never had anyone else hold any of my dolls before. Sometimes if one of them is in the way of something my husband will pick it up and move it gently, or occasionally he will play with an arm or something trying to be funny, but I trust him to be careful. Other people just don't acknowledge my dolls.

 

I've let my neighbor's children hold my doll, because when I was babysitting them, they had asked if I had any dolls I played with (cute little girls wanted me to play barbie with them, but didn't want to share dolls), so I told them about my doll, and went to go get her, and when I got back, I told them to wash their hands well before letting them hold her when we say back down by their little scene set up. They both were very gently with her, and thought she was nifty. I think with people who aren't familiar with BJD's I would make sure that they had clean hands, and knew to be very careful, to basically treat her like she was a small child. ID also probably insist they didn't handle her while standing up, or over a very rough surface.

 

I have a majorly modified doll and those who see him want to hold him. It's okay, but I do want them that he has thorns and pokey stuff all over him.
I don't mind someone holding my dolls if they know their value to me, (not just monetarily), but definitely not small children. All my dolls are too big for that.

 

I'll admit, SteamWitch, if I was at a meet and your thorny boy was there, I'd probably want to hold him, too.

At the convention I attended last weekend, there were quite a few newer doll owners at the panel/meetup, discussing different scales of dolls, so while the presenter was getting things set up I passed over to them different sizes for them to handle, so they hopefully could get a better handle on what size they actually might want! Similarly, at a couple of booths in the Dealers/Artists area, when a couple of different vendors expressed an interest in them, I let them handle the ones I had along with me at the time. That said, everyone who handled them was well aware of the delicacy and cost of them, and did have clean hands at the time they were handling them. (They're also fully dressed, similarly protecting them from any dirt.) In all those cases, I felt like helping people get a litlte more interested in the hobby, or in the different sizes, was worth letting someone carefully hold them while I was right there.

But I think I might also be a pretty laid-back owner overall.

 

I don't have anything against letting other people hold my doll, although, when they end up handling them in a gruff manner, well, that's the time that I won't be okay with it.
However, so far, I haven't had that problem yet, seeing as I've been quite busy with my studies as of late to really go out and bring my doll around with me for a photoshoot or something like that. So far, only my friends and some of my relatives have held my bjd, and, from what I can see, they seem to understand that they can't just throw her around or something as I value her a lot .xD

 

I let other people hold my dolls but only if I'm there to catch her in case she falls. I'm a little bit apprehensive in that sense.

 

I don't like to see other people hold my dolls, and I would NEVER let a stranger hold it, even if he/she askes for it correclty ;-; I'm afraid that they could drop it or mess his faceup. Yes, I let my little sister hold it, change his clothes carfully, and pose him, even to take some pictures. But I only let she do this 'cause I have teached her how to take care of him correctly, even so, I watch her while doing this to be sure she treats him correctly and DON'T TOUCHES the faceup. Apart from this, I don't like to take my doll to public places. It is very dangerous in the place that I live.

 

I have no problem with other people holding my dolls. I'm fine as long as I'm there just in case. In fact, they are the ones who have a problem! My friends are so afraid they will accidentally drop/damage them somehow. They wont even touch them as they're sitting on the shelf lol.

 

No, no, no, and no. I'm super-duper protective of my dolls. I don't like people picking them up, with or without asking. Odds are they'll hold them the wrong way (grabbing them by their ankles) or try to yank their wigs off or something. Other doll owners, if I knew any.... yeah, maybe. But other people in general, noooooope.

 

I am okay with it as long as they seem respectful about it and want to learn about them before holding it. I have let my family members hold one of my girls at our reunion and they were very gentle and nice about it.