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What Advice Would You Give a Beginner in the Hobby?

Oct 15, 2025

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    1. I make all of the bad decisions. Especially since I want ALL of the dolls and have no clue how much money this hobby needs and all of the work goes into ANNNNNYYYYYYTHING. I followed the advice of "you'll be happiest if you craft EVERYTHING yourself". I took that advice KNOWING I'm terrible at crafting and blew that money on buying more dolls. Ended up with nude dolls with NO face ups and no clothes and quite a few without bodies. Sad, over budget, stressed out because I can't FIX anything. I got even more stressed out because I think I have bad tastes in dolls.

      But, you know what? There may be a moment where you have a bad time and that can happen anytime in the craft. Crafting, an impulse purchase, missing out on a limited doll and it wasn't FOMO, nature (yellowing, earthquake, etc), staining, a sell goes wrong, etc.
      It felt odd, that time when I accidently damaged my favorite doll's face a few months ago. For some reason I was okay with that, when I thought I would not be okay with that kind of event.

      I still feel a bit bummed about how my collection looks and I feel I have a harsh learning curve still ahead of me. But, when I see someone having a total blast with their doll and it makes me want to strive for my collection to give me that feeling, as well. Yeah, I failed at buying all of the dolls, BUT I have a lot of raw potential at my finger tips. I'm excited that I'm going to style some dolls into cuties one day!
      I hope that counts as wisdom. Sorry, I'm not good at things. But, I believe you can do this.

      Did I mention that my dolls are bald??
       
      #21 tinyflame, Oct 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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