Overwhelming support of your hobby?

My family is used to my strange hobbies. Most of them really could care less. My younger sister seems interested in them but I don't think she likes the price. She'd rather spend money on purses and clothes.

My co-workers get a kick out of them and are always asking questions about Izzy's clothes and stuff.

It is always fun when I take my doll out shopping. I get alot of stares and quite a few questions. But I don't mind, they usually ask what kind of doll she is and where I got her. Nothing bad.

 

Well I just got my first doll here a couple of weeks ago, and I have had no bad remarks about Layla. My boyfriend supports, and especially my best friend Amy who got me hooked in first place. My co-workers want to see her since I talk about her so much. It can't be no more expensvie then my anime addiction. It is more neutral anyway.

 

when I brought my first doll to class I was overwhelmed with the positive response. I studied animation and most of my classmates were anime-fans and big followers of everythigng beautiful and asian. One girl even started crying because she wanted one of her own. ^__^; heh... Everyone wanted to hold her, draw pictures of her and one girl made her a pretty dress to wear.

 

My younger sister is the same way! XD What is it with little sisters? Is there somthing programmed in them at birth...?

 

I find a lot of good feedback, really, because I tend to ignore those who give me the Look for carrying around a doll despite clearly being an adult.

When I post photos of my dolls on LiveJournal, the usual response is my friends grinning because "she's at it again", commenting on the clothing, and I always get at least ONE who's missed the boat up to this point and starts squeeing about how THEY WANT WANT WANT which leads me to pull out Doll Buying 101 (I really ought to codify it and save it for future squeeing, lol).

Lots of people comment on how charming Baron is. If they know the movie he's from, they go insane. It's great. (I nearly had one person in Epcot's Japan wet herself, it seemed!) A lot of people also comment, "Oh, do you make his clothes? HOW COOL!!!"

The workers at my local Jo-Ann's have dubbed me "the remnants girl" because I show up about once a week or more often to rummage through the cut-price remnants bin...a yard of fabric is a WEALTH when you have MSDs! They like commenting on the clothes more than on the dolls, really, haha.

As a matter of fact, I've found that people will focus on the handmade clothes if they don't care for the doll itself and don't want to be rude, because handmade anything these days is something people enjoy.

My parents don't know about my hobby and I don't think they'd care except to make sure I wasn't bankrupting myself to buy dolls (which is why I still haven't told them yet, because I'm still pretty broke, rofl!) I've mentioned to my mother that I sew doll clothes but I'm guessing she just thinks it's another one of those "wacky anime costume" things her daughter does.

Sometimes you get the occasional bad reaction when carrying the dolls in public, but I toughened myself up to THAT crap when I had my son, who happened to be a rat. The reactions I got to him (since he was always with me or I would talk about him constantly if he wasn't) were far worse than any I've received over dolls.

 

*waves*

I was one of your stalkers at the conference, but I couldn't help myself. Your dolls are beautiful. Not to mention it really cemented my desire to buy one for myself. Now, the hard part...picking out the perfect doll! Oh, and saving up for her!

Krissy

 

My Mom at first was horrified at the idea of so much money for one thing, but said it was my money and afterall I no longer lived with her so...*shrug* I brought Chris home, she thought he was cute but was still kinda stand-offish about it. A month later, Lucas came home but she didn't know about it for a week or so...then I cracked and told her (Moms just have this effect OK!?). None too happy about that...

But then I got interested in sewing and she started teaching me, and then I would go shopping with her and find doll sized things. She started calling them my "critters" since I don't have any pets. She's very supportive now and even went halfies with me on my Narae60! I almost cried! XD

My sister thinks they are awesome and nerdy, because she gets to make fun of my with my new nerdy obsession. But she's supportive too.

 

Yuko's family live close to the famous Awashima Shrine (a place where dolls of all sorts, inhabited by spirits) are housed, enshrined and so forth. As a consequence, most family a friends are quite taken with the little clan.

