Do you love paperdolls like I do ?  Do you like to play with and/or to design outfits for them ?
do you spend lots of money or just some money to buy paperdolls ? Do you like to hunt new and old paper dolls ? Do you, do you, do you, well, I could continue forever with questions....
If your answer - just to some of my questions - is a BIG YES, then you must be just as mad as the rest of us....

Just as a child I started collecting paperdolls, cutting them out designing outfits, and "building houses, rooms, a circus", etc. Often when I had done my mummy or my aunt a extra favour, they gave me money, and I rushed away to buy a paperdoll. Family and Friends gave me paperdolls from magazines and newspapers. Besides, my sister and I were so lucky that our favorite aunt (our mother's sister, who lived in Delaware), often sent us paperdoll books with movie stars, children, families, etc. At last I had a fine collection. I also took care of a baby sometimes (friends of my parents) to earn money for paperdolls.. ©

I grew older, studied, became interested in art, music, jaz and boys, but still I took out paperdolls from newspapers and magazines, when I saw one, and some times I could sit and play and design outfits. I got married, and often played with paperdolls with my two oldest children.

But then a "disaster" happened: One summer day after a long hot and dry period, it started raining cats and dogs, and suddenly all basements all over the suburbd were transformed into swimming pools, as the sewers could not bear all that water....  I started to run down, and the first thing I saw was my vacuum cleaner sailing around, and the a lot of wet, grey paper: Paper dolls, books, old comic strips, postcards, etc.....  I was at that time pregnant with our youngest son, Bjørn, (he is now 24) so I just gave up and took care of the two other children, Thordis and Steen (3½ and 5 years old. Both my husband Povl and I were "Deeply depressed" when seeing all that damage. The insurance covered it, but you will never get back again all the things you have lost...  Many years later I started again, and I dare say that I have a good collection, but still I miss all my Childhood's memories...

I am now grandmother to three marvellous kids, and next spring to one more.
And of course I play paperdolls with my grandchildren...

As we are so many, many paperdollers, I decided to issue a magazine/-newsletter, PÅKLÆDNINGS-DUK-KEN (THE PAPERDOLL) just to let all the paperdollers be friends and getting to know each other.

And so I started nearly three years ago - February 1995) with just a small issue in A5-format, you might be sure that I was exicet..... ws it to gamble - Denmark is a small country ? would anyone subscribe ? would they like this small magazine ? .... but I was never disappointed, my telephone was burning, everyone wanted a sample issue and most of them also draw a subscription... Most of the paperdollers wrote articles for my magazine and sent me paperdoll news, own designed paperdolls, etc., and we also arranged twomeetings the first year. Two very nice meetings where we chattered, exchanged, bought and sold paper dolls. The paperdollers found new friends, and no one had to sit quite alonewith her/huis paperdolls. Now you could phone together, visit a friend, go to markets together, visit museums together, arrange exhibitions together etc, etc.

Many paperdollers asked me to issue PÅKLÆDNINGSDUKKEN in a bigger format, and from Februar 1996, I made it in A4... and all of us were happy.

During the first year I met Marianne Mathiasen, and when asking her whether she would like to be my co-editor, she answered YES, and through Marianne's talented articles
PÅKLÆDNINGSDUKKEN got "a lift to the better" !  Marianne has designed BODIL our Logo-paperdoll, and she also got the splendid idea to learn us to draw. In each issue you will find a take-out-page....

Februar 1998, issue 13 will come out..., and new (unknown to us) paperdollers are still calling me for subscription. Did I tell you that I always place a page in English inside the magazine !  I have many English/Ameri-can speaking subscribers, and the English/American page is just an appetizer. When a paperdoller ask for a full translation of an article, she will get it.

In each issue you will as mentioned find BODIL, our Logo-paperdoll designed by Marianne. Bodil always appears in the foreword) and inside the magazine, and each time with a new outfit suitable for the time of the year or for a certain event, such as when our queen Margrethe II celebrated her 25 jubilee as our queen. We dare say that BODIL is a very versatile women....

