How do your play (or spend time) with your dolls?

I like to pose my dolls and take photoshoots with them. I also enjoy redressing them, playing around with eyes, and wigs. And sometimes I just like to stare at my dolls and admire them!

She's still a new arrival, so only time will tell how I spend time with her in the future. But for now, I like having my Millicent sit at my desk with me when I'm home, like a little desk companion. Though I also enjoy brushing her hair and taking photos of her.

I think I spend more time dressing up my dolls and styling their wig than taking photos with them.

For a certain mix and match outfit might take longer time, as I also very particular with the small accessories and hairstyle to fit as a whole theme when comes to making a concept shoot. 

There's a time I spent whole day 5-8 hours styling a wig but I wasn't satisfy with it and dumped the whole wig instead.

Sometimes I also spend hours modify or making small accessories like necklace, earrings, hairclips to match with their outfit. 

Before I took my dolls out for photography, I'll also do pose practice for the dolls before hand to make sure the posture are workable. 

Also I will setup my own diorama/backdrop for photoshoot if I'm doing indoor shoot at home, usually takes like half day or whole day setting up the scene.

Lastly comes to photography will be around 1-3 hours depends on the location. (eg. stay max around 2 hours for cafe, aim for golden hour sunset only 1 hour on certain location) 
For indoor photography sometimes I shoot for 1-5 days slowly leaving my dolls and backdrop on the same spot for entire week.

Its actually like long pre-preparation process for a cosplayer before they turns up in convention and finally gets their photo taken in the end, as I was a cosplayer myself. 😂

Edited March 2 by SFSakana

We've had a bit of a dressup session this week.

I'd love to take this pair to an anime convention but I'd be petrified of Rin's barrettes falling off.

On 2/16/2024 at 4:50 PM, pericat said:

I seriously need someone to make a Tinder for dolls because it would be so fun for our dolls to be able to make international friends!

I got ya

My favourite typically stands or seats with me at my desk so when I am frustrated I have something pretty to look at or sometimes comb or stroke her hair.

Other times some of my dolls may participate in rallies and protests when my IRL girls are naughty or refuse to do their school work lol.

My dolls and my day job have collided 🤓.

Ciel's prototype below is now being made into an actual thing for doll owners.

Uzuki's been at my desk all week while we construct the alpha version.

For now, I mostly just... prop them up on the couch to watch TV/YouTube with me, lol. However, I'm currently in the the early phases of making a "dollsplay" for Ludo so I can take her to Youmacon this year. I'm doing a simple Jun cosplay, so I'm making a Shinku dress for her!

@Giallo_Gatta that sounds like such a cute cosplan!  I know Rozen Maiden isn't the -it- series anymore, but I love seeing it around still 💗

Hmm, for me, I guess it depends? Sometimes I'm very involved with things like fussing with wigs (I think every one of mine has sat through a trimming session and covered me in doll hair) to clean up ends or totally change the length and framing of the cut, dressing (I love to collect clothes for them and switch up at least one or two a week, and misc stuff (crafting or handsewing when my joints allow, snapping a random photo because they look cute, etc), or jotting down character info because I like to imagine their little world and how they'd all interact. 

Other times I'm just tired or focused on other hobbies, so they're just vibing with me - I'll pop one or two on my nightstand to have them nearby while I'm watching shows or reading, and rotate where the others are in the room just to keep things fresh so I can enjoy looking at them.

I'm not especially deep into photography or crafting (wish I had the time and skills though, y'all are amazing!), and I don't really take my dolls out anymore, so I "play" more on the consumer/lazy end of enjoyment haha.  I just enjoy curating and gazing adoringly on my gaggle of plastic children.

@mmmuguet Thank you! I know it's not super popular anymore, but I figured it was big enough at one point that we'd still be recognized. It's an important show to me, too 💝