I became "hooked on Hitty" when I attended a program about wooden dolls and stayed for the program about Hitty at the first UFDC Convention in Dallas. There I met Virginia Heyerdahl. and we became friends. I had done other dolls from books, but had never thought about making Hitty since she was carved.

Virginia suggested a "New Hitty for the new millennium" as we corresponded about doing a Hitty theme breakfast at the Regional meeting in Sacramento in October, 1998. Since my media is porcelain rather than wood, a porcelain version of Hitty was born to be the souvenir at the breakfast. She was modeled after the descriptions in the book Hitty, Her First Hundred Years.

The souvenir dolls are marked with "Hitty" "R2N" "1998" the copyright symbol and my trademark. There are only 100 of these Hittys.

I now offer a similar Hitty, with only the year, copyright and trademark, no R2N incising. She is $75. which includes a donation to the Preservation of Hitty Fund. She also has white stockings and a blue painted garter to further distinguish the two versions.