Falling out of love with dolls...

[embyquinn]

I've had dolls all my life, and this has definitely happened to me. I keep worrying that I'll fall out of love with Cherry, but it's going on two years now and she's still my main girl. I still love my other dolls, too, but Cherry is definitely the star now. I almost don't even look at resins anymore because she fulfills a need I never knew existed.

[Alopecia No Hime]

I've fallen out of love with Holly her butt is up for sale officially I just need to make a thread for her.

[Evelien]

Just to clarify, the 100+ dolls I have collected and will never throw away are 6" dolls, so they don't take up a lot of space . The best looking dolls and all unique fashions I own are on display, the others are in boxes for spare parts or rerooting/fixing up.

I've been a bad, baaaad pack rat before, but every year I manage to throw away more crap I don't use anyway. It's just that I'm a creative person and I love having drawers full of different kinds of paper and creative materials... so yeah. Some things I just really can't throw away. I use more and more of that stuff at work though (I work as a primary school teacher), which also helps.

I've slept on it and it might sound weird but yeah, I think I'll sell Sosha and Eva, my 60cm Obitsus, or at least their bodies. But first I will do a new faceup on their heads now that I've improved, perhaps I will fall back in love. I'm afraid it's the bodies I've fallen out of love with though. It's the material, not the sculpts. I love Obitsu for my smaller dolls (I *really* want a little 11cm for example) but for the bigger ones I prefer resin. Even though Obitsus will always pose better - I just love the look and feel of resin, I can't help it.

DollyKim, do you believe your dolls have souls? Because I don't to be honest, and even though it will be hard to sell them when I do, I don't think I'll be hurting them like I'd hurt a pet animal after only holding on to it for a little while and then chuck it away. After all, dolls are just things... do you disagree?

[DollyKim]

99.99% have what I now consider to be a doll soul, it's not the same as a soul for a living thing but can come very close if it's loved or venerated enough. Other things can have this happen too, statues, sacred places and so on. Every now and again a doll can take the extra step like the Velveteen Rabbit. I've had other people tell me my Xavier is real and I think I've seen some other dolls around here who are as well.

For me Xavier is a place for my guardian angel to be, long story short he's one of several Christophers, so he has a lot of spiritual energy focused through him. Dolls can soak up heavy emotions and I don't see it beyond those who have been around tragedy to give off the vibes of being haunted. And X did remind me on his first birthday he's still just a doll and I shouldn't worry if he gets hurt, he's not my first special/transition object and won't be my last.

[arrowchild]

Every so often, usually when I'm feeling overwhelmed by the hobby, I take a good hard look at my collection and decide which dolls I love/would be sad to be without, and which dolls are pretty, but not as loved as they could be elsewhere. I have a few that I can't dream of ever parting with, and most I love more than enough to keep, but those dolls that aren't getting the attention I know they could with someone else, I sell. I like thinking that they get oodles of adoration at their new home where, with me, they were a bit neglected. So far, this has worked very well for me, (I only have one little guy that I regret selling...he haunts me a bit even two years after parting with him lol)

[AlmySidaKay]

For me the last time it was, "omg there is one of my dream dolls, well I can offer up doll X!" They then turned down my offer, but I realized that if I could offer up doll X, then I should probably just sell them anyway to pave the way for more dream dolls anyway.

[Evelien]

Yeah.. that's exactly how I feel.. If I'd rather have other dolls, doesn't that mean something..?

I'll be doing a new faceup on my girls within about half an hour though. Just letting the first layer of MSC dry as we speak.

[Lamia of the Dark]

OK, here's a weird thing...

I hate Nerisa. I freaking HATE her. ALL of the other dolliehs hate her. (Not just the ones who are actually from her storyline, ALL of them.)

But she's a character that I created to be hated and I could never get rid of her.

[magkelly]

I only sell the dolls I'm not really into. Like dolls that came with other dolls in a lot that I bought the whole thing just to get that one doll, that kind of thing. I rarely if ever sell anything I really love. I love my dolls or I wouldn't be buying them in the first place. I'm very, very picky at this point about what dolls come here to live. I do get tired of certain dolls for a while but I just box them up and get back to them later. Since I don't have room to display all my dolls anyhow rotation is a necessary evil. There are certain dolls that always stay out and there are dolls that I rotate in and out all the time.

My MS kids and my Bratz haven't seen the light of day in a while, nor have my Tonner boys. That's something I am going to be working on after the first of the year once I get this gripe thing under control. The MS kids and the Bratz deserve some shelf time. Now that I am into sewing I really want to take my big boys out. They never did get proper clothes and I want to try making them some nice shirts, pants and stuff. I'm always making stuff for my girls and the guys deserve some too.

[Evelien]

I made up my mind... I am selling Sosha and Eva. ASAP. I redid Sosha's faceup and I have to say she looks better now, but I'm now 100% sure that I prefer resin to vinyl so much that I want to sell my Obitsu girls to be able to buy a new resin girl. I took Eva's faceup off and I couldn't manage to do a new one on her for some reason. It just... I don't know. It didn't work out somehow.

Anyone interested in two 60cm ball jointed model Obitsu girl bodies..? Hehe.
I'll post a sales topic once I've taken some pictures.