When I picked up the two boxes of LEGO bricks for Mr. Family Brick’s birthday, we realized we needed a better system to organize our collection. So at 10pm on a Sunday night, we decided to re-organize. Our initial collection was sorted by color. All the blues with blues, all the greens with greens, etc…
Category: Behind The Family Brick
Mr. Family Brick’s LEGO Birthday!
Today is Mr. Family Brick’s birthday. (Happy Birthday honey!) Since we scraped the building of the Green Grocer for now, we decided we would try to build the Fire Brigade. So, for his birthday, I spent hours on BrickLink.com, looking for some of the missing pieces (mainly tiles and plates) that have had him stuck
Selling our spare LEGO bricks
I may have mentioned it previously, but we buy lots of LEGO from CraigsList. It’s how we feed our obsession and play and build the things we want. The only issue with this is sometimes we get too much of one type of brick. Or we get bricks we just wouldn’t use. Not to mention,
Our Nemesis… The Green Grocer!
We’ve been wanting to build the LEGO Creator Green Grocer for quite some time now. However, it is a discontinued set and as most of you know, a discontinued set increases in price the older it gets in the LEGO world. We’ve found the LEGO Creator Green Grocer on Amazon for $999. We’ve also found the LEGO
LEGO Store Will Babysit…Not!
I’m not sure if anyone really ran across this article a week or two ago, but the Consumerist wrote about a mom who left her kid at her local LEGO store for 90 minutes while she went shopping… LEGO stores are fun and amazing places for children, collectors, and for human beings in general. However, there
What’s Behind The Name Change
Let’s be honest here… LEGO is expensive and I was hoping if I wrote about LEGO on a blog just about LEGO, I could use affiliate links to bring in a little bit of income to purchase more LEGO sets. This blog is to enable my LEGO habit. However… I failed to read the LEGO affiliate program terms
We Build LEGO… The Beginning…
When I was a little girl, I never had any LEGO. I remember having a Barbie doll, whose hair I managed to cut off thinking she would look good with a short haircut. There was a Disney record player and a Mickey Mouse Disco LP that was played over and over and over again. But