Living Doll

I was blessed with another little gift from a table guest on our last night at the Hitty Lark Foofarah! Sharon Kirby had carved these tiny little Hitty dolls for each lady at the table. She is totally darling!

The doll in the middle is the doll carved by Sharon and I named her Sharona. She was naked and of course needed a dress so I crocheted her one. The other two dolls were made by me. Now they were a little bit intimidated because Sharona is just so beautiful but I told them we are all beautiful in our own way. They liked that and are having a great time with each other!

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My Hitty Lark Foofaraw Hitty!

 I was so very thrilled to attend my very first Hitty doll event in Branson, Missouri, called the Hitty Lark Foofaraw!

It was so exciting to get to meet so many of the ladies from my Hitty and Friends Facebook page. It was hosted by Janet Cordell and her sister, Adina Huckins and a few other ladies. 

The last night was a dessert buffet and all of the attendees were given a beautiful specialty carved, just for us, Hitty Doll!

 

Here is my beautiful girl! Isn't she so pretty? In honor of the event I have named her Hitty Larken.

Here Hitty Larken is in the RV going home to live with me in Texas. She wanted to try on one of my girls dresses and of course I let her.

 

When we got home all of my Hittys were just thrilled to death to meet Hitty Larken and they had put together a ceremony just for her.  

Hitty Larken doesn't know if she is from Arkansas or Missouri, so my Hittys swore her in as a Texan. 

Hitty Larken says with her little wooden hand on the Bible, "I will say 'y'all' as often as I can, I will eat breaded fried okra when I can, I will salute the Texas flag, sing the state song 'Texas, Our Texas' when appropriate and honor the state flower, the bluebonnet, but not hold it too tightly as it's prickly - so help me God!"

 

 Then all of the bunch threw Hitty Larken a marvelous party and what fun they had!

After all of the festivities, Hitty Larken wanted a new shawl. I had received the pattern at the even from another Hitty friend so I went to town making the shawl just for her. As you can see, she is very happy with it.

Here she wants you to see the back.

Oh, little Hitty Larken is just so cute, don't you think?

Being that she is new and so very very special, I couldn't just stop with a shawl - I had to crochet her a pretty new dress too. She found a bonnet that was given to me in a Hitty swap and she said it would be just perfect with her new dress. It was!

Many adventures are certainly ahead for my little Texan Hitty Larken!

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My Room

I thought I would share with you "My Room". I sew, craft, make dolls, paint, just whatever I want to in here. This room is on the front of the house so I have a nice view of the front yard. It is really a very small bedroom but it turned into "My Room" instead. 

 

Let me get the door for you and show you around.

 

The old table is my busy busy area - where I sew and every thing else. You can see I have my TV in here so I can be entertained as I work. There is the pink Hitty dollhouse on the left. It was my mother's little china cabinet and when she passed away I took it and painted it pink and it was perfect for a dollhouse. In between the pink Hitty dollhouse and TV is my grandmother's old Singer treadle sewing machine. It doesn't work now but I did learn to sew on it - and I treasure it!

Here you can see the sewing machine a little better. I crocheted the runner on top, the little milk glass lamp belonged to my mother and I do store stuff all under it. Maybe I should make a little skirt to cover up my junk? Now that old file cabinet where the TV sits, I modge podged scrapbook paper on the drawers to make it look a little prettier. That's been almost ten years ago and the papers haven't pealed at all!

For years and years I did cross stitch and here are a few. I have tubs filled with gillions of pieces for all of the seasons.

 

This is the fabric I've used all over the room, a pretty blue and white toile. I made the curtains and used it on the skirt around the table, again where my stuff is hidden.

 

  

This is my chair. It's an old rolling office chair and I took a throw and covered the seat, back and arms to make it look a little prettier.

 I also made a skirt for the table so I could poke stuff under it and believe me, there is lots of stuff under that skirt!

 

 Behind my chair is where I keep lots of my supplies. I bought a bunch of these little plastic bins with drawers, covered the insides of the drawers with scrapbook paper to make the fronts look nicer. You can see another skirted table. Actually it's more file cabinets with a heavy top placed on to and I can poke all sorts of things in the drawers but it can still look pretty. I just love things to look pretty. More to see below.

 

 

  

  Moving on around the back of the room I have a comfy rocking chair, where my little mini Schnauzer has claimed.

 

 

I make Tilda dolls also and you can see some sitting on the little shelf. I seem to gravitate to olden things and have quite a few antiques. 

