the NICEST things people do or say

Unusual question, it's normally an abundance of horrible things people have said.

My mum once said that Kari 'has my eyes', that was very sweet.

Nicest thing was when my best friend Steven suggested we take Kit out to London for her first birthday. We went to eat at an American diner and took her all over sight seeing. It was a great day.

 

My parents and I live a long way appart and everytime I was on convention my mother ask if my Boys are okay afterwards. Thats so sweet, because at the beginning of my hobby she was against Dolls. And my parents will buy me a Dollbag for my Birthday. It would be a treasur for my beloved dolls.
Another sweet thing is, that a friend of mine offert to make cosplays for my boys, even she is not in BJDs.

 

Just the other week my dad was showing my family pics of my "weird dolls" that he took the week before. I think he kinda can't decide if my hobby is freaky because the amount I spend on it, or if it's art because of what I do with them. He did say Julian was gorgeous and he was fascinated by the jointed hands, lol. Anyway, my dad says "so how much are they again?" I like to shock people, so I mention the price of my most expensive doll. The jaws of all three of my brothers basically drop to the floor (they weren't familiar with my hobby at all yet) and my dad emphasizes (not for the first time) what else I could do with that much money. To my great surprise, it was my mom that quite knowledgably started to explain about them "keeping their value" and being all handcrafted and handpainted and stuff. I was like . I never knew she paid that much attention when I talked to her about my dolls!

 

I was out near the park by my house, taking photos of my Dollzone Mo.

This car is stopped at a red light, and a bunch of cute family members rolled down their windows and called out to me and my wife,

"eeeeeeek! I LOVE YOUR MO!!! I LIKE BJDS! YOU ARE SO CUTE! I LOVE, AWESOME STRANGERS!!"

and everyone else in the car was like spazzing and laughing and whatnot. Actually, I'm not sure if they DID roll down their window, or if they were just shouting so loud xD Coz they were REALLY happy! XDDD

 

I was at a meet when this little girl and her mother came up and asked if they could take pictures of my doll. I told them yes and both of them actually got their cameras ready. I was flattered about that, but then they both started complimenting Altair on how handsome he was. I couldn't stop smiling.

At the same place, during another meetup (a while later), we were setting up when a man who worked there asked where Altair's "awesome red guitar" was. I couldn't believe he remembered my doll, period!

At another meet (one that was outside), we had all set up our dolls in a little our of the way place with benches. This man with his little girl came up and he wouldn't let her touch them, but held her and let her look. She kept pointing to my fiancee's doll and saying, "Princess! Pretty princess!"
It was so adorable.♥

 

By having the only dollfie dream in my group, my doll is often sought out as 'Oh, how cute! She looks like an anime charactor'. I am an otaku, so that brightens my day. Also, I get lots of compliments on my Volks mix tweed carrier because I been told it looks like a stylish purse. Thank you for this thread. I'm sure we can find lots of negative energy from non-doll people but the positive non-doll people makes me continue on with this hobby.

 

My friend said my dolls are very pretty, and they said they want to buy one.

 

My mom said the best thing in the world about the hobby yesterday. We were talking about stuff and I mentioned how people are like that with the BJD hobby and I said: "It's not like we're spending tons of money on drugs there's so many worse things we could be doing right?"

Her: "I see it as an art form. I didn't like it at first but I supported you right? I mean these dolls are handmade, your learning to paint them, your sewing clothes I think it's an art form not just a hobby and it's just amazing what these people can do with these dolls."

I was like: "SHE GETS ME! SHE REALLY GETS HOW IT IS!" Mom also is my consultant on what I do with my littles. I sewed a wa-lolita outfit for one of my girls recently and I almost gave her this horrible clashing skirt with the top to the dress and my mom's input gave me instead of a hideous outfit a really gorgeous one that matches beautifully. She's really the best...I love her a ton.

