Doll News Summer 2017 - 104

Why I believe
in Fairies

The Art of Stephanie Blythe
By J i l l Kaar Hanson
Photos By Stephanie Blythe unless otherwise noted

The "Teacup Fairy"
is a delicate 5-inch
fairy dressed in
antique fabric. She
naps in a beautiful
teacup. That's
how the career of
Stephanie Blythe
began.

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I

was not a child who looked for fairies.
I didn't even know that there were Green
or Blue or Lilac Fairy Books. I liked "Nana"
better than "Tinkerbelle." My favorite "fairy
story" was the story of the Cottingley Fairies, a series
of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901-88)
and Frances Griffiths (1907-86), two young English
cousins whose claim to have captured fairies on film
at the bottom of their garden, caught the attention of
the world, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Then in 1989 I attended my first UFDC National
Convention in St Louis. And my first salesroom
- French bébés, German characters, mint-in-box
Madame Alexander dolls from the 1950s. I
could barely breathe.
Along the back wall the doll artists
had their displays. Some worked in
cloth, some in porcelain and some
in what was a fairly new medium,
synthetic clay. Then I walked into
the booth of Stephanie Blythe
and her business partner, Susan
Snodgrass, and suddenly I believed
in fairies.
On display were diminutive dolls
dressed in antique fabrics and trims,
napping in elegant teacups that would
have been right at home at either of my
grandmothers' afternoon teas. Each fairy
sported a pair of real butterfly wings. My
Imagination was captured.



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