I guess I have had my Grammie on my mind lately, and with all the quilting magazines I have...got me remembering how I used to love playing with the Betsy McCall paper dolls that Grammie used to save me in her McCall's magazines. Now, here I am grown up and buying McCall's Quilting magazines.
Do any of you out there remember the paper dolls, and having fun spending lots of hours playing with them also?
Happy Quilting!!
Nancy

Yes a friend of my mom's saved them for me to play with.

My mom use to buy the magazine every August - that is when I had my yearly permanent for the school year. Betsy kept me entertained as my mom rolled those stinky rods!

Paper dolls was one of my favorite things to play with.

Oh, I loved Betsy McCall. My mom subscribed in the '50's and my sisters and I always got the doll out right away.

Check out this link:

http://tpettit.best.vwh.net/dolls/pd...ge_format.html

You can print the doll pages from the magazines!!

Anita

What a cool site! If only I had known these were here when my granddaughters were younger.

Oh my goodness, I used to get the perms too lol. Did you ever get the rag curls?? My mom would bring me to my aunt's and they would do them together. I remember being miserable having to sit there so long. Oh what memories!!

I remember paper dolls. didn't play with them much though.

I played with paper dolls all the time!

Yes, I remember playing with betsy McCall paper dolls. Couldn't wait for my mother to get the magazine each month.

Oh yes, my mom always gave me the page to cut out. I looked for it every time she got McCall's mag in the mail. I loved paper dolls. Designed my own dolls and clothes too.

Thanks for the link. Really brings back memories.

Thanks for the memories...if I ever have grand-daughters I will have to make copies for them to play with!

I remember Betsy, and I also had the Lennon Sisters paper dolls!

I do remember that page of paperdolls. They were really cute.

I had shoe boxes full of paper dolls. Oh...those were the days!!!

I too, had a huge box of paper dolls. I could play with them for hours although I really enjoyed just sitting on my bed and cutting out all the clothes. Once my younger sis got mad at me and took a couple of my favorites and 'drowned' them in the bathroom sink. Mom rescued them and dried them out. Wish I still had them all but I think in one of our later family moves, they might have somehow got tossed out as not necessary. I do remember when they quit putting Betsy in the magazine, too. Gone are the days.. :-(

I remember rag curls. My mom would do my hair every time we had something special to go to. I loved paper dolls too.

I remember playing with Betsy McCall paper dolls for hours and hours. The website brought a smile to my face bringing back the memories. I didn't have to sit through the perm each fall, my hair was so curly my mother could hardly get a brush and comb through it!

Yes, I loved them too!

I love the Betsy McCall paper dolls. I used to buy the Mary Englebreight magazine just for the memories. Each one had a doll cutout page (heavier paper or card stock). I think I will be printing some of the Betsy dolls. Sure, I need more things like that. lol

I remember waiting almost reverently to get our first glimps of the dolls each month. I think there was a year or so where each doll was from a different country and we could hardly wait to see where the next one would be from. I still love paper dolls. And I like that the cloths don't have to be cut out any more. I ruined many dresses before I was a very good cutter.

Oh yeah, had the rag curls every saturday night for sunday school and church on Sunday. I am one of 4 daughters and we all got ragged.

I remember waiting almost reverently to get our first glimps of the dolls each month. We could hardly wait to see where the next one would be from or what they would be. I still love paper dolls. And I like that the cloths don't have to be cut out any more. I ruined many dresses before I was a very good cutter.

yes i played for hours and hours with those

we used to play with Betsy All the time

i remember those!

thanks for the happy flashback! :-)

I sure do! I haven't seen them in years!! It was always a special day when my grandmother gave me the new ones.

I was going to buy the magazine when my girls were little, but I didn't because they had no paperdolls anymore. It was a great marketing strategy; wonder why they stopped and became like a thousand other magazines...

I remember playing with Betsy McCall paper dolls. I had to wait to see what was on the back of the page before I could cut them out. I didn't dare cut into a "story" to get my dolls!

I loved paper dolls when I was young. Betsy McCall was one of my favorites. It is so nice to here others loved them too. I made a paper (fabric) doll quilt for my grandaughters birthday last year. I think it was more for me.

Loved those paper dolls! I had no sisters so they were ALL MINE!

Mother bought very few magazines when I was growing up, but this was one bought especially for her girls who didn't have many "real" dolls.

Oh Dear God, I remember my yearly Lilt well. It was not just a normal Lilt, I had to go all the way to Nutley (from Newark) so my Aunt Lillian could do the job! Then in every kindergarten picture I look like Bozo the clown. Straight crown, bizarre curls the rest. I thought I was the only one. Thanks for sharing.

My younger Sis has a Betsy McCall Doll. She loved it as a kid, and still has it, with lots of clothes in her little doll carrying case.

Yes, I remember them!! When I see a Betsy McCall I think of those great times

Oh, I used to love my paper dolls! My mom got me the comic book, Millie the Model, that always had paper dolls in the centrefold.

This is a terrific site, my granddaughters will love it!

I remember those. Great memories. Remember the little tabs to open up so the paper dolls could stand?

At summer school for special ed. students we made paper dolls. I brought in fabric and we lamaniated it along with the dolls. We cut out outfits and applied them to the dolls with velcro dots. It was so much fun.

I remember them too!