was something to look forward to. i had to wait for my mother to read the magazine and then i could tear out my page and start cutting.
i also found some pictures of old valentines with paper dolls. those were a special treat in our decorated shoe boxes of valentines from our classmates.
i remember spreading all my dolls out and dressing them with the various outfits, bending the little paper tabs that kept the clothes on the doll. i think we used to paste the dolls from magazines onto cardboard to keep them strong enough to stand up and be in the stories we made up about the lives of 