Sheila Glyn Jones
Sheila talks about
being a flower fairy model:
"Everything had to be deadly accurate
with Cicely
and she had this big chest
full of dressing up things
- wings and drapes and all.
She was so nice
and she never expected you
to stand still for too long.
We weren't all pretty,
she didn't really go for that,
she went for the nice children,
and for features."
"Gladys and her family
lived not very far away
- they were very poor
and Gladys had the most lovely
little face.
And she chose Gladys
for 6 of her little fairies.
And when Gladys was to be
a little flower fairy model
she was allowed in
through the front door,
but when she was being the tweenie,
which she did
for a shilling on a Saturday,
scrubbing floors and polishing steps,
then she had to go down the back stairs,
the kitchen stairs."
"I think it was the fact
that she used real people
that made her pictures so popular.
Cicely's fairies were very down to earth."