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Friday, March 5, 2021
Major breakthrough with the little red bins!
Sentimental memories from lego idea book 6000
To this day, I think the 6000 lego idea book left the most impression on me. It was so amazing as a kid that there were so many legos and that they could make an entire world.. Now I look at the pictures and they take me back to the child years i.e. before school. Me and mom would run errands and grocery shop and play, then pick up my brother from school. Life was so simple and no worries, just play and it was good! The lego book 6000 kind of shows how small my little corner of the world was.
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
A journey of a thousand miles
Sometimes I remember when I was finishing college and volunteering in a hospital dept. How overwhelming it felt knowing the amount of schooling I knew I would need. At the end of the tunnel from the garage to the hospital there was another tunnel that led to the dept. Where i volunteered. There was a sign going the other way that said the well known phrase "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." And there was a person walking on the beach. That picture inspired me and made me chuckle because it took 20 mins from the car to walk where I needed to get.
When I go to build a giant set of legos, I'm always amazed at how the most complicated models begin with a single step, then another and another etc...the beginning looks nothing like the end product. Sometimes I have trouble seeing the finished product because the chaos of a pile of lego next to a developing creation. Sometimes I get too focused on the pile of chaos and feel overwhelmed. Yet at the end there is such a feeling of accomplishment and you look back wishing you could do it all over because it was enjoyable. All because you took a single step towards creating something. I need to remember that when I look at my lego room ..although I like having so many containers and things it feels overwhelming...but after an hour of organizing it starts to look so much better.
Screenshot from pinterest.de "lego gram"Monday, February 15, 2021
More observations on lego stereotypes
I have noticed just this year since November that target is getting more diverse and more expensive lego sets. The boxes are black to indicate the toys are for grown ups
So keep being creative and play well with your own passions and ideas even if you're young or older!
Thursday, February 11, 2021
France on the horizon!
The horizon express is a special set for me.
When I was in the lego store I just caught out of my ear a person saying "so thats a real train."
I got to live in France for a month in 1988 in a town called LA ciotat which is next to the tgv station...trans of great speed..or trains de grande vitesse (tgv)
Here is the station
So when I was at a lego store, someone asked if it was a real train and it was! I saw it!!!
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Cleaning my legos
I had a washer delivered and they turned the washer on but didn't stay to ensure the tubing was connected. The entire load of water drained on my lego room
You can see the water 💧 on the floor.
Not the first flood as the tube came off the washer 2 years ago dousing everything...here was my favorite box ruined
But the worst water damage was a slow leak from a spicket overhead. The last lego set my mom got me for Christmas got wet and ruined..
Similar to theseReplaced with a better solution by they plumber as seen below
My new theme song
B Spears has written "oops I did it again" and thats how I feel and what I think of when I go into my lego room and at the entrance outside. I start to get a handle on the mess, especially when I was off due to Covid and now I'm right back to chaos. How do I keep doing this??!!
Now this was June 2020
I had things so organized...I hope I can make time to get back to where I was!Thinking and sorting outside the box
So many times I've wanted to keep the boxes of lego sets I have convinced they'll make me a millionaire eventually
Open concept buildings
Compare the closed building without interior access