Hello.
People sometimes say they want to know something about me, so I guess I should tell them something. My name is Rachel Cohen. I was born in Alaska. It was there that I hatched the plan for creating a paper doll blog. Alaska has a lot of cold dark winters. This is the result. I’ve been drawing paper dolls since I was a child, though the last art class I had was in high school. I’ve lived in Alabama, Oregon, and Illinois (so all of those places will show up in old posts.) I’m back in Alaska these days. I’m a librarian, former archivist, poet and professor. I do lots of things and one of those things is draw lots of paper dolls.
Other than paper dolls, I like historical costume, poetry, sewing, dolls, baking, history, theater, and dictionaries. I’m extremely interested in all forms of ephemeral printing, especially that of paper toys and novelties, the history of the book, popular theater from the 18th, 19th and early 20th century, Alaskan history, as well as the search for a perfect cheese scone recipe. It is entirely possible that I became a librarian, so that I will have a good cover job when I become a super villain.
And I am always willing to get sent new cheese scone recipes. Right now, my favorite is the America’s Test Kitchen Jalapeño and Cheddar scones.
My goals with Paper Thin Personas are to provide a diverse collection of printable paper dolls, keep myself amused, and gain great fame and fortune. I know I succeed at two of these while the third remains elusive. The opinions expressed on this blog are those solely of the me, the author, unless I have changed my mind or don’t remember what I wrote anyway, and should not be confused with those of my employer, friends, family or cat. In my dreams this blog updates at least once or twice a month, but in reality, who knows what I’m doing here anyway. I don’t.
I am a member of the Original Paper Doll Artists Guild which is a great organization. I have three published paper doll books, a little Etsy store where I sell some of my larger sets, and a Patreon page.
If you have any questions about this blog, want to say hi, would like to license my work, or have a really good cheese scone recipe, please feel free to contact me.
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