 Moving around the room you can see I have a little closet - I'm saying a tiny little closet and beside the closet is a little baker's rack where at the time this picture was taken, I kept my cross stitch floss and patterns here. Now it's filled with Hitty things.

 

 Above the baker's rack is another cross stitch pieces and on the baker's rack are some of my cherished little things. 

 Hope you've enjoyed touring "My Room".

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Meety Hitty Hally

 

Well, it seemed it was time to carve another Hitty so I want to introduce you to Hitty Hally. Since she was born in October and it's kinda close to Halloween - thus her name. She wanted orange hair and violet eyes. Here she is in her Halloween dress and is so looking forward to meeting you.

Here's her little face. Maybe she should have freckles. 

 

Hitty Hally wanted to make sure you could see her purple boots! I wonder now if she is going to have a colorful personality! Probably.

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Meet Hitty Luna

 

Well, here I go again! I had another girl in my head and there sat my wood and then - poof! Another Hitty popped out! Meet Hitty Luna, another October girl. I started to name her Wolfie, but thought it just might give her an idea.

 

Here's a close up of Hitty Luna's little face. I'm sure glad I didn't name her Wolfie!

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First Day of School!

The children were on their way to their first day of school and how excited they were. Miss Pearl was waiting to give the children a great big hug. Rue got sidetracked as she stopped to pet a dog who was peeping over the fence. Dusty just had to bring Tang back to school. I'm sure they will have a wonderful day!

After roll call a special day was planned by Miss Pearl. She had asked  Becassine to come to class and teach the children a few French words. The children were so very attentive and were trying to hard to learn.

After Becassine had left it was on to Hitty studies. Miss Pearl had all of the Hitty books on her desk. Even though Bubba and Dusty aren't really Hittys, they were still excited to learn about Hittys.           Tang took his seat on the Hitty beach at the back of the room.

  Miss Pearl is so kind to her students. She ordered in hamburgers and cokes for all of the kiddos for lunch. They were enjoying them so much as the Hittys and boys had never had a hamburger before nor a coke. Miss Pearl even got Tang a hamburger too!

  

The children all look so cute sitting in their colorful desks. Their class room is filled with lots of color to hold their attention so they won't get board. They have had a wonderful first day of school and it's going to be a wonderful year. There's only one thing missing... 

RECESS!!

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Bitty Hitty Baily

While looking through some of my wood pieces I found a smaller piece of wood I had saved to make miniature furniture and thought...hmm. So I decided to use it to carve a Bitty Hitty! Meet Bitty Hitty Baily. She's about 3.75" tall. I have learned how to join little dolls with elastic and that's how she's jointed. She got a new dress and you can see that in the comments. Hope you like Bitty Hitty Baily!

I think she turned out pretty cute, don't you?

This little Bitty Hitty certainly could not remain naked, so I had to make her a new dress! Here you can see Bitty Hitty Baily's new dress and can how Edra is taking care of her.

  Seems I’ve been been neglecting my newer Hittys and haven’t make them any more dresses. Shame on me! They all love little Bitty Hitty Bailey and her dress…so I grabbed the rest of the fabric and made them dresses this morning. They are all pleased. Each dress is from a different pattern because I forgot which one I really liked! Good grief. Little Bitty Hitty Bailey is sure loving all of this attention!

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Taking a Trip

 

 We are on an rv trip and at the moment are in Natchez, Mississippi. Our mini Schnauzer, Willow. always comes along. Hitty Annalie got the privilege to tag along on this journey and has really taken a liking to Willow! Hitty Annalie got another new dress. I know the scale is completely off but this was a scrap from a dress I made my granddaughter when she was in the first grade and now she’s 14! I just had to! 

Here is a closeup and I made sure the little owl was front and center of the bodice! I’m just so talented, ya know!

We toured the beautiful Rosalie mansion in Natchez and Hitty Annalie wanted her picture taken in front on the gate. They wouldn’t let us take snaps inside so this is the best we could do. Hitty Annalie wanted to make sure you all could see her in her new dress of course!

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Meet Hitty Macy!

 Well, I seemed to have had another Hitty in my head that needed to be carved. I have determined if I wait a week or a few days between carvings, my hands don't get the ouchies! Anyway, please meet new Hitty Macy! She is happy to join the group! 

 

Here's a closeup of Hitty Macy's little face! She looks pretty sweet, doesn't she?

 

I had to make her a new dress and she seems to be pleased. I think she's going to love the other Hittys!

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