Hi! Welcome to my website! Being a mini-person myself (all 4'10" of me), I suppose it's natural that I'd be fascinated with miniatures. I figure if I live to be 85, I'll actually be using the furniture I build and the clothes I make! In reality, my love affair with miniatures dates way back to when I was a 6 year-old and my parents took my brother and me on vacation to Washington, D.C. There, we toured the Smithsonian and I was hooked when I saw the dollhouse (on) display. On the table was mini flatware, there was a mini phone and teeny-tiny vases filled with itty-bitty flowers, miniscule rugs covered the floors, and on the walls were mini pictures. I was enthralled! But I never had a dollhouse of my own. To this day, I STILL don't have that dollhouse, but it's okay. My fascination now is with making things to put IN that fantasy dollhouse.

After 2 decades of working in the music business, I finally realized my dream of retirement 2 years ago (yay!) and began to devote much of my time and energy to my long-held passion, the making of miniatures. Years ago, I started with an X-acto knife and balsa wood, first creating a chest of drawers with actual working drawers (wow! I amazed even myself!), and my future path was set. Through the years, I read and studied and experimented, being inspired and humbled by the creations of master miniaturists Harry Smith, Donald Buttfield, Paul Runyun and Virginia Merrill. But I still have, and treasure, that tiny chest!

For so many years, it was country music artists rather than miniaturists who consumed most of my time. As head of publicity for a major record label, my duties included garnering press for Shania Twain, Billy Ray Cyrus, Toby Keith, Kathy Mattea, The Statler Brothers, The Kentucky HeadHunters, Johnny Cash, and a plethora of others. As exciting and rewarding as that career was, I was more than ready to retire and spend my days in my long-dreamed-of workshop (which has become a reality).

I've come a long way since that little balsa chest. These days, I work with mahogany, walnut, cherry, maple and other woods and my X-acto knife competes with power equipment and lots of tiny tools. I make furniture using full-size joinery techniques and pride myself on my tiny turnings. I make silk ball gowns fit for a queen and wonder how our feminine predecessors ever moved at all, weighted down as they were by yards and yards of material and frou-frou trimmings!

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you've found something you just can't live without! If you don't see that special something here, email me and maybe I can create it for you! But please come back. I'm always here in the shop, and who knows what new things I'll come up with for your next visit!