I was recently going through my backlog of photos looking for things I had photographed to put up in our shop when I came across last year’s Celebricktion event held to benefit The Drake House. That’s when I realized I never blogged about the event. Yikes! With Celebricktion 2015 only about 2 weeks out, I thought I
Sorry readers! I failed you! I mentioned a few posts back I was going to write to LEGO regarding the issues with mini build registration. I also encouraged you to write if you were not happy with the way things have rolled out. I’m sad to say, I never wrote that letter. I initially thought I
If you’ve been stopping by the website looking for the information on this month’s mini build, you may have missed my notice that children under 6 are no longer allowed to register for the event. This is why we haven’t posted information and build instructions for the September 2015 build yet. However, if you want
I’m a visual person. Photography pulls me in and Pinterest is eyecandy for me. I can lose hours… and I do literally mean hours… looking at things on Pinterest. Lately, I’ve been looking at LEGO trees… There are a lot of different techniques for building trees. You don’t have to feel restricted to using designated
When I created a baby room MOC for the Complete The Room challenge, I started looking more at the idea of LEGO microbuilds. I wanted to create toys for the baby room and obviously couldn’t make them on a larger scale. This was my first attempt at minifying objects and from where the idea for the
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, honors the contributions of American workers.The Department of Labor says it is “a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being
It’s here! It’s here! Happy Force Friday LEGO Star Wars Fans! The new LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens sets are finally released! But before I show you pictures of the sets and how to purchase them, I wanted to give you some visual goodness with some cinematic LEGO art from the Macro LEGO Universe
Have you been waiting for your local LEGO store to swap out the Pick-a-Brick model on the wall? Ours finally has and if you are local to Atlanta, you can now go back to the store and pick up the LEGO Pick-a-Brick Mini Jeep build. We went to the store this weekend to sign the
We buy a ton of used LEGO bricks. As you can imagine, they come with plenty of germs and some we wonder what the previous owners were doing with the bricks that they are just so *nasty*. So we clean used LEGO bricks before we use them. If you visit the LEGO website, they recommend the following:
You are probably here because it’s the first of the month (or close enough) and you are looking for information on the next LEGO monthly mini build session, right? Have the LEGO Monthly Mini Build registration problems come to a head for you? You’re not alone. With numerous issues of people missing out on registrations because