When Judy Kincaid was growing up she saw a beautiful dollhouse in a Chicago museum. It inspired her to build her own dollhouse and furniture out of cardboard boxes and paper. “I always thought they were magic,” she says. About 20 years ago, when her daughter received a dollhouse kit as a present, Kincaid got hooked. She began attending miniature shows and taking classes. Four years ago she purchased Brooke Tucker Originals, an established Palo Alto miniature business that produces decorative accessories such as doll-sized picture frames and the teensiest lipstick tube you’ve ever seen.
Between the company and teaching miniature classes, she’s got a nearly full-time gig. Her to-scale Garden Room (above), a perfect fit for a six-inch person, would be purchased as a three-dimensional work of art by miniature lovers, who frame such single rooms as if they were pictures.
Courtesy Judy Kincaid
