Computer Jar Roombox

Marlies' Creative Universe

After making the floppy disk room box while washing dishes I had an idea of using an empty jar to make micro roombox. My jar has a diameter of 3½ inches and is about 4 inches tall. My figure and furniture is about 1/24 of human scale.

How I made it

• From an Ikea catalog I found the desk I was looking for.
• I scanned it and reduced it in my graphics program and made it look like wood.
• I did the same with the chair.
• Then I printed it out on light cardboard paper and cut it out and laminated the desktop.
• I left the chair the way it was.
• Next I glued the pieces onto thicker cardboard.
• For the legs I used round toothpicks. The desk's legs are 1-inch tall and I used some triangular bead with a larger hole to stablize the legs.
• The chair's legs are ¾-inch tall.
• For the computer I used the design on Jim's
• Printable Minis page . The mouse pad is a piece of blue craft paper and the mouse is a 1/8-inch hole punch from white craft foam.
• I was trying to figure out what to use for the floor. So I went on search and ended up at a marble site used the pattern I found there. I also laminated the top of the floor to make it look all shiny. The floor is a 2½-inch circle.
• To give me more wallspace I decided to place the desk in a corner and have a wall. As this is for my son who has just returned from New York after living there for 2 years I thought it would be neat to have that as the view. On the outside I used French Posters that my son likes.
• Next I had to create some figure to sit at the computer. I used a chenille stem as the armature.
• To raise the whole scene I cut a 1½-inch ring from a cardboard tube and covered it with black felt and then wrote the name of the scene on a piece of paper and glued it around it.