30 Day BJD Challenge - Day 11

11) How long have you collected dolls? Did you collect dolls before BJDs? 

I'm a newbie in the BJD-hobby, my dolls have arrived in December 2014. (Gloria's head was given to me on the 13th of December, and Lamia arrived on the 18th, exactly. However, I ordered him on the 15th of August.) As for other dolls...

I've been collecting dolls since I was 10. =D Porcelain dolls, I mean. Actually I made my mother buy my first porcelain doll when I was at the age of 3 or 4, but I consider myself a collector since I was 10 years old. (And it was only a matter of time to decide to purchase my first - then my second xD - BJD. =3) Currently I own 16 dolls with various heights and from various places - my aim was to purchase a doll in every country where I travelled on a holiday. Here they are: 

They are the smaller ones - my fist doll, Mary is the one in the purple dress, the second one from the right. I saw her in a store at a Greek airport - I don't remember where - and I begged my mother and refused to go out of the store until my parents bought her for me. (I must admit that I was a really spoiled kid - and actually, I am. xD)
The others are (from left to right without Mary) Michelle, Heidi, Millefeuille, Sophie and Erzsébet (Elisabeth in Hungarian).

They are the bigger ones, from left to right: Olga, Nicky, Claudia, Victoria, Niké, Alice, Charlotte, Emily and Catherine.

And she is the newest one, I bought her in Vienna in December, when I went on a one-day Advent-Market trip with my friend, Kishi. =) I told her that I won't go home without a doll, so we walked through the quarter of the city to find a shop. xD But we found it, and this cutie came home with me; her name is Namiren (I named her after our local BJD-artist Namiren, because this doll reminds me of her, and I really appreciate her work also. ^^) 

Sooo, I guess that's all for now.