Mother, artist or collector

Artist,collector

 

Artist, collector. I will never be a mother, so I sometimes wonder if I'm not catching up a little on the naming and dressing of children that I never got to do. And I used to like to "color" with kids and "play games" -- even as an adult which made me think having kids and playing with them would be a little like getting to revisit the fun parts of childhood. And to some degree I feel like I've remained a child since I never moved up into the ranks of a parent. I'm not even an aunt.

 

Collector all the way. I'd love to be more involved in the artist aspect, but simple haven't had the chance, yet.

 

Purely a collector. No more, no less. I am so utterly NOT artsy -- if you look up 'artist' in the dictionary and go to the antonym section, you'll see my picture. I am also already a mother, and my walking talking occasionally-a-total-pain-in-the-ass doll completely trumps any and all inanimate chunks of resin in my affections. So thus. Collector.

 

Collector, surely...
In the past, I am sure I might have been an "artist", but that is simply not my reality anymore.

 

I'm definitely a collector. Although I prefer to hybridize dolls and think how they are supposed to look, I'm not really an artist, 'cause when they're done; they're done. Mostly my dolls sit there looking pretty, sometimes I take pictures (although, not nearly enough) and sometimes I'm thinking of a background story to give me somewhere to go with when I'm giving them a look. But that's it.

The only times when I'm coming close to the 'artist' is when I'm sculpting.

EDIT:
Oh yeah, about the 'mother' thing: Dolls are just pretty objects to me. They don't have a personality and the only time I'm 'talking' to them, is when a curse slips from my lips when the thing won't do what I want ;p.

 

I'm a mix of mother and artist I guess. Though I consider them more adult roommates. I take them out whenever I can and play with them. I watch movies with them, or they hang out when I play games. I almost always have one with me. I'm very fidgety though and usually need something to keep my hands busy. I like to make them everything and take lots of photos even though I rarely post them. They always seem to be a work in progress.

 

Definitely NOT a mother, and very bothered when non-doll people seem to think it is a mother thing . And they always seem to think so.

 

Collector with a streak of artist. My dolls are things I have an idea of what they should look like, and I enjoy doing the finishing, i.e. finding the right outfits, commissioning faceups, etc.

The mother thing creeps me out. I'm a real mother myself, and it's just not even on the same level! It's embarrassing to think of people seeing my hobby and assuming I think my dolls are people who need treating like people.

 

I'm like a mix between the mother and the collector. I'm not really an artist because the only artistic thing I do is photograph them; I don't sew or do faceups myself or anything like that. I do have a deep attachment to my dolls, and I care about them and play with them a lot... However, most of them don't have fancy characters or anything like that, they're just pretty girls. I don't call them my kids, but I do consider them friends.

 

This! Nearly exactly what I would say, but better articulated! I love questing for the perfect combo of eyes, wig, and outfit to bring my vision of who my doll should be to life.

I am NOT the mothering type, but to each their own. I save my mothering for my cats.

When I got my first doll my mom kept want to refer to her as her "grandchild". To which my reply was "No, mom, it is just a doll. You have grandkittens, remember?"

 

D. All of the above

 

More mother/artist than collector, but not really either. I like doing artsy stuff with them, and I feel they have special personalities, but I'm not their mother and often go for extended periods with barely a glance at them let alone doing anything artsy.

 

Father and a collector! I love my girls as much as I would daughters (I don't have any in reality, so I'm just speculating a bit here) but they're not just beautiful object. Yes, they are beautiful but not an object. I would say a collector cause I just like to expand my "family" (or collection).

 

I'm 70% collector, 30% artist. I do their faceups, make wigs, props, and furnitures but I suck at sewing. And I don't really feel like I'm a mother. To me, dolls are just pretty objects that make my life more enjoyable.

 

I would say similar to mother, however I don't think of my dolls as my daughters. I tend to refer to them as my 'girls' or 'the kids', the same way I refer to my roomates/friends. So I suppose the category of 'toy-friend' would be most accurate for me, as while I definitely see them as having personalities and, in my head, their own thoughts and wills, they are still toys which I can take out, spend time with, and then if I'm busy leave on a shelf for a while...
Very complicated. They're my resin friends!

 

If anything I fit into the "collector" definition. My dolls are representations of my own characters [for my novel that will never ever be written cuz I have no inspiration but the story still "exists" as a sort of continuous thing]. I may refer to them as "my babies" from time to time but I don't think of them in any sort of maternal fashion or as being alive. I don't talk to them or think of them of kids or anything. And I'm not all that artistic outside of the odd doodle, so definitely no face ups being done over here.

As for how I feel about the other "types" of BJD owners, to each their own, I don't really care. I couldn't really relate all that well to, say, a mother type of owner, but we still have a love of BJDs in common and that's good enough.

 

I picked collector but ultimately I'm all of those things. I collect dolls, but I call them my kids. I also see them as art projects for me to customise and get perfect to my requirements. They have personalities and back stories, but I don't see them as 'real' the only life they have is what I put into them. But I would miss them if I were apart from them for too long.

 

if i had to choose from the options, I would be a collector, although i Love my mizuho and she has her own story and life, collector suits me best. however i like to think of it more that Mizuho owns me!!

 

If an outsider saw me with my dolls, they may see me as their mother: I dress them, sort their wigs out etc. But I would say I am none of them. I just enjoy looking at them/taking pictures/getting them outfits.