paper dolls & cut outs

when i was a little girl

around 10 or so

my next door neighbor, denise ( also known as uncie) & i

would play cut outs

cut outs were our version of paper dolls

we would beg the neighborhood ladies

for their sears & roebucks or montgomery ward catalogs

we would cut out our families and then shop for

 clothes

 houses
furniture

 toys

appliances

husbands

& children

we would use bobby pins to hold on their clothes

my mom was the local beautician

so we had acess to bobby pins & scissors

we had the best of everything
clothes

wedding dresses

above ground pools

split ranch houses
all the latest appliances

all our children were cute, clean & well behaved

and our husbands all looked like models

after all, we were a model family
and all of our shopping trips were free
so we could afford the best

we kept our families & their homes in shoe boxes

along with our bobby pins, scissors & some little rocks

the rocks held our homes & families in place on windy days
as we most often had our little worlds spread all over the front porch

uncie & i spent many days with our paper families & their belongings

those were the best of days

now i have this little grandgirlie

when i found these cute magnetic paper dolls

i couldn't resist

they even came in a cute little bag

how cute is that!

she's not quite sure what to do with them yet

but we'll keep playing

and she'll figure it out

&

hopefully

she'll remember these days

as the best of days

~*~