Article on miniature doll artist Cheri DeGruccio.
Cheri DeGruccio makes dolls. But not just any dolls. She makes tiny dolls. Make that teeny dolls. Actually they are teeny-tiny dolls.
To give you a sense of size, know that you could hold a whole bunch of them in your hand. Some of them are 1½ inches. That would be a big doll. Others are far smaller.
And she makes them all by hand using clay and paint and seemingly endless patience. Then she throws them in the oven. She also makes their clothes, which she admits is not her favorite part.
“I was at a bookstore and for some reason a book caught my eye,” DeGruccio said from the Cave Creek home she shares with her husband. That book was Family and Friends in Polymer Clay by Maureen Carlson and it detailed the process of making clay figures.
DeGruccio got into the sub-specialty of what’s known as doll-house miniatures. As the name suggests, these are dolls small enough to fit into a dollhouse.
As a child, DeGruccio had a dollhouse that her grandfather built for her. When she was 18, she started making doll-house miniature furniture.
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