The healing journey of a widowed, unschooling badass in Delaware.
We love to visit Legoland Discovery Center during their Homeschool Weeks.
The highlight for my boys is the minifigure trading. They load up their fanny packs with minifigs and exchange with employees (and the occasional visitor) to refresh their collections.
I enjoy the chill atmosphere and relaxed building time.
Isaac started taking apart his space shuttle before we got to the car.
He’s been building like this his whole life, using loose bits to create something original.
His brother and I took his lead and made our own little models.
This is the second month that Lego Stores have been hosting free minibuild events since the Lockdowns.
I’m unclear about official sources for the Lego Store calendar, but Toys N Bricks has been a reliable source of information on sales and events.
I love the colors of this space shuttle and I’m amazed how this shape still fascinates people years after the shuttles were retired from use (I’m ready for a Concorde).
As we packed up our display for the 2022 Delaware Fun-A-Day show, I realized I hadn’t recorded and posted all of the builds.
These three were built by friends and family and helped our project stand out among more traditional media.
We’re all packed and ready for the big show.
I’m anxious about how to display all the builds, but excited to set it up and help with other presentations.
We’ve had some challenges lately and it was good to have friends over to build with us.
In this scene from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Stephano, Trinculo, and Caliban sneak towards a murderous plot. The first two drunken fools are distracted by a clotheline of fancy articles while Caliban loses his patience and rages against them.
We recently saw Delaware Shakespeare‘s production of The Tempest and I was inspired to recreate this scene.
Tom Alphin‘s The Lego Architect deserves most of the credit for this build. I started with his design for a neoclassical dome and thought I would modify it into a turtle shell.
As I pieced it together, I fell in love with the textures and shape. I was also pleased with how I could play with colors to create more visual depth.
I’m hoping to take what I learned from Alphin to work on my own dome design.
Although conceived as a land turtle, when I found these “flippers,” I couldn’t resist.
A salmon and orange underbelly finishes it off and brings in the brightness I initially planned to highlight the shell.
More play. I was inspired by my son’s monster movie scene to create a microscale city. While experimenting with different ways to create streets, buildings, and a coherent layout, I got caught up in the fun of the colors and simplicity of the shapes.
I was vaguely guided by Harry Bertoia’s sonambients, a couple of which we’ve witnessed at trips to Kentuck Knob. I feel the panoply of colors could easily translate into a cacophanous beauty, given a dose of magic.
