In celebration of Miss Charlotte’s Birthday, I thought I would do a link carousel on Dolls. Ball Jointed Dolls, also referred to as BJDs or Dollfies are jointed posable dolls made of a type of hard resin that form a popular hobby in Japan and Asia, and now there are doll collectors all over the world. It is certainly not a cheap hobby, your average doll ranging between $300 and $700 USD, but it is one in which collectors can express a great deal of creativity, doing everything from making clothes and wigs to painting faces and modifying the resin themselves!
Miss Charlotte is a Volks MSD FCS f-06 Snow Skin. To translate that, Volks is the company that made her, she is ‘Mini Super Dollfie’ sized which is about 43cm, purchased from Volk’s ‘Full Choice System’ which allows you to choose every aspect of the doll seperately and her head mold (or sculpt) is number f-06. She also has very white skin that volks calls ‘Snow Skin.’
VOLKS International
This is the english language home page for Volks, my favourite BJD company. They are based in Japan and are probably the most popular company in that nation, they have been around for a long time and are considered to be the originators of Asian Ball Jointed dolls, although they certainly took a lot of inspirations from existing hobbies and traditional dolls. I like Volks for their beautiful sculpts (heads) which vary in style from cute and anime-inspired to more realistic. They’ve just had their 10th Anniversary for the Super Dollfie aswell!
Doll Heart
Doll Heart make beautiful clothes, shoes and accessories for Ball Jointed Dolls. They are based in Hong Kong and run regular design competitions where doll owners can submit their own outfit designs and some are chosen to be made in to real outfits! Miss Charlotte has quite a few outfits and shoes from here, so she thoroughly reccomends them!
Japanese Doll Sites
I love browsing japanese doll owner sites, there are some beautiful photos, gorgeous clothes and face-ups (makeup/paint on faces.) Here are a few of my favourites: Sejour des Merveilles, Recollections, Vertus Maria, Robin’s Egg, Un Crossiant, KOREAN: The Silhouette, Chez Masha
Den of Angels Forums
The largest and longest running english language BJD forums. Den of Angels is a great resource for anything you could want to know about dolls. You will be able to find photos of dolls from all over the world, browse a marketplace of people selling dolls and accessories and learn all about the hobby.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Aw, happy birthday, Miss Charlotte! My F-06, Kana, sends you a wave and a hug.^_^
Princess Skye, thank you so much for friending me. I am very much enjoying your posts on your other identity and just wish that I had more time to comment.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Happy birthday Miss Charlotte ^^~
April 24th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Happy Birthday, Miss Charlotte! ; )
April 24th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Also form me a happy birthday :)
I think I just fell in love with those dolls. Misfortunately, they’re all terribly expensive and I already have myself to dress up. But they are all so beautiful! I have always wondered where Miss Charlotte came from, and I am glad I know it now.
May I just ask how old Miss Charlotte became? :3 Anyhow, I wish you both a lot of luck!
April 24th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Happy Birthday Miss Charlotte :)
Thank you so much for this Link Carousel!
I love BJD’s and got one recently, too.
(Luts, Kid Delf Cherry Girl, Normal Skin)
I named her Yume ^^ she’s so cute!
I’ve been wondering since a while where you got all the pretty dresses for Miss Charlotte! I especially like the red polka dot one!
Thanks for the recommendation of dollheart.com *^^* they have such lovely things!
April 25th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Happy Birthday, Miss Charlotte! ♥
April 25th, 2008 at 2:08 am
That’s so awesome: You and I almost share a birthday, Miss Charlotte! (except mine’s tomorrow) :D Happy Birthday!
April 25th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Happy Birthday Miss Charlotte! Also from my ABJD; Raine. Raine is a White skin Sleepin Soony Mod (from eLuts).
I had to give my greetings from Raine, and Raine loves the dresses Miss Charlotte always wears! So hereby a compliment from Raine! ;)
April 25th, 2008 at 4:40 am
Happy Birthday,Miss Charlotte.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:03 am
My two MSD-girls Adelé (SoulDoll’s Soulkid Katie) and Martina (AngelRegion’s Little Fair Ami) wish Miss Charlotte a happy birthday!
I really love all the clothes you have for Miss Charlotte. ♥ I wish I had the patience to sew or even save money to buy new stuff for my girls. I always feel that they’re horribly underdressed whenever we go to a meetup…
April 25th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Happy birthday, Miss Charlotte! Henrietta sends you her dearest wishes, and she makes me tell you that she envies you for your beautiful wardrobe ;)
April 25th, 2008 at 6:30 am
Happy Birthday Miss Charlotte! I hope you had a great birthday and lots of love and presents! Your clothes are so pretty~! And so are your owners! ^o^
April 25th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Happy, happy Birthday Miss Charlotte, and hopefully may a thousand more come ^_^
I am thinking of buying a BJD, from Volks =P I promise I’m not trying to be a copy-cat!!! Luckily for me mostly, yen to our currency is more expensive so.. the dolls are prety much as expensive as a skirt =D Which makes me happy
April 25th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Luckily for my wallet, I never much got into the doll thing. Actually, I used to be terrified of dolls when I was a child. They still tend to frighten me somewhat.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Dollfies are beautiful! Happy Birthday to you.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Miss Charlotte says ‘Thank you!’ for all the birthday wishes!
Waterbee - Miss C is eternally 8 yrs old, but by people years she turned 2!
June 1st, 2008 at 7:38 am
Hello! Thanks for mentioning my site, Séjour des Merveilles, as one of your favourites :D, but it isn’t Japanese (I just try not forgetting the little I know) it’s Spanish. I will surely have a look at the rest of the links!