Introducing...

THE GRAND CHALLENGE!!!

~ How to Qualify ~

1st: Be a member of the Hittygirls Yahoo Group, registered no later that July 17, 2009

2nd: Do you own a creation of any kind made by TC Vollum?  No?  Poor thing.  Oh, no...WAIT!  If your answer is definitely, absolutely NO...

Then you qualify for the GRAND CHALLENGE!!!

~ How to Play ~

1st: Qualify

2nd: You must photograph your Hitty re-enacting a scene-any scene-from the book Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, by Rachel Field.

3rd: Submit your photograph to ME (Martha...email provided below.)  (If it is larger than 700x700, I will have to resize it, and you may not like the results, so please be sure it is not a huge, honkin' picture!)

4th: Wait patiently for me to get it up on the Hittygirls site, and enjoy the pictures from other entrants as well.

5th: Though this is a challenge, and not a contest, we still want you to do your best...entries should be clear and well presented.

Entries close on July 27th, 2009.  (This gives everyone two weekends...).
Please email entries to hitty_martha @ yahoo. com  (take out the spaces first...)

Winner will be drawn at random after the challenge closes.  (See...no harsh judging or picking favorites...that's why it's a challenge and not a contest.)

"Suddenly I found myself lifted into the air by my waistband."
Michelle

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Kathleen W.

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Annie H.

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Vicki B.

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Sharon K.

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Sharon ?

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Becky

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Linny

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Linda F.

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Phyllis M.

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Phoebe sews Hitty initials on her chemise
Shirlene

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We gathered arbutus..
Elaine J.

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"He made me a sea chest to hold my possessions."
Gladys D.

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Vera A.

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Connie H.

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Nadine B.

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“I did not make much of a showing among the other dolls"
Denise H.

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"I did not make much of a showing among the other dolls"
Susan K.

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She sometimes felt she had entered a menagerie...
Tina W.

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He made me a sea chest to hold my possessions
Mary-K W.

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Marilyn L.

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Judy M. (not in drawing, just for fun)

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Dot M.

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Jan F.

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Karen H.

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After that, whenever he did portraits of little girls, I was pressed into service, and as Mr. Farley was an artist who traveled all over the country painting his pictures, my likeness must still be preserved in many places. Figuring as I did in so many canvases, I came in time to be quite a famous character in a small way.
Anita

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Kathleen B

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"All the flowers seemed to be trying to blossom at once".
Jill W.

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"I was transformed from a piece of mountain-ash wood only six and a half inches high."
Michelel B.

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"I fell free of them both, flat on my face in an unknown gutter."
Happy H.

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She kept me in a little old yellow rocker on her own writing desk and always
showed me to visitors as her MOST PRIZED DOLL
Becca

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April

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"....A piece of mountain ash is a good thing to keep close at hand...."
Tree

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"I was in her workbasket now, along with innumerable spools of thread,
Susan W.

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