 

Everything my mom says about my pukifee, Shadaloo. She believes that she is the single cutest doll in the universe, and when I told her that I was thinking about selling her to get the larger littlefee version a while back she practically threw a fit telling me that she is never leaving this house, ever. XD This, to me, was the nicest thing ever. She's not really interested in any of my other dolls, but how protective she is of Shadaloo in spite of the fact that she was initially skeptical about me spending so much on a such small doll is super sweet.

 

This may seem like a random one, haha.
So i was at a doll meet with dollies at a gardeny type place and then a family (one boy, one girl and a father) aproaches us. They take a liking to our dolls and the kids were really gentle with the dolls and asked to hold them. They really liked the dolls.

 

when people compliment my girl
I tend to ignore any negative comments made about anything that I like but it's always nice when she gets compliments
I took my girl shoe shopping with me the other day (I finally destroyed my shoes) and the lady helping me said she was really pretty and really liked her ^^
(I didn't get any weird stares there or at the grocery store we went to afterward either which is really strange)

 

Nicest thing someone's said about my dolls . . .

I tend to show pictures of my dolls to my coworkers. Most of them don't really care and see it as payback for making me look at pictures of their kids, which it kinda is, but one of our security people is actually interested. They all know Lumpi, since I draw him all the time at work, but I was showing her pictures of my RS Long, Tandrelim, and I saw her eyes about pop out of her head when she looked at his most recent pic with his new wig and clothes. I half expected her to ask if he was really a girl, but she commented that he looked sexy. I'm glad I have someone to talk dolls with at work even if she doesn't collect them herself. ^_^

 

The nicest
thing I could think of was when complete strangers walked up to me while I was
taking pictures of my dolls and ask me all sorts of questions. None of them
mean questions, but asking what I am doing, where did I get that doll, what
kind of doll is it, etc. While to some this may not seem "nice" per
se, but the fact they are curious and willing to stop and ask instead of stare
and gawk is nice in my book.

 

One time, ChronicallySpaced and I had two of our MSDs with us when we went to the grocery store for something, and the lady who usually works the self-checkout got all excited and asked us to send her a picture. She said they were " so cool!" and that her neice would love them! It made me feel all fuzzy inside, lol.

Also, I sent a picture of my DoC Kirill standing and my work-in-progress SDF Uriel to my mom, and she was all "YOUR DOLLS ARE SO COOL!!!" She also gave me a ton of fabric at one point and demanded pictures of the dolly clothes that I would make with it.

If I remember correctly, CS and I also got stopped at the Japanese gardens so someone could go grab their daughter/granddaughter (can't remember) to show her the dolls. It was pretty cool. I like it when people are nice/interested. n__n

 

My mom said that my BJD was an amazing piece of art.

This might not sound like much, but getting my mom to acknowledge anything I own (in a positive or negative way) is like drawing blood from a stone. The fact that she made that comment out of the blue made this hobby so much more special to me.

 

Probably when another friend of mine in the hobby found out that a doll that I wanted(A DZ Cherry) was going to be discontinued and then actually BOUGHT her for me, now all I have to do is pay her back. I love that girl.

 

Oh boy. I've had much more positive experiences than bad, thankfully. My friend, fiance, and I once had a security officer come up to us and watch us photograph our dolls for a while, before asking about them; he was really nice. I've had people at meets compliment my girls an awful lot... Nothing too outlandishly nice though--aside from my best friend buying me things for them left and right--and even going halfsies on a doll with my fiance for me. Hahah.

 

"When you said 'dolls' ... those aren't just dolls, they're pieces of art!" - my boyfriend's Mom upon seeing my girls for the first time

 

One thing I love is that I'm very young and deeply into this hobby (I'm 18) ; and I get such lovely comments from older generation folks, they absolutely love my dolls, and it brings a sparkle into their eyes when they play around with my doll.
It makes me happy when I can brighten up my boyfriends mom and grandma with my dollies; they love my girls a lot.
It makes me feel like my hobby is worthwhile.

His grandma even sends me cute dolly things now and then!

 

Probably when my uncle called my Pixiu 'cool' when it was on it's way home, (saw photos) and seemed to know what BJD's were. He and I don't get along usually though.