Author: mary yates

February 12 2025

We have acquired a new hitty to our household. She is a wonderful 4 inch sweetie handcarved from walnut by Ally  S.  From the Ukraine who is now living in Ireland.

The following photos were taken by alla s.

We are all thrilled with her.

She is very sweet and loves to dress up.

She arrived in this wonderful dress

sewn by alla s.  She has been named hitty alla to honor her maker

The following photos were taken by miss mary

Hitty alla wearing a purchased crocheted dress and itty bitty  hitty wearing a dress handsewn by miss mary

Well hitty allas arrival brought lots of excitement and pleasure to  all of us. Miss

Mary has quite a stash of purchased crocheted outfits that should fit hitty alla and she can not hardly wait to model them.

Hopefully I will be back soon with another entry.

Stay safe and well

Hitty Ann

Here are some photos of my teddy friends

Lil brown bear wearing a dress sewn by miss Mary

Buffy the pup wearing a dress sewn by miss Mary

Sweetie bear wearing a dress sewn years ago by grandma Ruth (Wagner  Mary’s mother)

Sandy bear wearing a dress also sewn by grandma ruth

In the back is our largest teddy resident bear aka big brown bear by boyds bears

Here i am hitty Ann far right wearing a dress sewn by miss mary

Left to right

Tiny gail wilson wearing a pre made gail wilson dress

Hitty alla wearing a crocheted dress purchased from ebay

Itty bitty  raikes wearing a dress sewn by miss Mary

And to show sze difference far  right hitty Jing Jing  hicks  6 1/2 inch wearing a dress sewn by miss mary.

I hope you all had a love filled valantines day.

Stay safe and well

Hitty ann

Feb 7, 2025

My Facebook hitty doll group had a dress swap . With my health problems right now I felt unreliable as a swap partner so I swapped with myself. Lol

My focus was so bad it took  3 tries to get an end product that I would accept as good enough for me to swap with me.  Lol

The hat is trimmed by me but was already made not by me. I love making  my own straw hats but maybe after my surgery and recovery I will feel more focused,

The fabric is a gorgeous liberty of london cotton tana print  with silk like drape. I like it so much I may make a few more and call them my summer  liberty series . Lol

My  surgery  is now scheduled for February 21. Hospital  stay 3 to 5 days with recovery 3 to 6 months. In patient rehab unsure at this time. My surgeon will know more when he actually gets in there. Damage was extensive when the 10 year old knee replacement failed and I may even need a steel pin or something in part of my leg.  Is it not a w0nderful thing that they can operate on you and make you better?

Hitty Ann will do her best to keep this blog current while I recover

February 1, 2025

Here I am modeling a dress sewn by miss Mary for her mother’s hitty.

I have inherited this dress.

I am accompanied by my little wooden beagle daisy an all wood dog. By Robert raikes.

Also my little teddy bear, Buddy was personally handcarved by Robert raikes and he is 5 way jointed.

January 21 2025

two of my Raikes hittys use this beautiful backdrop to model a couple of fancy dresses

The dress on the left is from a vogue ginny  doll

Collection called blue prom dress and the pink dress on the right was created by Elizabeth Rollins from er couture inspired by the dancing dress from hittys book by Rachel field. The pink straw hat was made by me.

The backdrop was gifted to me by my dear friend Susan Cook whom I believe purchased it years ago at a Tuesday morning shop.

Hello everyone,

Mama mary has been working on assembling and decorating our new living quarters. Lots of finishing touches and details will need to be added but here are some pictures of current progress.

Xtra large roomboxes from mniatures.com were used. They are a pretty good size for us 6 Inch hittys, although of course we would prefer roomier. The room our boxes are in is only 10″ ‘x 10’ . We feel very lucky to have a dedicated dolly space in mama Mary’s real life home.

Next mama mary will be working on the gail wilson hitty doll display we will try to keep you posted.

That’s all for now. Take care and stay safe

Hitty Ann Raikes

Easter 2023

After dinner we all played games. It was a wonderful day spent with great people.

Mama mary has been busy making hats for us hittys and I will be posting about that soon.

Everybody stay safe and well.

Hitty ann

Hitty jing jing hicks visits hitty ann

Hitty jing jing was carved from hard maple by Bruce and Fung Hicks. Her dress was also made by Fung Hicks.

wall quilt was sewn by Julie old crow and sent to us in a Christmas swap long ago

Sledding and skiing

December 17, 2022

October 26th 2022

No posts last two months due mostly to the fact that moving to michigan and unpacking and setting up the new house exhausted mama mary so completely that the teddy stuff did not get unpacked until this week, although sweetie bear and I have been sleeping in mamas room with her. We have been joined by a sweet kitten who used to reside with aunt geri. She is a cute little Grey and white kitty named Olivia, called Ollie for short, she will be sharing our clothing with us. Just one little problem — she has a long tail!- most of our clothing does not have tail holes, her poor little tail has to be tucked up out of the way. She doesn’t seem to mind. She loves all the attention she gets living with us.

Our Hitty friends are unpacked, but are awaiting the finishing up of painting a cabinet for them in which they can reside,

Mama mary is in the process of painting an older cabinet for them to use until new room boxes can get built. The old room boxes did not make the cut this move. They had been moved so many times in the past that they were no longer stable or attractive. The plan is to replace them with the same type of boxes one at a time all winter long. Mama gained a lot of experience building the older ones and hopes to do a better job of building this time. It will be her big project after she gets her real life bedroom painted. So much to do. She has the time , it is just the energy that is lacking . Meanwhile the hittys hope to show up in a new post soon as the temporary cabinet is expected to be ready later this week.

Well take care everyone. It has been a long and arduous and emotional journey these last 6 months and we hope to establish “a new normal” soon.

Stay safe

Sandy bear