Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Celina Myers' mom has collected miniatures since she was 14 years old. Their entire basement is filled wall-to-wall with tiny ...

It’s Sunday in a typical village in Venezuela. The Mass in the cathedral is over and the market square is packed. There are fishmongers and queso fresco vendors and a newspaper hawker and kids playing ...

There is something appealingly modest about miniature portraits. Small, intimate, they are often painted as keepsakes for a loved one. When it comes to royal miniatures the contrast between the grand ...

Miniature dollhouses became popular with European aristocrats in the 17th century It's adults who are collecting and paying top dollar for them The big surprise is that the doll market in general is ...

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If you’re looking for something fun and easy to expend your creative energy into that also helps you exercise precision, collecting miniature figurines might just be the right avenue for you.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Celina Myers. It has been edited for length and clarity. When I was a little girl, I remember having birthday parties at my house and taking my ...