Indeed, Master Ikehara, the head of one of the shrine groups has even gone so far as to call the blessings of the kami down upon my misbegotten lot - not that they appreciated it, mind you (and I am sure Verina would have had thoe old 'heretic' buring in righteous fire if she'd had her way, but she gets like that after months in hibernation)

 

My husband is very supportive of my hobby, although I'm sure he's not too thrilled of it's cost

Most of the time though, I don't include him on my purchase decisions. I used to ask his opinion but I started to feel that he may think I'm crazy how much time and energy I spend on it.

 

My mom has not only been a supporter, but she has almost been a bit of a pusher. I love that she gets excited anytime a doll is sent to me! She gave my mnf elf shiwoo a little kiss on the head when I showed her the doll! How great is that?!

 

My mom at first told me I couldn't get one until my friend eventually kind of got her used to it because she would bring her doll with her everywhere she went. It wasn't until after a doll meet that I told my mom that I really wanted one and she agreed...if I passed my driving exam (failed the first time) and passed which I did. So we went doll hunting. So we bought all the clothes and we thought we bought the doll when the company (which shall remain nameless) told us that they were out of stock. So we had the clothes but no doll to put the clothes on...we waited and then bought a doll...which we are still waiting for. My mom even bought one for herself. I remember showing my cousin's the clothes (they're really young 4, 6, and 8) and they were really excited, now whenever they come over they ask if the doll has arrived yet and I tell them that I'll call them when he arrives!

 

My parents are fine with it and now they see it is more than just a hobby (I'm a reseller now too) they still don't understand the fun of it all but they let me doing my thing.

My sister is more sceptic, my best friend doesn't mind and takes me the way I am, my partner he said there shouldn't be dolls in the living room and than he wouldn't mind. There are dolls in the livingroom right now and even long before "now" and he doesn't seem to be bothered after all.
My BJD friends understand me fully.

I feel rich and happy and more or less understood

 

My mom has given me SOOO much support. When cards with graduation money (how i'm paying for Lestat) started comming in from my family she kept asking if i had gotten anything/how much i had gotten and was so excited with me. When i woke up this morning, in fact, i had a card from my grandparents waiting and i was trying to be polite and not look straight at the check amount but the moment i opened it my mom was all "so, how much?!" XD I think my step-dad was being supportive in his own way, he bought me the scratch off lotto ticket thinks, like 20 of them. XD no luck there though, lol.

This one girl at school was so helpful to! I was trying to think up names for the boys i have planned, and i was stuck on one and she gave me a whole bunch of names and then every day she's ask how my boys' personalities were comming along!

Everyone else says how pretty they are but its not worth the money XP

 

My good friend loves them now that I showed her them. My mom also adores the fact that they are so pretty. Which I was happy about considering the boys have little p3n0rs which sat reativly well with her.

 

My younger sister is supportive, she can't afford dolls of her own but loves mine. My younger cousin has a doll of her own, and adores mine. My grandmother really loved my dolls. She has dementia, and no short term memory really, but she has enjoyed seeing them and they seem to help give her something new and interesting to keep her mind busy.

 

My family has been supportive from the beginning. My father was probably the most wary of the cost, but he respects the way I manage my life and money, and he sees how useful the dolls can be. My brother thought i was nuts until I introduced him to my Namu hybrid (read: plopped the doll in his lap) at which point he decided that bjds are awesome.
Most of my friends have serious hobbies of their own so they understand the amount of work that I put into dolls. One in particular absolutely loves them and is always asking me how 'the doll boys' are doing.

 

Well I haven't had a comment that I've deemed negative if that counts. I love hearing my friends' comments and stuff because I get such lulz from it.

 

My mom is neutral about it and so is my bf. They know that it makes me happy though so they are positive about it. I have a coworker who is a collector too so she loves my girls. My other friends are excited to see them too. So I think I've gotten about 98% good responses from people. ^__^

 

Not really ]: Although my mom is the most supportive...

She's always listening to me blab about my dolls, and will sometimes give me advice on how to save, or what I should get first. Just recently I was talking about the next doll I'm planning (Crobidoll Nia) and she just nodded and said: "Just be sure to finish Kori, you know that you want him in your senior photos..."

I had even forgotten that So Nia has been put on temporary hold as I work towards finishing my first doll this summer :3 She's still a bit shocked at the price, and tries to talk me down sometimes. But she knows I work hard and is slowly coming around to every aspect of this hobby...

I love my mommy