Dollieh Sanctuary

Hey everybody,

I took some time tonight and did something I wasn't sure I'd ever do; I took my Jin action figure out of his box. I checked out his swords (and was pretty impressed with them), checked his joints (right arm seems a little on the loose side), fixed his clothes by making him an obi and retying his hakama because they were really bugging me, figuring out how his articulated eyes worked, just really got to know him. I even took a few photos that I'll be posting a bit later. Anyway, when I was finished, I got to thinking: I don't want the light to get to him, but I don't want to stick him back in his original box, either. There's a LOT of packing involved with it. So I was wondering how everybody else stored their dolls? Do you keep them in ventilated containers? Do you leave them on display? Please discuss!

*Edit* If anyone is wondering, he's the new Otaku 2 body type and his articulation reminds me quite a bit of many of the dolls I've seen here.

I was thinking about this yesterday too.. I was trolling DoA and noticed quite few people selling dolls, noting that they weren't really playing with the doll and the doll had just stayed in the box... Even if I am not playing with my dolls, shotting pictures, what have you... They are still up on display on shelves in my office. This way, even if I don;t have time to do anything with them, I can still look at them. Plus they make great drawing references.

The core group of Littles are in the dollhouse, sometimes properly on the furniture, sometimes laying on the cluttered floor where I last left them. The Power Team Elite are in 3 doll holders I made and have no wall space to hang them on. The supporting Littles are in two Barbie over the door holders on the doors of my built in cabinets, other Kens are in a holder on a hangar I made years ago, some are in a wheeled Barbie holder, Skippers, Stacies, and Kellys in drawers, Jenny and friends in a drawer, the headless bodies in a drawer. Roger on top of the drawers, more dolls on top of the dollhouse, the action figures in a storage tub in the closet, Bratz in the Bratz case, Sailor Moon, I think the Dawn Dolls and similar size in a hat box, Juku Couture in an old doll holder, the Teeny Tiny Timelords in the Duck Tape TARDIS, the finished heads in the Head Cabinet, unfinished ones on a spool wrack, Spider-Man figures in the Spider-Man case, Shran the Andorian still MIP, Bratz Geisha in her box, John Lennon and his harem of Geisha on top of a shelf, the drum majors on top of another shelf, the unfinished matrushka dolls next to them, the reborn babies in a basket in the closet, Gene and company in the top of the closet, the resins in a stroller, and Shi Shi laying on top of the PTE pile.

She who has the Little Encyclopedia must store the Little Encyclopedia. But I wouldn't mind someone coming over to hep me play dolls and get them organized better.

DollyKim wrote: the reborn babies in a basket in the closet

That's gonna give somebody a bit of a wheeze one day, if they are peeking in closets, no?

My dolls have their own shelf they sit on, a permanent display (that needs a cleaning and a tidy in the worst way! maybe this afternoon...::hopes::). I don't worry much about the light - our living room gets little direct sunlight, the windows are always covered and it's dark here 24/7 thru much of the winter. I think yellowing is part of the natural life-cycle of the materials our dolls are made from, and a doll that has spent it's time shut up in a box is a sorrowful thing.

Besides, I can't get over the idea of when a doll is in a box, it 'can't breathe'

My boys outgrew their shelf (odd that they haven't given it back to me though) and now have one of those wire stacking cube units. They have 'rooms', Nagi and Riou at the top reclining on Nagi's futon, Momiji under them with his pink & chocolate color scheme, and Touda has taken over what would have been Riou's room for himself and the Toothless toy that he claimed as a pet. The bottom is storage.

I couldn't imagine leaving them in a box and not doing anything with them. They are always out (keep in mind, there is almost no direct sunlight in the loft so that danger is removed), and go to school with me at least once a week. There they are constantly loved, toted around and held by a half dozen TRUSTED students.

I have a cabinet with glass doors that I put my dollies in so I can look at them!

The older smaller retired action figures are now in their display cases after I got tired of dusting them. I need to get something similar for the medium size folks. A number of action figure suffered articulation wear and tear T_T
My dolls are on my computer table taking up space and ignoring safety rules about not sitting at the edge of the table shelf and risk falling smack into my coffee

Yeah, I kind of thought it would be too sad to leave them boxed-up in my closet, so they're all on my desk! XD I wanted to see what the general consensus was, and I'm glad to know I'm not alone here.

What part of Cali are you in, Kim? I'm in SoCal. If you aren't too far, we should meet somewhere!

Gotta love Walmart. Just bought a put-together-yourself floor-to-almost-ceiling bookcase for $25. I've got half my dolls sitting on the shelves of one of them, and the other half sitting on the shelves of another (along with waaay too many notebooks and computer supplies). I love these cases. For being so inexpensive they're pretty sturdy, and you can adjust the shelves to varying heights, so all the dolls have some place to go.

Now I just gotta find a spot for my Inuyasha plushie, once I straighten out his hair and reglue his furry ears, since they seem to be falling off. At least his nails are still firmly attached (sharp little buggers they are, too).

MidoriKurogami wrote:What part of Cali are you in, Kim? I'm in SoCal. If you aren't too far, we should meet somewhere!

I'm out in the Inland Empire but I can travel a bit.