Thursday, May 5, 2011

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

~*~

1 comment:

Lola Nova said...

Aren't those magnetic dolls great? We even have a set of hula girls from Hawaii!
Thank you for sharing your precious childhood memories too!