Elaine Shants

The artist Elaine Shants attended the San Antonio convention, after taking a hiatus from the paper doll making world. For those of us who collect her Famous Paper Doll Women series from the 1980s, it was wonderful to meet her and to know she's returning to the drawing board, so to speak.

Vintage Jenny

In San Antonio, Jenny Taliadoros, editor and publisher of Paper Doll Review and Paper Doll Studio, had on a fabulous vintage dress, and completed her look with seamed stockings and high heels.

Way to go, Jenny!

Lone Nunnally

More San Antonio photos. Lone Nunnally has a wonderful Web site called Origami Bears. It was fun to see her and others who chat on the Yahoo paperdollnews group.

More convention dress-up

From the top: Beverly Micucci and Brenda Sneathen Mattox. We were encouraged to dress in a 1940s-style salute to the military.

Grace Keene

Grace Keene and her mother in law Katherine did a terrific job organizing the raffles area at the San Antonio convention.

UPDATE: In the background, I believe that is Jim Faraone to the right, and Helen Page's daughter, Margaret Allen, to the left.

Dress Up

Mary Bolster and Jan McKay. Dress up is part of the fun of every convention.

Tom Tierney

Tom Tierney at San Antonio. Tom's stories about his New York days are legendary. We look forward to seeing him at every convention.
One of the best articles about Tom can be found in the fall 2001 issue of Tin House, a literary magazine. In a wonderful bit of whimsy, an article about the actor Bill Murray in the same issue is illustrated by a Tom Tierney paper doll of the actor.