The dolly revolving door and the hobby slumps

I'm super stubborn and won't sell my dolls. I'll do extreme mods on them before I'll give up on them. Then again I'm super super careful before I buy dolls. There's been tough financial times when I've sold everything my dolls had and let them sit naked for a while rather than put them up on the MP.

All my dolls are second hand, kind of like how all my pets are shelter pets. I tend to think of them the same way. We're family.

 

I've kinda been in the slumps myself. But i think that's mostly because i have no one to share the hobby with.
But I'm trying to get out of that. And get out there with youtube and meet new people.
Anyways. Lol. I have sold two dolls so far. My Sd boy who has too big for me.
Lucky for me he wasnt on the marketplace for tooo long. A few months maybe.
I was sad that i had to sell him, as i loved his charcter. But I'm notselling his charcter, which is what i tell myself when i sell a doll.
And i already have another sculpt in mind for him.
Then i sold my littlefee des. And i just couldnt bond with her. I dunno. She justt didnt come together like i wanted.
So i sold her, and lucky for me again she sold faster then i thought.
And then i just bought a sculpt to reshell her in that i think will be perfect.
So I'm rambling. But when it comes to me in a slump its mostly me not being as involved as id like to be.
Which im trying to work on. But when it comes to selling. I just tell myself I'm not selling the character.
And look for another sculpt to fit the character and go from there.
So yeah. Lol.

 

I've been in slumps before with my hobbies - I like painting and quilting in addition to dolls. I have an quilt I made for my son that I've not finished yet that's been sitting for a few months. I've not painted in a year but I leave my stuff in a drawer waiting for the spark to come back. Same thing with my dolls - sometimes they sit for a few months without me touching them. I've been tempted to sell them before because I didn't feel connected to a couple of them but my husband pretty much put a stop to that idea. He said if we spent so much on that doll I should just keep it and figure out how to make it work rather than give up in it and take a loss. I'm really glad I listened to him because I might have really regretted getting rid of them - the same way I would regret getting rid of my sewing machine, fabric or paints.

 

I never considered selling my dolls, but I did replace a head once, and sold the original. But now that my collection has reached 'critical mass', and I really don't have anymore room, I'd really like to replace one or two of my dolls with other sculpts I like better. Even so, I find it hard to sell the ones that I don't really bond with. There's also a couple I think I could sell, but then I needed to borrow a wig from one, and she's so beautiful, so now I don't know.

 

Yep You nailed it on the head there Jenny,
perhaps you should take a break, have a rest from eternally buying.
I have only not liked 1 doll upon arrival and that was demon Claude, but since traded him, I have not been happier!
Slumps do come and go, so do the dolls it seems. But it is also good to have more than 1 hobby!
In a couple of months you could feel completely different!

 

Ok, let me see... There was a time, when I purchased my third doll, I opened the box and it was like "What is this??? O__O"
I ordered bluefairy Xiao, and she was so mysterious, elegiac, delicate and soft in pictures, with those big eyes of her... But when she came - she was a total alien, seriour and strict. That was a shock! I think I even steped back from the box that moment.
But then I felt guilty before her, gave her a dress, a wig etc. And I just watched her from a distance since then.
I tried to play with her, the other people seemed to think, she's cute. But I just couldn't understand what to do with her! To be frank I still don't, and I desided to find her a more mature body, maybe change a face up... This also changed her story: she was supposed to be a poor orpfan - insted she became a daughter of a king, the last living heir of a royal family. So that could explain her severe look at least a bit.
In other words, I tried to get on with the doll, which appeared to be not what I wanted her to be.

And a year ago I bought a Raurencio Studio Marco Dream limited edition in tan skin. I liked the face sculpt, but I didn't like the body at all. At first I thought that the body is not so much important - it is hidden by the clothes after all. But this year I put him to the "for sale" list. I do not know why, I just don't feel like I can coop with him. Maybe because I was not exacly content with his looks from the very beginnig, even before purchase.

My tastes changed from the moment I started collecting, but I still find my first dolls the best in their own style. So I don't want to sell them or give them away. I think that's a very personal matter, and depends both on you and the doll itself.

 

I've had the "dolly revolving door" problem for about two years now. My problem was that I just couldn't seem to find my preferred aesthetic of dolls. I started with a white skin Doll Chateau msd, which looked amazing in pictures but wasn't "me" when I got her home. She sat in her box for her duration of time with me, me only getting her out to try a new look on her and still not liking it. That doll taught me that I didn't like white skin or the thinness of a slim msd.

Then I tried yo-sd with a dust of dolls appi, which I loved aesthetically but was intimidated by her very limited availability. It was like I couldn't enjoy playing with her because I knew if I ever damaged her there would be no replacing her. So that doll taught me that I didn't really like limited dolls for some reason.

I traded my appi for a full set soom amber only to find that I didn't so much care for her style of face. Again, pretty in pictures but not to my tastes in person. I then bought and sold two sd sized dolls, a supia rosy who I thought was very pretty but never could put a character to regardless, and a artist cast head on a volks body who I never liked.

So recently I sold every doll I had and piled all the funds into one place so that when the right doll came along I could get it. After looking around for a few weeks I found dollmore alexia, who I had adored when she first came out but wasn't sure about her size at the time because I had already decided I didn't like msd because it was too thin. But then I realized that she was more thick , closer to an sd in thickness to an msd, and just a little taller then the average msd. Since I didn't like the "leggyness" of sd dolls, I decided to give her a shot.

I am so glad I did! She is actually the first doll I have ever loved in person, all the others I either disliked or was "meh" about. I am so happy at least she will escape the revolving door!