A closer look at the amazing detail in the tiny layered cake.
Deri’s interest in miniatures began in her childhood when her father built a doll’s house for her and her younger sister. Complete with a red brick exterior, a white columned porch, and a lawn cut from a doormat, his creation had the effect of, in her own words, “igniting a lifelong love for doll’s houses and miniatures.”
Her childhood memories of her sister, and the hours they spent with their doll’s house, are priceless to her. “I told her stories of tiny people playing in our doll’s house, and living behind our real-life house walls.” she reminisced. “I did everything I could to make her believe it, including trying to stamp the tile walls behind our bathtub, with tiny footprints.