I come from a family of makers and savers. As a girl, my mom used pages from discarded wallpaper sample books to make clothes for her Fay Wray paper doll, each pattern dictating the garment. She would also transform hollyhocks into Carmen Miranda dolls—the flower became the skirt, and the bud, Carmen’s signature headdress. She made magic.
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