Would you loan someone your doll or ask to borrow one?

um NO, unless i knew this person...and only if i had a way of making sure that the doll was coming back. like taking care of one of their dolls. but prolly not. i like all of my friends a lot but i would have a hard time giving my girls to them...besides i can't imagine how i would say goodbye to my girls....makes me sad thinking i wouldn't have them by my side

 

I have to say no. There are MAYBE two people on earth I would let "borrow" my dolls ever. But I doubt I could do it.

 

At this early point in my collecting I'd have to say no. I'm not comfortable with lending my dolls out. The only person I would lend them to is my daughter
but with a list of do's, dont's and many warnings to be careful she probably wouldn't want to after that.

But I'm still a newb given time I know I'll loosen up a bit.

 

the only 2 people i would EVER let take my dolls to their house and keep them there for more than the time i was there is my closest friend in the world nicole (gothiclolitadoll), because we've known each other sense i was 7, and at this time it's been 12 years that i've known her, and she got me into the hobby ^^. and my boyfriend, and only because i'm at his house all the time, and then they are at his house they are wrapped in their custom blankets and in their box. nicole is the only person i would trust with them out of the box, there's too many people i hate that go to my bf's house -_- (that and the only reason why there there is that they're not supposed to be here yet....i'm a horrible person T^T ^.~)

but that's it. i don't care if you own dolls and we get along like sisters/brother and sister. NO. i don't care if my dolls aren't limited and everyone can get them. you do things when you want something >.< BUUUUUUUT, that doesn't mean i would love them any less ^^

 

I do have my friend's doll with me right now (well, with me for about 3 or 4 years) and she has my girl for about a year
but none of us know when these 2 dolls will return to original owner

to a close friend like her, why not? she knew I love her boy and I knew she love my girl XXXD
but to someone I'm not that familiar.... no, I won't

 

Well I don't usually loan out my kids except last time, my friend want me to make a boy clothes for her boy so she let her boy stay at my house over night. Plus my mum don't let me to let my kids out for over night. She always said, if something happen who you gonna blame? So yea... my kids all never being loan out!

 

Nah, I'd rather not lend my kids out. I have lots of close friends, but I fear that even lending my boyfriend of almost 3 and a half years my doll over night would end up badly. You know, with pets (100lb+ dogs), mean brothers, and other things, I don't really know if I could trust someone, or at least the people around them.

 

My dolls are going to be idols, statues of the gods I worship, I'm not too shure how they would feel about it. Maybe if it was a very very close friend. I happen to live with my best friend of 10+ years, prolly I would only lone one to her.

 

I let my friend borrow my doll today at a meet xD She used Ruki for a little while, and also Nao. o-o I see no problem with it.

 

I would go with the 'depending who is asking' too
If it was someone I know who knows how to handle dolls then sure... My brother - never.

 

Friends who I trust and either have dolls or understand their worth, I would, yeah. I have, in fact. But only because I trusted her completely

 

I am not a trusting person. I would never loan my doll to anyone (not even my own sister) and I would never ask to borrow someone else's either. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I borrowed someone's doll and it got damaged or lost or stolen or something. Too much emotion involved with my dolls to ever let them go to anyone.

 

I let my boyfriend borrow my Minifee Soo while he was waiting for his own doll to arrive. He had her for almost two months. However, he is like a brother to me, something beyond a friend or a boyfriend, and I would trust him with anything. Not to mention, he loved that doll more than I did. So much so that he actually bought her from me not too long ago!

I guess it also helped that I'm at his house every other day. I don't think I could lend my doll to someone I rarely see.

 

I would to my closest friends... who are actualy on this board! Orca, and Kris, and Aiko... I would loan my dolls to them.

 

I think that, for most people, I would let them borrow my doll for fitting purposes by coming over there with the doll. There are only a few people I would allow to be unsupervised, and I would never leave something that means so much to me at someone else's house if I didn't absolutely trust them to the ends of the earth. Although the items in question were not dolls, I have known friends who have lost very important or very expensive items when someone asked to "just borrow it" and then stopped returning phone calls. :/ I don't want to take that risk. If someone really wants to make clothes and use my doll as a dressmaking dummy, I don't think the qualification that I am present should really be a big deal. (And then I'd get to see my friend~)

 

There's many friends of mine that I like, but I already know from when they ask to borrow something from me or money, I kinda get an idea how they would treat my dolls. Wiether intentional or not, people do make mistakes, it takes a person who's really looking out for your things when borrowing them that you can really trust.

With that said, there's only two people now I would let borrow my most of my dolls. If it's my limited dolls though, never leave my hands. I can risk my dolls so much but would be beside my self in angst should something ever happen to my Euclase boy.

 

I have some friends who I have no qualms lending my dolls out to because I know they're extremely careful with things that aren't theirs. [Even if they seem like they don't look after their own things!] Said friends also do the same; they give me their dolls to babysit or look after. I'm pretty liberal with my dolls.

 

I'm actually pretty fortunate in having a good group of friends I can trust with my dolls, who also trust me with theirs. Currently I have three full dolls in my home that don't belong to me. One was left here by a local friend since I offered to repaint, blush and tattoo her. One was sent by a friend overseas to be repainted and have a custom outfit made for him by my girlfriend. And the third was sent by a wonderful friend who knew I'd been missing my guys (seven of them are headless and packed away right now while their heads are out of the country being repainted), so she sent me my favourite of her boys to keep me company.

I have four friends I would, without hesitation really, lend some of my guys to. Thankfully one of them lives with me so it's not all that hard. :B But the other three have dolls my characters all have connections to, but don't live locally so it's the only way to have photos of them together save the once in a blue moon we get to visit each other.

 

My mother borrowed Lillian for a few days when she was making an outfit for her. I know she is carefull with her so I didnt feel bothered that Lillian was out in her house. I saw it as grandma sleepover .

Dont think I will be so easy on ppl I hardly know .

 

It depends on who's asking. I would definitely loan my doll to someone I trust absolutely, even if they were overseas. I would hope they would likewise know that I treat not only my dolls but anyone else's as if they were more precious than gold. In fact, recently an acquaintance's doll had an accident, & while that person wasn't terribly concerned, I was (& still am) quite upset by it - & it isn't even my doll!

I do custom outfits. I've been struggling to fit outfits to unseen dolls based on their measurements, & by making "muslins" (mockups in cotton), mailing them to the commissioner, & having them fit them to the doll, make adjustments, &c. if any; but it's a cumbersome & time-consuming way to go, & I find it so frustrating, I probably won't accept any more commissions for which I don't have a doll immediately available for fitting "in person" as it were, if only because the kind of outfits I make require very careful, close fitting & involve layers of historically correct underpinnings that are part of the ensembles; or because there are other special requirements. I'll be doing a commission shortly which involves tailoring a jacket so that it can accomodate a shoulder holster underneath on one side. That means I MUST have the doll. Fortunately, the owner is willing to send her to be fitted in person. I currently have a doll whose outfits also require precise fit. She is handled as if she were made of spun sugar, & kept extremely safe, clean, & secure while I work with her; when I'm not, she's kept with my own dolls, out of the way where nothing short of an act of God is going to harm them. She'll be returned asap I can finish, so as to reunite her with her 'mom' as quickly as possible. I know I'd miss my kids if they were away, & I presume others do, too.

I will be sending half a dozen of mine to a friend who needs them later this summer for an extended photoshoot. I know she'll take care of them, so it's not an issue for me.

So all in all, I'd have to reiterate: it depends on the person, & the need.