Despite her present-day work, her artistic expressions actually didn't begin with sculpting.

"I was drawing from a very young age and was into art all through my school years before working as an illustrator for the car industry for 23 years. In 2000 I started creating fabric and clay dolls on a larger scale to sell at art fairs. I didn't attempt the smaller dollhouse scale dolls until 2007. By the next year I started selling my miniature dolls on eBay," said Karin.

Her 1:12 scale dollhouse miniature dolls are all one-of-a-kind sculpts from Super Sculpey© and Fimo© (sometimes a mixture of the two, depending on the effect she's after at the time) she then paints with Genesis heat set paints from her home in Novi, Michigan. Like many other miniature artists, a convenient spare bedroom has become her workshop - complete with a beautiful view of woods, her garden and a pond for inspiration from Mother Nature.

"Some of my dolls are wired so that their arms, legs and waists can move. I use viscose and sometimes lambs wool for hair. I carve their shoes from polymer clay and try to find small scale print fabrics and thin materials to dress them in. I will look in antique shops for old lace and trim," she explained.