Family Portraits - Fav Photos 2025

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This album covers all my contemporary families and groups

Owen and Leona's Family

Owen and Leona, and their four children, from the left: Lonnie, Coco, Holly, and Milo.

They were the very first of all my doll families. Up until then I had just been focussing on my smaller BIDs and KIDs as contemporary children, and all the MSD size dolls I had at the time were unrelated Fantasy characters. But when I purchased Leona on the secondary market, her previous owner sent her with a contemporary outfit, and she became the first JID to appear in photos as a contemporary woman with all the children. She immediately caught the attention of Owen, who had been a Medieval Fantasy guy up until then. The two of them became parents to Lonnie, Coco and Holly, and then I ordered Milo to complete their family.

They have travelled extensively across the country, all the way west through the Rockies...

... to Vancouver Island, in their Trip to the Pacific, 2015

They have also travelled all the way east to Newfoundland, both as a contemporary family...
in A Road Trip to Newfoundland

..and as a rugged Fantasy family with Winston...In the Land of Icebergs

Their family has also explored the US Southwest....in Desert Adventures 2016

But they are first and foremost a contemporary family...

Steve and Iris' Family

Steve is Owen's brother, and Iris is Leona's sister. They originally had three children. Their family started out in contemporary times.
From the left: Lisa, Eric, Iris, Steve, and Nyssa

...but after discovering their old wardrobe could send them into the past, they decided to go back to a much quieter era to Victorian times, where they had their fourth child, little Sena. The family actually lives in the same house as Owen and Leona, but a hundred and fifty years earlier.

They do occasionally go back to contemporary times for a holiday...

And sometimes Owen and Leona's family will venture through the wardrobe to join them in Victorian times....

like they did for Sena's First Birthday.

Most of Steve and Iris' family members have appeared as characters in other stories.
Eric played a young Baron, and Nyssa played young Grace in Somewhere in Time.

Little Sena played baby Kassia in the White Cat Sequel, and baby Baron in Somewhere in Time...

She also played baby Princess Paige in Somewhere in Time...

Steve had a role as a fashion magazine editor in Somewhere in Time..

..and he and Iris played Princess Kassia's parents in the White Cat Sequel

Asa's Family

Asa is a single mom with two children: Aaron and Byuri

She is also a famous Opera star, best known for her role as Queen of the Night in the Magic Flute....

Asa and Byuri played the roles of a Pacific Northwest First Nations mother and daughter in the Quest,

which was photographed on location along the west coast of the USA

...and in British Columbia...

Benny's Family

Benny is a single mom with three children, from the left: Erzulie, Efreet, and Angela

Erzulie and Efreet were among my earliest dolls, so have had many adventures with their BID friends...

Efreet went on a trip to the US southwest with a 'foster family' back in the Fall of 2014...

They finally got their forever family in 2017 with the arrival of Benny and Angela....

Benny has worked as a school crossing guard...

..and has come along as a parent helper on her kid's class field trips...

the Orphans

There's a group of dolls who will often appear in photos but don't have a family of their own. Standing at the back, from left: Peach and Narae. Middle row from left: Lizzy, Bordy, Chloe, Aki, and Cookie. Kneeling in front from left: Effie, Elin, and Erin

Narae was only my second BJD, and as such she had quite a few adventures in the early days.

But once my collection grew, she was designated to taking on support roles, usually as a Medieval maid, or as Butterfly Narae's sister in the Artist Narae story

She was most recently a teacher taking her class on a field trip to the museum in the Draco story....

Peach originally tried out as a member of a 'foster family' who went on a road trip to the US Southwest...

But it didn't take, so she ended up an orphan.

Cookie joined my BIDs back in 2018, and went on a trip to Newfoundland with four other children, who all ended up being adopted by Medieval Fantasy families, leaving Cookie by herself with her fellow orphan BIDs...

Elin was was my very first BID, but never found a family of her own. She did survive a near drowning on a camping trip when she got too close to a waterfall, fell in, and was swept down river. Thankfully Jan jumped in to rescue her.

Kaye Wiggs Girls

There's also a group of Mini and Tiny Kaye Wiggs girls. They don't have individual families of their own.
Back row from left: Hope, Missy, Fair Layla, Layla Elf, and Lenny. Front row from left: Tillie, Raillie, Talyssa, and Cinnamon.

They have spent much of their time as fairies...

the Biggest Dolls

All the bigger dolls have been with me from the very beginning, back when I bought them primarily to be costume models. They haven't been out of the display case in years, mostly because they are so big and heavy, but they are still nice to look at.
From the left; Asa, Carina, Tedros, Hazy, Ryung, Rosy

the Forest Dwellers

And last but not least, are my tiniest dolls, the Forest Dwellers...
Back row from left; Kitty and Rhett Fox, Ginger and Smuzhka Raccoon. Middle: Tiana and Mr. Ropuha Toads. Front row; Chip & Joanne Chipmunk, Missy, Max, Melody, Maisie, Mannie, and Muffy Mouse

They have had all kinds of adventures over the years, like camping trips...

..and have starred in two books...

So, that's my entire BJD collection. You can see them all in three Favourite Photos albums, starting with the Medieval Family Portraits