Welcome to Mouse Mansion!
Over the past few weeks, Shaun and Phillippa have been secretly building a mansion in our HOME department. It has finally made its way into our windows, and the new inhabitants of Main Street St Boswells have a home!
Inspired by our current favourite picture book, 'Mouse Mansion with Sam and Julia' by Karina Schaapman, our version is designed around the little Maileg Mice that we sell in our bookshop. Dutch author and artist Karina Schaapman spent years building and furnishing the Mouse Mansion in which her collection of stories takes place. Each room depicted in this incredibly detailed book is inspired by stories from the artists childhood. The elaborate house is 6 feet wide, almost 10 feet tall and made from cardboard boxes and papier-mâché. Karina's mansion contains more than one hundred rooms to explore - our version may be a little smaller, but we like to think of it as more of a Scottish Tenemnet...
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