Since I’m unemployed, I stick to a budget, and when I do shop, I first try to support locally-owned businesses. I visited three of those recently (Cactus Music, Soundwaves, and Texas Art Supply).
As I was leaving the coloring book section at Texas Art Supply, I spotted these. I photographed them with a bottle of nail polish (clear, of course!) to show how tiny they are.
Just a couple of royals and a commoner and actor who married up and became mothers. At $1.99 each, I spend a lot more money and emotion on other stuff (like art supplies, music, and books–and boy, do I miss the two Half Price Books storefronts in my old shopping ‘hoods).
LOL, I cut off the rest of my post, so ETA: I DID have paper dolls when I was a kid, and I remember two sets in particular. I’ve looked on eBay through the years to see if anyone else has ever listed them. I probably wouldn’t buy them, but I’d like to see them again, just because they stick in my memory.
I also had a set of Colorforms (or maybe Colorforms knockoffs) that I’ve also never seen listed.
I know all of this stuff is out there. It always is.
A couple years ago I was scrolling back through some ancient Amazon orders like I was going over old journal entries. (“Oh, yeah. I remember when my niece was interested in pottery wheels!”) I discovered I’d bought Nancy Reagan cut-out paper dolls as an ironic present for a friend I’d forgot existed. So now I’m thinking about him again. His nickname is Casperey, but I can’t remember his real name. Wait. I was about to say he was “an interesting guy” which triggered it. His name is Guy. Now I’m hoping Nancy received zero royalties for those paper dolls.
I’m glad your memory was jogged and you got the name. Because trying to think of stuff like that can keep me up nights.
I think we sold re-issues of those paper dolls in our bookstore. By the time you were buying them, they were probably being published by Dover and were in the public domain, which likely means none of your money went to her.