Collecting since 2009, prior to that was more interested in art dolls & art toy figures.

In the mid-90s to mid 2000s I used to make mini jointed bears & attended various doll & bear fairs. That's how I came across my first contemporary collectable  ball jointed dolls as opposed to ball jointed art dolls. I wasn't really interested in the hobby in those early days but when I stumbled across it again in the late 2000s things had changed & suddenly I was in love.