The Shrovetide-Cover of issue 13 is also by Marianne. EMMY is one of the many children who will til on the barrel - dressed up to look fancy....  © ©  ©

In issue 13 I am featuring Lene Larsen who has also designed two sheets with the paperdoll METTE - being with this issue as goodies. Besides also an extra sheet with a teddy bear paperdoll from Hanne Petersen.

In PÅKLÆDNINGSDUKKEN you will also find articles about paperdolls, this time about f.inst. Japanese Dolls, Betsy McCall, Danish animals from the fifties, Paper Doll History etc.. we have descriptions of new and old paperdolls. Take-Out Pages: Learn to draw, flea market, paper dolls from some of the subscribers, list of other magazines/newsletter, and, and, and...

I'll now shortly give you the contents of issue 13: Front and Back Cover: EMMY - Shrovetide Celebrations. P.3: Foreword, 4-5: Meetings, exhibitions, markets. 6-7: Paperdoll History, I. 8: Featuring Lene Larsen. 9: A solved Mystery. 10: Memories of Childhood by Bente Ørsted. 11: Mini cornflakes Paper Doll, Axe Boysen Books, etc. 12-14:  Books about paperdolls, a piece of good advice, greetings from mary Longo. 15: Trille Langøre (Longear), favorites of my childhood. 16: Happy meeting and James Bond. 17-19: The Paper Doll Café, and a com-petition. 20: More about Betsy McCall. 21-22: How to draw hands. 23: Mini-Meeting in Funen and Winter Outfit-paperdoll. 24: Dress me doll DINA. clothes for Betina. 25: Japanese paperdolls. 26: What we have found, news. Do you remember abnd greetings from Conni. 29: Clothes for Betina. 30-31: More found paperdolls, A marvellous book, etc. 32: Greetings in December. 33: We still find paperdolls - and solve another mystery. 34-35: Miscellaneous. 36: Greetings from Rita Ottesen. 37: Bodil' and her dropped decision of slimming... and greetings from Esther Stoltz. 38: Do you know ? 39: From the Editor.
 
As you will se, I love to design paper dolls and outfits, and I love to see what other paperdollers are drawing and collecting.

PÅKLÆDNINGSDUKKEN IS A NON-PROFITABLE MAGAZINE being issued 4 times a year: February, May, September and December, you are always welcome to send in news, stories, etc.

Looking forward to a small or big note from you I wish you a happy new papperdolling year.

Love from Lise

PS:  Did I mention that especially I am collecting teddy bears, cats, rabbits, and other pets and animals as paper dolls, and also paper dolls from Comic Strips and newspapers... Which ones do you prefer ?

Extra PS: I am also a doll and teddy bear collector (and maker) and of course I have started a magazine for doll, teddy bear and miniature lovers: Nordisk DUK-KETIDENDE (Nordic Dolltimes) also non-profitable, but this is quite another story which I'll tell you later © © ©  Yet I should shortly mention the contents of my February issue just sent out:
 
   Front: A Codan Doll JUL-A-Marie from the fifties (read the article on pp 4-6). 3: Foreword. 4-6: Dolls and Doll Marks. 7-10: Kader Dolls. 11: A Museum Story. 12-13: Learn to paint lips. 14-15: Teddy Bear Pages. 16: Letter from Zenia in Skive. 17-18 Petrea Nielsen's lovely and talented modelled dolls. 19: A very good doll house and miniature museum in Holland. 20 and 29: Our meetings. 21-24 and 25-28:  The Take out Pages. Make a Carrot Pin, Make a Teddy Bear Pin. 30-31: The Hovborg Dolls. 32: Kader Dolls (cont.) 33-34: German-Danish Sewing Dictionnary II. 35: Flea Market - and how to enlarge patterns. 36-37: Barbie pages with paper doll. 38-42: Markets, fairs, and a tip when sewing tiny garments. 43-46: Oh, Great World. 47: From the Editor.
 

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