Recently, I’ve found myself redressing and playing with the dolls I have rather than kept on buying new ones in. A friend of hubby’s told us today that the desire of getting what you want and yet still yearning for more is human nature; it is a mean of survival instinct. If this is the case, then I guess I have found a good reason to back me up on all these years of mad dolly purchases (hooray!).

Of course, the redressing and replaying part falls more on my Blythe dolls than BJDs (ball jointed dolls). I still feel the need of wanting new tiny BJDs but at least not for Blythe. I do love my Blythe so not wanting to buy any more new ones doesn’t mean I don’t love them anymore. The ‘prettier’ or shall I say the more ‘rational’ way of explaining my behavior of redressing my old dolls is simply appreciation; to appreciate what I already have and own. The more ‘true’ way of looking at it is, well, I lack the funds. Yup...it is as simple as that.

After enjoying the dolls I have and playing with them again, the love I have for them in the first place came right back. I am happy and feel lucky to have these dolls with me even though at times I am so busy sewing that I don’t have any spare time to set aside for my dolls. I am trying to change that slowly. Right now, I divide my days into three parts. I would sew, exercise and set time aside to play with dolls. I use the daytime to sew until 11pm and then I will try to exercise at least 30 minutes. I know 30 minutes isn’t much but it is better than zero exercise I did in the past. The last hour or so of my day I will pick a doll up from my dolly shelf and just enjoy her. This arrangement is working for me so far and hopefully it will continue being so.