
When my mother was little, her Aunt Georgia sent a Dolly Dingle paper doll with clothes to change, along with a story poem about Dolly. When I was a girl, my sister and I cut out ladies from the Sears catalogue, then chose catalogue clothes for them to wear. Gloria’s doll was named Luanne. When granddaughter Kate was here we played paper dolls with a kit gifted by friend Lynne, who has lots of granddaughters. The two cardboard girls have stands so they can model what we cut out for them–dresses, rompers, costumes. Kate drew a backdrop for them from a file folder, then cast them in a video skit of knock-knock jokes, complete with her mother’s laugh track in the background.

