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Loving your Dolls when times are tough

Nov 16, 2025

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    1. I'm in a rather tough spot right now and I usually back away from hobbies when I've got too much on my mind to avoid "staining" them with bad feelings. But when I took time off my dolls this year I've felt a whole lot of guilt about putting them away, because time goes by anyway, things age and moments are lost. So I'm learning to lean into my hobbies as a distraction and worry less about this purity, so to speak. This way it becomes a giving and taking rather than yet another responsibility to take care of.
       
      #21 lutke, Nov 30, 2025
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    2. This encapsulates much of how I feel too! I see them as beautiful, interactive statues/art, and to not interacting with them feels like a waste of monetary resources or their purpose as a doll, even though we all know they don't feel and there is no "wrong way" to appreciate the hobby; Augh it's such a hurdle to overcome... I was able to take time this Thanksgiving to have a craft night with my family and I made Wilbur a new hoodie-- at least it was meant to be a hoodie but I didn't account for the Velcro backing, so he ended up with a sweater with a pouch ^^;
      Also my wife has a therapy light for her desk and she enjoys it! She very much resembles a sunflower or a sun-basking cat <3 I hope it can give you the same respite this season!
       
      #22 Panzellie, Nov 30, 2025
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    3. I think that is a great way to put aside the "weight of expectations" that can come from this hobby honestly! What hobbies do you want to lean into? I personally took up sewing doll clothes at the moment, and am working on addressing my perfectionism as well (If it isn't going to look good, I don't want to do it, but nothing I make will ever look good unless I do it). Maybe in 2026 I will try prop sculpting with clay; very much like how you mentioned making it a giving and taking without having to just "responsibility" of caring for them.
       
      #23 Panzellie, Nov 30, 2025
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    4. @Panzellie I mostly paint (on paper, unrelated to dolls) and I had put off doll photography for a bit because I don't have a satisfactory look with the dolls I alredy own, I've missed opportunities with location shooting, and I'd like to get an actual camera, but I think I'll just take more photos with what I have while I work on these things.
       
      #24 lutke, Nov 30, 2025
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    5. I used to refuse spending time with mine when times were rough, but because times were really, REALLY rough. I was in two really harmful relationships back to back. I needed time to heal from them, which is still involving a lot of therapy. It just simply was not safe enough for mine to be out, unless I wanted to risk them being damaged or sold beneath my nose. Now that it is safe not just for me, but also for my doll, I can happily return to the hobby. I’m happily married to someone who is aware of the hobby and who understands and is at least aware of their value. He also has an expensive hobby, so we’re both trying to bring the other into our passions.

      Sometimes it isn’t so much a matter of whether you’re “not feeling it”. Sometimes it is… But in some cases, it’s about whether or not the conditions to involve yourself in the hobby is safe or not. I’m really glad I kept my girl safe during those hardships. And at times in the beginning of my therapy journey when I did open her box and play with her, just to ignite the will to look forward to more tomorrows. They can be our lifelines sometimes. That is quite the gift, which is why I treasure my girl so much. She reminds me to keep going. Keep creating. Keep expecting the unexpected; because now I’m listening to what SHE wants to look like and how she wants to be perceived and maybe I’m projecting but learning more about her by just sitting with her is both hilarious and joyful.

      Be gentle with yourself, give yourself some credit, but also give your dolls credit too. Sometimes just having them near can make or break a gloomy day. That’s all you might need, just holding space with them, if that’s what it takes on low energy days. Still counts as partaking in the hobby. Thinking about them, window shopping for them, thrifting for them, it all counts.
       
      #25 steampunk_saskia91, Dec 8, 2025
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