"I have always liked little things. I had the metal dollhouse when I was a little girl. Then, in my teens, I found some new miniature furniture at an antique shop. I set up a room box with it in the record storage area in my stereo. The stereo had a sliding door to hide my little world."

Along came marriage and kids, with no time or money for miniatures. Yet while there may have been no time, the hankering remained, and it was only a short while before she was back in the world of miniatures.

"I avoided a miniature store in a nearby town for what seemed forever, knowing that if I entered I would again create a little world. Finally I did enter that store and I have been hooked since. That was in 1996," she said with a chuckled.

Since then her workroom has seen quite a few transformations, starting out as a sewing room.

"I have what I call my workroom that's my space; it's actually the breezeway in my house. I love my room! This started to be my sewing room, where I made all three of my children's clothes for years. Then I got interested in machine knitting and it became my knitting room. I wrote two books on machine knitting and had a regular column for six years in a knitting machine magazine. And then came miniatures. I believe it has gone through its last conversion!"