{"id":305,"date":"2009-11-03T22:14:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T11:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2009-11-03T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T11:22:47","slug":"the-little-fairy-paper-dolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"The Little Fairy Paper Dolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-306 aligncenter\" title=\"The Little Fairy Paper Dolls\" src=\"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/LittleFairy_paperdollA.jpg\" alt=\"The Little Fairy Paper Dolls\" width=\"440\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/LittleFairy_paperdollA.jpg 440w, https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/LittleFairy_paperdollA-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My Mum found this treasure for me at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkelouw.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkelouws<\/a> on the journey home after their last visit to Melbourne. Isn&#8217;t it wonderful? It was published in 1951 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.souvenirsofthepast.com\" target=\"_blank\">Merrill Company Publishers<\/a>, Chicago. There are 4 dolls on the cover (Little Girl, Little Boy, Pink Fairy and Green Fairy) each with perforated edges, and 6 pages of clothes to cut out inside. It is in near perfect condition. Amazing considering it is around 57years old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-312 aligncenter\" title=\"Little Fairy Paper Doll - Page sample\" src=\"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Fairy_paperdollB.jpg\" alt=\"Little Fairy Paper Doll - Page sample\" width=\"440\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Fairy_paperdollB.jpg 440w, https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Fairy_paperdollB-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I adore paper dolls. It all started when I was seven. There was a girl called Helen who lived at the end of our street. She was a few years older then me and she used to hand draw little paper dolls and clothes to match and I thought she was so very clever! I wish I still had the one she gave me. Unfortunately I have no idea what happened to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Mum found this treasure for me at Berkelouws on the journey home after their last visit to Melbourne. Isn&#8217;t it wonderful? It was published in 1951 by Merrill Company Publishers, Chicago. There are 4 dolls on the cover (Little Girl, Little Boy, Pink Fairy and Green Fairy) each with perforated edges, and 6 pages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favourite-books","category-things-with-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}