To help her on the way to that lofty goal Colvin has a kind of mentor in another sculptor as well as admiring the old sculpting masters, Bernini, Carpeaux and Rodin.

"I love to look at the old masters for faces and figure movement. I also love the work of Camille Claudel, though she is a sculptor and not a miniaturist. Her figurative work is poetry in 3D. There is a sculpture in particular of hers named 'Clotho' that has always been my favourite. It is an old woman rendered in plaster."

At some point in the future she would like to work on more miniatures than just her dolls.

"I would like to finish my colonial basement tavern. It's been in the design phase for five years now!"

"My ultimate goal as an artist is to evolve. I always want to try new ways of seeing objects and interpreting them. Taking a doll workshop in a different medium would be great and I would like to learn to use paper clay. I have seen some exquisite work in that medium. I would also love to teach a workshop some time," she said.

Just as long as there is someone to proof read any hand outs for the class so an unfortunate pattern experience is never repeated.

"My computer spell check failed to safeguard me on one of my pattern instructions as I had omitted the letter "r" in the word "shirt" on one of the instruction sentences. I was horrified! I suppose the spell check was right, that is a word, though not one someone would want to publish!"