Sherry cannot remember a time when she didn't have a dollhouse as a child. She remembers the one her Mom and Dad built for Christmas when she was five years old. She peeked and saw them working on it when she was supposed to be in bed.  That was when she realized that who Santa really was. That was the one toy that she played with until she was too old to play with toys.  Her favorite thing to do was to load all the furniture into her brother`s big Allied Van Lines truck and drive it around the house. Then she would unload and re-arrange the furniture. In later years, her Mom bought her a house full of Petite Princess furniture and Sherry thought she hit the jackpot. Sherry kept that dollhouse for years until her sister in law took it out of storage at the farm and put it in a garage sale.  Sherry considers herself a "accumulator" of miniatures. She is always buying things that she thinks she can use to make minis. She loves building and decorating equally.  It is a challenge to see what she can do with each new house. She tries out different techniques, colors, and styles that she loves. She likes that this makes all her houses different. All the experimentation means they all have lots of goofs covered up with rugs, plants, and well placed pictures!  She loves almost every aspect of the build. She wishes she could hire out someone to do all the moulding, and she wishes she had an elf to put all her things away when she is done. I think we all wish that Sherry!

Sherry says that the first time she built a dollhouse, she was too ignorant to know that it was supposed to be hard. Her daughter in law was given the Duracraft San Francisco for Christmas with the promise that her Dad would build it. He painted one section of wall and that was it. She finally asked Sherry to do it. Since her hubby was in Washington D.C. for an extended stay, she was alone and bored. So she sat at the dining room table and started building. It was great fun. She didn't think she had any trouble with it because she was home alone with no one there to distract her. It has never occurred to Sherry that she could buy and build one for herself. Her first dollhouse kit was actually one that her husband bought and she found in the garage six months later. She decided that she might as well put it together. That was nearly two years and seven houses ago!

Sherry would love to win the lottery, stay at home, and work on minis all the time. She would also love to have a bigger craft room so she can make a bigger mess. She hope to complete the house she is working on now by this summer. She would also like to do more furniture building and accessory making. After all that, she wants to get her hubby to build the Taos house that she has been drawing plans for. She is still trying to get up the nerve to try electricity. She has read the horror stories. She knows that one day she will become brave, carry her house to her dollhouse buddy, and get him to help me put up lights. If Sherry had a favorite mini, it would be one of the things she "invented" herself, such as the Jacuzzi and shower stall in her latest build. She was able to start with an idea and figure out a way to make it. She says that it has been alot of fun for her than just buying things to put in a house. She has a feeling of accomplishment, even if it is not perfect! I think it is just wonderful Sherry.

Sherry has given away many of the houses that she as worked on. If she were to choose one to keep, it would happen to be the one she is working on at the time.  Sherry is like me in that she feels more pleasure in giving away her  houses to people. She knows they will enjoy them much more then she will having them in her possession.

Sherry is giving some wonderful advice to all the newcomers to our tiny hobby. She says that new builders should not be afraid to try new things. There is not much you can do to a house that cannot be fixed or disguised with well placed trim or houseplants. Until you get brave and start trying all those ideas you have, you are missing the best part of building/creating something that is all YOURS!

or participating as the Member of the Month, Sherry will receive a $25 gift certificate to the Greenleaf store.