Missing your dolls.

I was just thinking about this yesterday! I absolutely do. When I started college, my mom didn't want me bringing any of my dolls with until we were sure they could be kept safe. During this time, I sorely missed my dolls. I'm very attached to my new boy, Xander, and lately when I'm away for a while I start to miss him. I wish I could take him everywhere with me. They really help to ease my anxiety problems and such, so not having any around bothers me quite a bit. Sometimes I tuck a tiny into my purse every now and then when I'm going away for the day.

 

Yes... Good lord... Last summer was hell, this one is proving to be the same... Even though I have one of my dolls with me I find myself terribly missing the other ones back at home.. I just wish I could see them and hold them and change their wigs and clothes and take photos >__< the only thing that keeps me sane is that at the very least I have that one with me and am waiting for a few things as well~

 

I don't usually miss them on a vacation. Vacations typically aren't long-term and I'm usually so busy with stuff that I don't miss much of anything from home. But when I moved away for school or the year I lived in Japan I missed my dolls a lot, and begged my parents to send/bring at least some of them to me (and, you know, bought more...).

 

Definitely.
I've been working all day everyday for the last 3 months and I have had no time for them and I'm missing them like crazy.
I just want to sit and snuggle or play with them and I just don't have the time

 

Last time I went away was to CA to do a big editing job year before last for one of my teachers. I got to take a master class he was doing and I had a free room in San Francisco but all of his students they had to swap their time while they were there for doing digital imaging work. I never pack heavy. I can't physically carry a lot of stuff and when traveling I don't like to. If it can't fit in one carry on that will fit under the seat I don't take it and that's including my laptop, charger, extra battery, and my own camera and a couple of lenses, and all the junk that goes with. I always plan on hitting a laundromat while I am there. I'd rather spend an hour doing that than carry more.

I left for a 10 day trip to SF with a carry on that had a couple of pairs of leggings, a couple of t-shirts including one big one to sleep in, a knit skirt, a shell top to match, tights, a belt, 4 pairs of undies, a couple of bras, an extra pair of socks, a laptop, my DSLR, 2 lenses, a small kit of my medications and so forth, a little travel blanket/pillow combo, and a paper book on SF.

I wore a couple of silver rings and a nice pendant I like, a warm fleece jacket, jeans, and a guy's long thermal type shirt, socks and sneakers. I had an Mp3 player and the charger for it tucked into one pocket and a little box with a few tiny Barbie dolls tucked into the other. Ten days and that was it, that was all I needed other than me picking up a few of those little toiletries at Walgreen's and a pair of Chinese shoes to dress up my skirt set a bit when I got there. I had books on the laptop to read at night, and on the trip, and plenty of music on the MP3 player.

You'll note on that list that small box of Barbie dolls. No, I don't like to go totally sans dolls, even when I travel I have a few tiny ones with me. There is no way I'd take anything expensive or large with me but there's always room for a few of those little 3" dolls and usually I pack a couple of extras, dolls and mini plushies that are duplicates so that if I happen to run into a kid when I am playing with mine I can give one away and make them smile. I usually carry a couple of small boxes of 6 mini crayons and a couple of little coloring books with me for that same reason. No, I'm not being creepy I'm actually being practical. I have nieces and a nephew and I'm used to being around little kids. There is nothing worse than getting stuck somewhere while traveling next to a bored little kid that Mom and Dad have not adequately prepared to entertain.

That happened to me once and I had to deal with a kid fussing and kicking my seat all the way to Jersey. 3 hour flight, I was ready to kill the kid by the time we were there. If a little toy or a coloring book will make them happy for a while I feel that's a worthy thing to waste some space in my bag with. Last trip I actually had a little girl and her sister next to me and I entertained them with a kid's movie that I put on my laptop actually. That particular part of my flight was 6 hours long and it was during the day but there were no movies on that airline and by hour 3 those kids had gone through every toy and book their Mom had brought with and they were about as cranky as two kids could get.

I put on that film and turned the laptop so they could see it too and they calmed down, ate a snack and finally gave their Mom across the aisle (and me) a much needed break. Their Mom was so happy and relieved that that the were being amused that she gave me a greeting card with a little gift card in it that she had originally intended for someone else. She handed it to me as I got off the plane and took off with her girls before I even had a chance to comment on it and thank her.

I collect dolls and plushies and lots of them, laugh, but I also like to give them away sometimes too. I consider myself a little ambassador of toyland. I almost always have some toy on me that I don't mind giving away in a worthy cause. I don't have kids of my own. Just never met the right guy and I'm not much into single parenting. Probably won't at this point. I'm technically able but I feel I'm getting a little too old to be contemplating them now and honestly I'm pretty happy being aunty to my SIL's kids. But I like kids and I like spoiling them so I always bring a few "extra" toys with me when I am on the road. I actually work a lot with them. I'm a photographer and a lot of my client shoots are for baby and child shoots. Comes with the job. It's bread and butter work, shrug. I have a big bag of little dolls and plushies and after the shoot if the kids have been good I always give them something to take home as a reward.

I would feel lonesome I think if I didn't take anything with me though to be fair I rarely travel and don't bring home a doll of some sort anyway. Some people bring home t-shirts or magnets to remind them of a new place? I bring home dolls. I hit the local toy stores, a discount store or two, a Target, whatever and I buy myself a new doll instead of all that. Everybody knows that I do that. That trip to SF I actually brought back a new Tonner that was a gift from my teacher and his wife. They gave me a Brenda Starr Reporter doll in a SF t-shirt they got from a little bear I guess and even rigged her up with a little notepad and a toy camera that was actually a key chain.

