I’ve been finding building LEGO sets relaxing and they also make great gifts. I received the LEGO Ideas Mineral Collection for Christmas 2025 and started building it January 3, 2026. The 880 piece set took me four days of on and off building to complete. What attracted me to this set was the amethyst, which […]
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This was my first build of 2026. I received this LEGO Creator Race Plane set as a gift from my daughter. My hope was that we would build this together, which we did for a tiny bit. I started this build on Jan 1st and finished on the 2nd. Being a 3-in-1 set, I went
While in Calgary last August my sister and family generously gifted me a LEGO set for my birthday entitled The Great Wave by Kokusai. This set is part of the LEGO Art theme and the first of this theme of I have done. Additionally making this build a first for me was that there was an audio
Today I got my new desktop computer set up and once up and running wanted to get back to blogging as I have a backlog to catch up on. I was feeling brave though and made some additional setting changes in my cPanel, due to one of the health issues being flagged around my outdated
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I am a big support of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics), which likely doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has even had a brief encounter with me. My love of STEM goes back as far as I can remember. Which is why I was excited to see this LEGO set being released
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This post was a long time coming, as I completed this lovely build on March 13th. I received this set as a gift for my birthday from my family. I enjoyed this build and with 493 pieces it took a couple relaxing sessions to complete. Reading the nuggets of information throughout the build that LEGO
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On February 15th I was able to continue building my lighthouse. This started with Bag 11 which was the assembly the the cabins roof. I really liked the look of the roof with the chimney on one end and the added touch of smoke coming up like a cozy fire is on. The front has
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On January 25th made progress on the cabin and the surrounding area by adding in the railing, bricks around the corners, door and putting on the door itself. I also mounted the fish which helps anchor the cabin by going into the lighthouse. The building itself clicks into the yellow circle piece on the base.
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