The Business End
All Small Miniatures: Owner's Love of Dollhouses Comes Through for Her Customers
As a girl growing up in Germany, Hildegard Popoff fell in love with small, delicate things. She's taken that passion and turned it into a business that she's run since the mid-1980s.
Walking in to the All Small Miniatures shop in downtown Frankfort is a bit like walking in to a fairy tale of sorts, what with its intricately designed dollhouse furniture and accoutrements. In fact, the passion for the miniature world of dollhouses that owner Hildegard Popoff possesses has its own fairy tale feel as well. Popoff grew up in Germany's Black Forest just before World War II, living with her widowed mother and brother. They had no TV or radio, so to pass the time together, Popoff's mother taught them to sew and do other crafts. "I have always loved little things. I've loved dolls, old things, little things, and it stayed with me all my life. ... I just like delicate, small things.," she said, adding that eventually as a child…
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