Madame Butterfly
A sad story
Madame Butterfly by Puccini permeates Constance’s Saturday with beauty and tragedy. She is reading Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti, a semi-autobiographical novel that was one of the inspirations for the opera.
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Chinese New Year 2014
Kung Hei Fat Choi
Rose wishes all the Quimper Hitty friends a very Happy New Year. Kung Hei Fat Choi…
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Mungo
Mungo
This is Mungo, the boy Hitty-sized doll made by me. I carved him out of a piece of Yellow Cedar salvaged from a building that was condemned. The blank was cut by an obliging carpenter at my place of work. The blank was a bit narrow, so I thought he’d have to be a boy (there wasn’t enough wood to make Hitty hair).
The original building was constructed by a man named Mungo, so I’d decided before he even had a face that that would be his name.
Absolutely by coincidence, Mungo was finished on January 13th, 2014, the feast day of St Mungo, patron saint of Glasgow. On the very first day he was decently attired, he and the Quimper Hittys celebrated Robbie Burns Day.
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To Everything There Is A Season
Grief and Gratitude
Carya and Constance Remember Pete Seeger. (more…)
Red Flannelette Pantaloons
Dressed for Cold Weather
Our brave and daring (and sometimes reckless) Tansy is determined to have a proper Canadian Winter Experience. She has arranged to be sent to Winnipeg, where this week it is -45 degrees C.
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Hattie
Frosty morning
This is Hattie, carved by me using a Janet Cordell blank. Hattie was finished in October 2012, but there was something funny about her nose, and I meant to try and deal with it, but lost my nerve, so she appears regularly in my blog from March 2013.
In the fall of 2013 I fixed her nose issue by carving off quite a chunk of the right side of it, so her new birthday is November 18th! I am sorry to say I forgot to add her to the Hittys page until now, and only realised it when trying to put the Mungo page together, so Hattie today, Mungo will have to wait for his own page for a day or two.
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Mungo and The Bard
Plans Afoot
Some of the Quimper Hittys have decided to celebrate Rabbie Burns Day….wherein Scots and people who admire them celebrate the poetry of The Bard Robert Burns (1759 – 1796).
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