Hello! \o/

Hi, I'm Dorian or Desmond (you can call me Des if you want, either name is fine). I use he/him pronouns only. I live in the US, in New Jersey.

I'm new to the doll hobby, so I'm just kind of sticking my toes in for right now. I bought one vinyl doll (1/6 Imomodoll Guru) secondhand and I'm in love... He has no eyes face or clothes yet but, I'm in love.

I'm interested in learning how to do face-ups and learning more about how stuff works. I sew and mostly make plushies (and clothes/accessories for plushies) and want to try making cute outfits for dolls... I also knit and crochet but I never learned how to crochet "the right way" so I need to relearn that. I'm a hobbyist visual artist but I mostly just doodle for fun rather than making big finished pieces. I like making things! And looking at cool things people have made! I'm very socially anxious so I have a hard time talking to people on forums, but I never mind getting messages or feedback or anything. 😄

Nice to meet you!

 

Nice to meet you. I'm also a guy who collects dolls. There are quite a lot of us. I watched a documentary about Volks and most of their customers were guys my age.

I have huge anxiety but working as a teacher (with up to 50 students) helped a lot.

Towa was my first (photo below). I wanted a doll for a while and though I'd get a Miku one but there weren't any Miku's available at the time so I went for DDdy Towa. She arrived during covid and got me though a very difficult couple of years.

I can highly recommend the larger vinyl dolls as they are very lifelike and have their own personalities. My sister in law has Blythes and smaller dolls but she was almost in tears at the sight of Towa! Just imagine if she ever saw my SD Mytyl.

I think every one has at least one doll that they fell in love with.  Or that was the reason they have a hoard LOL, anyways nice to meet you ^,^