About 1 inch high and 3 inches long ...arrives in an attractive box with a signature card telling about the Hevener Collectible Figurines .... Like many of us as kids, I started my art collection with Miniature figurines sold as souvenirs at tourist attractions. For me, it was a souvenir and candy stand in the local park and it was my candy money that I used to buy a little glass figurine of a dog with her puppies, packaged in a cotton-filled box shipped all the way across the ocean from an island nation called Japan .... Remember, I was just a kid I believed somebody far away in a place called Japan had made the little dog just for me. I coudn't have a real dog at the time and I believed my little figurine came to life at night. A dreamer? Yes, I was. And, I still am. As the years went by, and as I studied in the North Museum of Natural History on the campus of Franklin And Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, I mastered the skills that officially began the collectible Hevener Figurines. Before I knew it (I'm kidding. It took a lot of knocking on doors of gift shops and hand-making figurines for tourists visiting the Pennsylvania Dutch Country) the Hevener Figurines were born. I was a figurine maker with my own studio! That, of course, was a long time ago, and, today -- along with my books and other things I love to make -- they call me a pretty good figurine designer. I want to thank all of the people who have collected my work through the years. And, I am writing this note to you from beautiful Brazil, which I visited during my travels and fell in love with so much that we are opening a new studio here. As an artist, something as small as a Figurine has shown me how great the world is, and I hope you treasure this hand-made work of art as much as I do. And, as a writer, well, you can find me listed on Amazon Books and you can see I am never (ever -- ever) at a loss for words! (And, yes, as you might guess, my novels are mostly about adventurous people who love their animals and I've lived just about everything I write about). Tchau (For Now) ... Ron Hevener, Sao Paulo, Brazil.