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Getting

to know

you...’ Viola williams

In this regular feature a brave AIM

member answers our probing questions, helping

you to get to know both them and their work a little bit better!

This month our willing victim volunteer is the well respected miniature artisan;

Viola Williams...

Can you tell us a bit about your life before Miniatures?

As a child my days always revolved around doing "projects." My mother said that as a preschooler I had a

small blackboard and piece of chalk, and that I loved to draw and that people were able to tell the

difference between my "houses" and my "barns". We lived on the farm at that time and would have been

around both buildings so it would not be surprising that I was able to draw them both to be

recognizable. I don't remember those days as I was very young

and dependent on my parents for their recollection of those

times. We left the farm when I was four or five years old

As time passed I continued to like to do creative things. As a

pre‐teen the neighbourhood girls and I would sit outside after

dinner and I would make up stories to tell. Later a new family

moved into the neighbourhood and their daughter took over the

story‐telling because she was so much better than I was. I

remember those days very well because it was such a pleasant

way to spend an evening. One neighbour had one of those

porch‐style swings. A large one that was built outside of the

house instead of on the porch. We girls would sit and swing and

sing. Sometimes I would just listen while they sang because I do

not have a good singing voice.

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