How did you find porcelain dolls?

My friend Annika was the one who introduced me to the porcelain Enchanted Dolls. This was back in 2009 and she had just ordered her dolls. At first, I wasn't very interested but once I saw how well they posed, I fell in love.

It's thanks to the ED and Flickr community that I learned more about porcelain dolls and their talented makers.

In my case it was Biscuit Bear who posted a link to Enchanted Dolls on the Resinality forum back in the day. I remember thinking they were cool but not quite 'clicking' with them at the time, but something drew me back to Marina's site almost a year later and I fell hard. I even travelled to Paris to see her at a tiny doll and bear show, but unfortunately by then she had stopped taking custom orders, so it took quite some time before my dreams of owning her work could be fulfilled. Many hours were spent poring over her site and trying to decide what I would want if I ever got the chance, time well spent if you ask me! ^^

Aww that's so cool that you were introduced to them via my photo, Allurose, it warms my heart!

I unfortunately can't remember who mentioned it or in which thread, but someone mentioned Enchanted Dolls on Den of Angels and I felt this inexplicable pull and checked the enchanteddoll.com site and I was done. I specifically remember being on the site and on Chad's flickr for days, just gazing at these amazing dolls.

So cool to read everyone's story!

I don't remember how I found Enchanted Dolls, but they were my introduction to the bjd world entirely. After looking around and seeing a lot of resin dolls, and anime type aesthetics, I realized that what Marina did was on a higher level artistically. This was in 2008. I tagged her website, and have been looking at it nearly daily ever since then.

Oh yes, I remember thinking that too. /gives past self a smack

I first saw ED's years and years ago, I must have been looking at the old web site for about 2 years and then saw on ZOZ that Biscuitbear had bought one. I immediately got on the list and about 4 months later my turn came up. Marina offered me the choice of 1 or 2 dolls. Thinking I could always get another and since 1,000 dollars seemed high for a doll I opted for just one. I kick myself everytime I tell this story. But I got my doll in about a month or 2 was floored by her and asked to be put on the list for another. Well they had taken off by then, and I never got that second doll. LOL.
Anyway I have to say I have never liked a doll I owned as much as my ED, and if I had purchased 2- I probably would not have loved the one so much. I did get to purchase 2 resins and share them with my doll friend down the road.
I am so happy there are more and more dolls of this nature popping up.

My first exposure to BJD's was on an evening when my ex-husband and I were on a date at the bookstore. I saw Marina B's Enchanted Dolls on a magazine cover(Haute Doll, 2009ish?) , and out of curiosity picked it up. I took the magazine and took it to show him- we were both blown away. I had never seen a doll that I actually liked and wanted to have. My mother was a doll collector when I was a child, and my association with dolls was boring trips to flea markets and antique shops, sometimes dolls shows, and also little heads, wigs, arms, and doll shoes in every nook and cranny of our house. I did try to make a few little dolls in college as means to illustrate stories. (Wendy Froud's book, A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, was a previous "wow" moment for me, seeing dolls used for illustration).

By the time I saw Marina's website and the Enchanted Forum, her work had already taken off and dolls were difficult to get. It took me a year or so I think to decide to try making my own. AT the time I had never been on a forum, had never posted anything anywhere on the internet, never posted photos anywhere besides ebay. So this whole "doll thing" I'll call it affectionately, changed my interaction with the world in general, and I'm happy to have gotten to know people from all around the world through the Enchanted Forum.