Introduce yourselves!

[Hitasura]

This may be a brand new forum, but we're hoping that well be seeing a lot of familiar faces out there and to meet plenty of new ones! New or old to the hobby or community, please let us know a little bit about yourselves in this thread so everyone can get to know each other a little better! ^_^

Some possible things to answer:

- What's your real name?
- What's your occupation?
- How long have you been collectiing BJDs?
- What dolls do you own?
- What's your favorite aspect of the BJD hobby?
- Anything else you feel like telling us!

As for me, my real name is Leigh- you can find me as Hitasura on just about every other forum/LJ/etc out there though. I'm a 26 year-old Art major who got drug into by my friend Rhian about three years ago. I loved how customizable they were and soon couldn't resist the urge to turn the main characters from my webcomic (Schism) into dolls. I love sewing and creating outfits for them as well as modding and painting them (though I'm not quite as good as many out there!) XD

I hope that everyone enjoys the new forum! =D

[Merry]

Hello!

I'm Merry...aka Sandi aka bunny13 on DoA (where I very rarely go) and bunnythe13th on LJ. I'm thirty....um...something... and I am an artist and craftsperson living with my husband, a grumpy Basenji and several dolls in Redmond, WA (aka Microsoftland).

Check out my sig for dolls owned and I've also filled out a bit in my profile section if you're really that curious about me. ;D

The site looks wonderful so far and I look forward to seeing it grow!

[Em]

Hi All,

I'm Em (obviously!) I'm 25, shortly to be 26 and currently working for a Legal Publishing firm (oh the excitement!).

I stumbled across some pics of BJD online late in '03, fell madly in love with them! In the desperate search for any english websites I found Cass's Briah, harassed her through email until she invited me over to meet her boys and the rest is history!

I currently own 5 dolls (with 2 on their way)

Raiden - Volks BW F16
Cian - CP Woosoo
Danae - Volks Emma
Hinote - Volks Yo-sd Anne
Kageru - Bambicrony Slate Grey Elf Pepe

I also ordered a Sist & Lusis in the last Unoa order

My favourite aspects of the BJD hobby is the chance to bring my characters 'to life' and the AWESOME friends I've made through this hobby.

I'm pretty much a lurker in most communities but I'm going to try and make an effort to be more active here

[harolink]

Greetings~!

I'm your typical forum lurker just introducing herself to the new crowd. I'm also on DoA as Harolink and I'm looking forward to watching this forum grow~. My introduction into this hobby occurred fairly recently (February 2007 I think) after I had a chance to meet my friend's gorgeous Kurumi she had just received. After that...everything spiraled into pure enthusiasm for these exquisite dolls and now I currently own 5 dolls.

In the order I got them:
Hyder (SDC Arashi)
Pyce (DOT H Ducan)
Harley (Pipos Baha)
Alice (SDC Kaede)
Adeleine (SDC SWTD Kaede)

Their faces are definitely a welcome distraction when I'm exhausted or stressed after a full day's work (I'm an engineer). I really love admiring the quality and craftsmanship of these dolls and their unlimited customizability keeps my mind spinning with creative ideas I hope to make a reality some day in the future.

[Testy]

Hello! I am a Test account. You may see me post occasionally to test things. Please pay me no mind. (^_^;

[Annika]

Hi!

My name is Annika (duh), but you might know me as mutedhitokiri from LJ. I found out about BJDs totally by accident in late 2004, through a My Little Pony forum. I thought they were just too beautiful for words, and since then, I have become irrevocably obsessed. I now own way too many of the little buggers, since they offer such a wonderful opportunity to see my characters elsewhere than in my head (I can't draw worth anything).

[Seiko]

Hi, I'm Seiko (seiko on DoA, rawr). I'm 20 and currently a physics/pre-med major at university. My favorite thing to do is sleep e_e.

I've owned a BJD since 2005 (Hitasura's fault), but only have seriously been part of the hobby since later summer 2006. I own 6 dolls based on preexisting characters from a novel I'm working on.

I like taking pictures of the dolls, buying stuff for them, and I make doll jewelry (sort of) XD;

I look forward to getting to know a lot of people on the forum. ^^

[Nikittin]

Hello all, my name is Nicky. I am nikittin on both DoA and LJ.

I've been a BJD enthusiast since late 2004. It's been a wonderful time and I've met a lot of cool people.

It's good to be here. I'm really happy to meet you, Resinality members!

[zalem]

Zalem on both LJ and DoA.
aka - rin

I'm a 29 year-old law school student from New York City. Been collecting BJDs since 2002. My favorite BJD companies are Volks, Cerberus Project, and Alchemic Lab. Also a huge anime, manga, jrock and video game fan.