That was fun, grin.

 

Ambassador of toyland. I like that!

Usually I'm pretty busy when I'm away from home, so I don't get much of a chance to miss my dolls - but as soon as I get bored, it hits me something fierce. I'm still trying to figure out a way to bring at least one doll when I'm going to be away for 10 days next month. Unfortunately that trip includes hotel rooms and travelling without my car, so I'll have to be able to pack them up extra safe. (I usually sit them in a padded basket and cover them in blankets when I'm driving, but I can't take the car this time.) I'll also have to take instruments since I'll be playing at two weddings in the course of those 10 days so even an Iplehouse won't be the most expensive piece of art I'll be lugging around, but still ... I'll be spending a few days at my parents' place in-between the weddings and I know for a fact I'll wish I had allll my dolls with me to take pictures of them in the garden and stuff, maybe sew for them, use dad's workshop and tools to make furniture ... that, and I'd probably go insane without them anyway. They feel like extensions of my imagination, their characters have been hanging out in my headspace for more than a decade and now that I've actually got physical representations of them I find it hard to go back to the headspace thing.

 

I miss mine, yes. My Minifee Chloe and Pukifee Pongpong are currently out for a faceup and I miss them so much. They've only been gone a week. I still have my other 2 at home with me.

I miss my MSD Jasmine because she's currently body-less. It's sad.

 

When Hurricane Irene hit, my family and I had to stay in a hotel for a little while. I missed two of my dolls so much, I had to go back and get them!

 

I went on holiday with my then boyfriend for 10 days in 2008. I had just received my second doll, so I had two minis to play with and I left them both at home thinking I couldn't take them, plus it was supposed to be a romantic holiday for just me and my guy. When we landed in Budapest it was such a glorious city I could have taken so many awesome pictures with the dolls and my boyfriend at the time irritated me so much on that holiday that it would have been great to have the dolls there so I could have my own space and something to distract me from him!

I definitely miss my dolls when I'm away from home and out and about, although I don't have a proper secure doll carrier so I don't take them out very much.

 

Yes, especially when I go on doll meets. I always find me thinking of one of the dolls at home instead of focusing the one or two I brought with me.

When away, sometimes I miss them. As for example, this christmas I had to stay longer than normal at my parents and that month I missed my dollies at home so much! I found myself thinking of them alot, thinking of new ideas and new characters.

 

Yes.

All of my dolls are home with me right now, except Blake, who is off visiting my best friend, and I miss him SO much right now. I mostly try to focus on the others, or maybe shop for him.

 

Like many of the previous repliers, I do miss my dolls at times.

The biggest moment was when I started teaching and had a full load of lesson plans, supply lists, and in-between projects to create and enact for almost 300 disillusioned teenagers. It was a massive workload, not to mention the after-school activities I had to plan and attend. It left no time for my dolls. I was lucky if I could even get a glimpse of them before bed or over a long weekend (during which I was mostly planning and grading).

Summer vacation gave me back my dolls. It was the best ever. I missed them so much, to the point where I didn't even know what to do with them once I had them again. All I could do for a few days was just stare at them.

 

YES. Even if I'm just away for the night, I miss having my dolls to look at. I also sometimes bring just my tiny in my purse places, but then I want the others with me and I miss them. I'm very, very attached to my dolls. I'm leaving for the beach for a whole week in just a few days, and I don't know how I'm going to leave my dolls here!

 

yeah i miss them i have 2 at home but i have 2 thats not they are away for face ups i miss them so much

 

I would love to have a 1/6 doll I can carry with me when I travel

 

I've never missed a doll before because I've never been without them until now. I sent my first girls head off to get a faceup, and I miss and worry about her terribly ._. I didn't think this was going to happen, but it did. I worried like hell about her when she was in transit to the faceup artist because who knows how the post office treats boxes! And I'll continue to worry the entire time she's out of my possession >w< Her sister misses her, too. Everything feels incomplete to have one of my girls away <.< But I must get used to it because if I want to have beautiful custom faceups, they must be sent away. I hope it gets easier...

In relation to travel, unless I'm going somewhere where I would be buying tons of goodies (Like a convention or to Japan) I would be bringing at least one of my girls with me so it wouldn't be too bad. But I'd certainly miss them while I would be gone, cause I can't feasibly take them all with me.

 

I mostly go on trips where I can bring at least one doll. I brought Leah to my local convention and I'm bringing her to SDCC next week. I even brought her to the hospital when I was admitted because she's one of my security items that helps lessen my anxiety. When I visited my grandma for ten days, I brought Leah and my floating head. When I have multiple dolls, it will be really hard to travel because I'll want to bring them all but I won't have the room. It'll probably come down between Cordiel and Michael at that point, since they're two characters who are particularly close to me. Though if I ever get Clair, he might just have to follow me everywhere... if I can fit an SD in my bag. It's easier traveling with an MSD.

But I do think I would miss them if I had to go out of the house for long periods of time.

 

Sometimes I'll take one of my dolls with me if I'm going to be gone for awhile with nothing to do, but when I don't take them, I do miss them a lot. ^^

 

I miss my dolls all the time! Especially my precious little Finch. >n<