CDHM The Miniature Way iMag, Artist Profile, June/July 2010, Issue 6, Page 6

CDHM The Miniature Way
Featured Artisan
Pat Carlson
June/July 2010, Issue 6 CDHM Artisan Pat Carlson

Inspiration lurks everywhere, from old books to her garden. There are also several artists who inspire her. CDHM artisan Pat Carlson creating under the business name of Pat Carlson Miniature creates dollhouse miniature fairy dress boutique in 144 scale

"Barbara Raheb, Peter and Donna Thomas, Sara Alvarez and Ericka VanHorn for their beautiful work in miniature books. For fairy wings and cottages, I can't really say, they just seem to happen. Although I have to say that Aleah Klay gives me great inspiration with her incredible sense of fantasy and imagination," she said. CDHM artisan Pat Carlson creating under the business name of Pat Carlson Miniature creates dollhouse miniature fairy dress boutique in 144 scale

And of course it is always inspiring to know where some of your creations end up.

"The most exciting sale I've ever made was when I sold a set of "Wizard of Oz" books to the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum. He wrote me and said they were "Oz-some"! That really made my day!"

A copy of her miniature book "The Ugly Duckling" resides in the Special Collections, Reference and Instructional Services Dept., of Jackson Library UNC, Greensboro, NC and a version of her miniature yearbook is in Seth Poppel's museum of High School Yearbooks.

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