Marie fell in love with miniatures in the early 90’s after visiting her first miniature show in Montreal, Canada. 

She immediately started making plans to build a dollhouse for her then 2-year-old daughter Elizabeth. 

Marie is of West Indian heritage and wanted the inhabitants of her house to represent her family so that her daughter could identify with them.  To her great disappointment she found that most of the dolls available to her were Caucasian and therefore did not resemble Elizabeth at all.  The only Black dolls on the market in Montreal were vinyl and not very attractive.  She wanted beautiful Black children to play in her house.

Marie, never one to let a little thing like not knowing the first thing about kilns stop her, went out and purchased a kiln, ordered molds from House of Caron along with suitable ethnic colored porcelain slip and proceeded to experiment.

After several (not to say many) disasters she finally got the hang of it and discovered that she had quite a talent for doll making.  She especially loved china painting the faces on her toddlers and children, giving each a different yet adorable look.

As her friends and the members of the miniature club to which she belonged saw her dolls they were eager to have one of their own and encouraged Marie to try her hand at starting a business.

Her business is named after her most prized possession… her daughter, Elizabeth Alexandra.