I taught myself to sew when I was thirteen because I FINALLY got a dollhouse but it turned out everyone who made dollhouse dolls either sold naked kits or sold dolls with their clothes sewn or glued on. I grew up on Barbie, and frankly? Sewn-on clothes were not what I wanted. So, that was twenty years ago, and now I can do things like this. Okay, I didn't make the jeans, but nobody should have to make jeans ever.

Since I'm not much of a pen-and-paper artist, paper dolls were usually beyond me... although I did have a big 'set' that my grandmother cut out of catalogs for me. Also known as, how to make clothing catalogs interesting to a four-to-six year old.