Welcome to my website!
   Many of you who have seen my dolls on eBay might wonder who I am. This website gives me an opportunity to introduce myself.
   My doll-making background is a little surprising because I am not a doll-making instructor or award winning artist. I was a nurse who happened to love dolls just as you do.
   A Japanese born and raised in Japan, I met my wonderful American husband in 1989. We were married and had a son there. After we moved to Reno in 1997, I was busy establishing my new life in this new country and didn't think about dolls till recently.
   When I was a little girl, I always had many dolls because I was the only girl in my family. Dolls were my sisters and my friends. As I grew older I gradually forgot about dolls. One day I saw a beautiful little angel doll at a gift shop in the hospital where I was working. That was the beginning of my doll collecting days. I spent a lot of my time searching for just the perfect doll, but I realized that it was very hard to find. By chance, I found there was a local doll-making class, so I signed up in 2000. That was the start of my doll making.
   At first, I was only interested in modern dolls and did not know anything about antique dolls. One day as I was looking through doll books at my doll teacher's house I spotted a picture of a doll that fascinated me. It was a picture of a Bru Jne Doll. When I saw her beautiful face and lavish costume, I could not believe she was more than 100 years old!
   I wanted to make a doll just like her, but I didn't know much about history of the Bru dolls. So, I gathered information from books, the internet, anything to give me an idea about the dolls. I purchased a Bru mold and kiln to start making my own Bru Jne dolls, but it wasn't very easy. It's very difficult to capture that certain look. I kept making more Bru's till I was satisfied. Then I realized I was running out of space in my house with all those dolls. As a result, in the spring of 2004, I decided to list my dolls on eBay to find a good home for them. I still remember that exciting moment when I sold my first doll!
   I had no idea what people would think about my dolls because I had never entered my dolls in any competitions. With regard to doll making, I'm mostly self taught: I make dolls on my days off between my full time job as a nurse. It's a kind of therapy to me to create dolls after working long, stressful hours. Doll making takes me back to my childhood when I didn't have to worry about anything and just dreamed about fairly tales and beautiful places I'd never been.....