Dolls that I currently own:
Kiryuu (CP El)
Mizuha (Madoka)
Hizaki (MSD Hewitt)
Lakshata (Nanuri 07)

Very happy to be here and I look forward to seeing this community grow.

[gothiclibrarian]

gothiclibrarian on DoA/LJ...Anika in real life

I'm 30 years old and live in Indianapolis, Indiana. I'm a librarian. I love Indian food. I like to garden (especially roses).

Was introduced to ABJD in 2002 when surfing the net for Blythe and Jenny photos. I happened upon Helene's site and fell in love with her Kyon-painted 4-Sisters now known as Clelie.

About 4 months later I had brought my first doll home.

I have had a lot of change in my doll family over the years but feel that after some degree of trial and error I've got the perfect group for me.

Alinor: Volks SD Masha
Beatrice: Volks Yo-Tenshi Kasumi
Félicité: NotDoll Nari-Pon Periwinkle
Georgianna: Volks FCS MSD F-16
Gillianne: School C SD-13
Henrietta: Volks Carol on SD-13 body
Honorine: NotDoll Nari-Pon Daisy
Ioan: Volks FCS SD-13 F-16 (Originally F-28 in April '03)
Maxine: LatiDoll Yellow Benny
Perdita: Volks Yo-SD Lin
Phillippa: Volks FCS SDG F-27
Roselynde: Volks SD Sasha
Theodora: Volks Yo-Tenshi Yuh
Winifred: Volks MSD Lilith

And an Alice Cherry Blossom by ElfDoll on the way.

I am very excited about some of the features on this new forum. The tags and Wiki are especially brilliant!

Hope to see this group grow

[Sakura]

I have a lot of SNs so I'll just suffice it to say that I'm ariaflight on LJ and Suzuka on DoA I'm 28 and staying that way from now on, though I will celebrate a deathday or two and have had dollies since Spring of 2005 but I'm also into cosplay and performing once in a while.

I have eight dollies which I am quite shocked and scared at myself over and one more on the way ^^ I SERIOUSLY need to stop getting any more. Heehee!

My resin kids are:
Elisabeth (Jun T)
Kimihiro (Shiro T)
Sakura (Midori 2)
Syaoran (Hewitt 2)
Alexandria (Mai)
Victoria (Anais 2)
Suzie (Suzuna)
Shinichi (Shinn)

I pray for no more and turn a blind eye to all the uncoming dolls.

Nice to meet you all!

[Lone Sheep]

Hello! My name is Emily, but I use "lone sheep" everywhere online. You can call me "Emily" or "Sheep"~ I don't care. Nice to meet you!

I'm 22 (for another month), still going to college in Virginia. I just quit my job of five years managing a pizza place and am currently just focusing on finishing my degree. (Majoring in graphic design, minor in business.)

I can't remember how long it's been since I started collecting BJDs. Less long than Hitasura, since she introduced me. ^^

It's weird... I guess I have six-ish dolls now. One is only a head though.

Luc - Elysium Hugo
Valerie - DOT Shall
Knox - Elfdoll K-SS
Wren - MSD Enn
Kite - Reitenshi
Wade - Leeke Hero

I absolutely love photography, so that's my favorite thing about the hobby.

I like the new forum look. I'm always open to making new friends, so I hope I can get to know a few of you.

[demitasse]

Well, let's see. I'm Boots, often called demitasse on forums. I'm a full-time studio art student, which is a fancy way of saying I draw feathers. Lots of feathers. In large scale. For three and four hours at a time. I first ran across BJDs in...uh. I don't remember. But I still have my copy of Hobby Japan with that very first Volks ad in it! They only had three girls!

I got my first doll in 2004, and have been hooked ever since.

Right now I've got:
Myx - Elfdoll Red
Ffamran - CP Moon

If I'm lucky, I'll be able to add a Volks Emma and a Pipos Curo to that soonish.

...These emoticons are gonna be my undoing, I know it.

[Rhian]

Hello! My real-and-online name is Rhian, and I am responsible for dragging Leigh into the hobby... I am a dilettante in her 20s who is trying to improve herself and cut down on her tea consumption.

I've been in the hobby since early 2003. (I ordered my first late that year, and he arrived in early 2004.) I love doll photography, but my real passion is sewing and knitting on a dolly scale.

I own:
- Sadame, a Volks old FCS F28 SD13 boy
- Zuzu, a Unoa 1.0 Lusis with the "large milk part" option

Nice to meet you all!

[Bel]

Hi, all!

I'm Bel (the_impassive on DoA and Lj) and excited to be here! I fell for BJDs in the summer of '05, brought my first (and second, sigh) home shortly after New Year's '06 - look, it's not my fault that by the time Tensiya shipped my first, I'd saved enough for my second!

