Karen Tadman makes a wide range of different miniature figures, including babies, toddlers and young children in twelfth, 1/24th and 1/48th scale. She also makes tiny toys and recently, after several years hiatus, she returned to making miniature sculpted teddy bears as well. When she started making miniatures, teddy bears were the first items that she decided to sell. This is how the name of her business was chosen.
When Karen was a child, she did not have a doll’s house, but her mother was exceptionally creative, so they always had craft items around to make things. They would make doll’s house room boxes for their tiny dolls out of cardboard boxes and then make furniture from things like matchboxes and popsicle sticks. Accessories were made from clay and Playdough.