BY PAM NORTH
Sarah Santosa has been in love with mini things for as long as she can remember. “My childhood was spent constructing small worlds in my closet, using my imagination to transform shoe boxes into mansions, and bottle caps into platters for decadent treats,” she shared. “When I was 10, a doll’s house shop moved into town and offered a youth class, so I soaked up all the knowledge I could there. Later, as a teen, I worried that minis weren’t ‘cool’, so I let the passion subside. My college set design and architecture programs brought me back into the land of model-making, and I couldn’t resist the pull of doll’s houses, so I have kept building ever since.”