I'm 34, have worked as an administrator at an art college for ten years, and write horror fiction from time to time. When not playing with dolls, I'm making doll jewelry (as Resin Ragdoll), trying to learn to play cello, goofing off with my German Shepherds, and seeking out good (and bad) movies from Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan.

I was an action figure person, not a doll person, but now I'm fast approaching "scary doll lady" status. (My list of dolls is in my profile!) I'd be just as happy with my gang if I knew no one else with BJDs, but a completely unexpected side effect of my falling for these dolls is that I've met some damn good people. Who knew?!

I now own both of my grail dolls, all of my dream dolls, and some surprise love-at-first-sight dolls. I'm lucky, lucky, lucky.

I'm looking forward to hanging out here!

[Karhys]

Hi, I'm Cassiel, and I'm bad at introductions? XD

I'm Cassiel both in real life and pretty much anywhere on the net, except for on the occasions when 'Cassiel' is taken, at which point I go by 'kyashieru', which is my name in katakana'ed Japanese.

I'm a 5th year Uni student majoring in Japanese language, hoping to be a translator when I graduate. (Which, with luck, ought to be at the end of this semester! *prays to pass everything*)

I got into the BJD scene back in 2001, when Volks was the only company making dolls, and all of them were girls. I didn't get my first doll till September, 2002, but we ordered the second before the first came home. I think that seems to happen a lot in this hobby, heh!

My dolls are all in my profile and my sig (such a long list is too embarassing to spell out so plainly here!) but I largely love Volks boys. I don't have any girls yet and no real plans to. I just find boys way more appealing, for whatever reason. XD (As a writer, this reflects that all my story characters are male too. I just find myself distanced from and unable to connect with female characters. Go figure.)

I love the customization and creativity that is the initial foundation of this hobby; the idea that you can do whatever you like to your doll and make it truly and completely your own, unlike anyone else's.

I also love the friends that I have made through this hobby. It sometimes seems odd to me that I have made such good friends when our only feature in common is our love of dolls, but the fact remains that some of my closest and most trusted and beloved friends are the ones I found through dolls. So I am eminently grateful to my boys for giving me that, amongst all the other joys they give me.

And I hope to make many more friends here on Resinality, yay!

[Loki]

Hey all! It's nice reading about some of you guys that I didn't know so much about before. ^_^

I'm Loki, I'm 23 and currently doing my Masters of Commerce (oooh) at Uni, while also attempting to study Japanese.

I can't recall exactly when I saw my first BJD picture, an online friend showed me her HappyDoll - I think he must have been an Arthur. She then later on linked me to the Volks website, and DP9 must have been going on, or just finished, because Shiro was plastered all over the front page, and I fell in love. XD I then went tripping about the net and found Cassiel's site, and it all went downhill from there.

I currently have 11 dolls... ^^; I'm hoping I'll stop now, because it's a far cry from the 'Just two' I had imagined I would have when I bought Kitori (my first doll). Kitori came home mid 2004.

I really enjoy this hobby and all the people I've met through it. I hope to make more here! ♥~

[nikita]

What's your real name JoAnn
What's your occupation? Ugh
How long have you been collecting BJDs? Since 2002
What dolls do you own? Volks sd13 Nana (oldskin), Volks msd Myu (oldskin), Volks optional F-4 (oldskin)
What's your favorite aspect of the BJD hobby? Taking pics of them!
Anything else you feel like telling us! Yeah,...please be patient with our new site as its in the newborn stage!

[Mid]

As always, I want to play with the cool kids.

Hello, I'm Mid! I'm a 22 year old professional web monkey in the good ol' South Shore of Nova Scotia. Aaaaand if I continue this line, it'll sound like I'm looking for a date.

I've been collecting BJD since 2005. I currently have five, all from some random story idea of had a few years back (but, honestly, the story got lost somewhere and never found it's way home).

My crew:
Gabby D'Angelo [F-17]
Ix Navy [School A]
Bit [Suzuna]
Sol Holloway [F-16]
Aves Belmont [School C]

My favourite thing about this hobby is the creative process. I love to see what people imagine with these dolls.

The forum looks amazing!

[AnimeDoll]

My name is Olivia and I've been in the hobby since October 2005.

I really like the hobby and it's fun to shop for my 'kids!' The best part is finding items for my dolls when shopping and getting new clothes for them. The worst part of the hobby is not having enough money and not having enough time to play with them.

I live in American Canyon, CA where I attend pharmacy school. My hobbies include (besides ABJD), sushi, shopping, cosplay, anime, cel-collecting, Neopets, and surfing ebay.

My doll family from newest addition:

Sabiki Scye - SOOM Sabik Cyborg
Lai Fa - DIM Minimee
Sunako - Limwha Human
Cailin - DoT Ducan
Kaiya - PF Fei
Cloud - SD Shiro Tachibana
Sesshoumaru - F16
Hinoto - SD10 Megu