Exciting progress has been made on the Mouse House and I am happy to document the finished workshop. (“Finished” is just a turn of phrase–this thing will NEVER be done!)
Here is the empty workshop:
And here is the completed “first draft”:
The Mouse House Workshop
I’ve explained how I made the shop-vac in a previous post. Details about most of the other pieces in the workshop are in the captions of the following photographs:
The completed workbench. I built the table and the pegboard and added miniature tools I purchased at a garage sale as well as items I made myself, including the vice, the sandpaper storage, and the paint can. The stickers on the upper left of the pegboard are an homage to my dad, who always had interesting art and stickers in his workshop.
The vise attached to the workbench is built from items I found in my studio, including a shelf support from IKEA, a snap, scrap wire and beads.
The sandpaper storage unit is the top of a scrapbook tape dispenser.
I filled a tiny jar with snips of wire to simulate nails and glued it to the workbench.
Final additions to the workbench included scraps of wood, a dollhouse kit, an old paint can and a mug of coffee.
The paint cans were made with images pulled from the internet, cut into strips, and rolled with the label on the outside. I topped each of these paper rolls with foil lids and added paint to drip down each can.
Tool storage made with an old mesh tube with a button added at the bottom to form a container. The tools are from a garage sale.
The potting soil is used, dried coffee grounds glued into a pocket I made from a Potting Mix advertisement on the Target website.
The seed packets are also from internet images. They are tiny–1/4″ in width.
I thought the workshop was the perfect place to mount a fish!
The calendar hung to the left of the workbench was made for my husband. He loves ships and is fascinated by the Titanic.
The thermometer on the right wall, between the windows, was made in honor of my late father-in-law who loved Squirt. I found a vintage image online and resized it to scale. I then mounted the photo onto painted wood and made a 3-d thermometer to paste on top with layers of paper and with a pin for the mercury.
A bad picture of the finished thermometer.
Soooo…I’m moving on to another room tomorrow. I am having so much fun I completely lose track of time. Last night at 7:30 Andy came downstairs to ask about dinner plans. I was shocked as I thought it was only around 5:00!
To close, here’s a final photo with my beloved LaCroix can as a size reference:
JPT Unraveled 
I adore this and love all the pics of how you made so many cool tiny things❤️❤️❤️
So fun !!!
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