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lego, lego, and some lego

This is the freeform Lego castle Bee and I made on Friday. She wanted to build a castle for the twin unicorns I got her for Valentine's Day, and we had a few random castley bits in our Immense Bucket of Lego Joy, so we spent the afternoon building. Features include a jail with a barred cell, a grand patio type area with decorative tiles (actually tarot cards from our fortune-teller minifig) and lots of little arches and windows. Oh, and a special pet entrance for the Royal Cat, with a red roof.

 

Today, Bee and I started on our Lego ghost train. As we were tipping the pieces onto the floor to begin, she enthused "Wow, Mama - this is going to be WAY epic!"

 

cooking with Vader

heads held high, touch the sky, you mean everything to me...

"Can I have some chocolate, please, Mummy? By the way, you smell bad."
That girl needs to work on her diplomacy.

 

Bee took this hilarious and terrifying self-portrait, today.

  Look what came in the post today!!! My bestest is the very bestest who ever lived. 

And he deposited some rocks for me today, for the February Love Project.

 

it's that lady on my knickers

"Mummy! Look! It's that lady on your knickers!"
(she means WonderWoman. I have WonderWoman pants.)
Yesterday was a Dungeons and Dragons/ Lego day. I built a Lego spacecraft of some kind, we built a Megabloks Moshi Monster thing (Mega Bloks are pretty crappy compared to Lego, but it's a cute kit, and was on special offer) and we put together Bee's new Lego Darth Vader watch. She's been periodically announcing that it's "Darth Vader one o'clock" or "Darth Vader past three" all day.

I also made my little mini At-At (I have resigned myself to the fact that I'll probably never own THE Lego At-At) and I am actually mega excited right now, because my wonderful lovely Bestest has bought me the Lego VW Camper I've been mooning over for the last 18 months! Eeeek!!! I'm a very lucky girl indeed.

And today, we've been finishing off our rocks for the February Love Project, and I released my first one into the wild, tonight. Wonder if it'll still be there in the morning?

Bee: Mummy, will you get me a Valentine's card for Love Day?

Me: Yes, of course. I always do, because I love you.

Bee: Great. So I'd like a Darth Maul one please. But it has to be a Love Day card which says Valentines on it, and a picture of Darth Maul, OK?

    This random cat totally photobombed my origami swan photo.

Getting drunk on rum and attempting to follow complicated YouTube origami tutorials at 2am is not recommended. You know, just for the record. I used this tutorial for the awesome heart-bat. It probably would have turned out better without the rum, but the attempt may have been less amusing.

additional characters

Bee decided Archery Lady has to always ride on the Batmobile, to protect Batman.

 Beautiful suncatcher made for me by a friend. And their pet reindeer, Bruce.

 Megan G-Piggle, and Polly the formerly-talking parrot, who is about 20 years old.

rejoining civilisation

We're not sick anymore!!! Wahoooo!!!

Our first Lego Club meet happened on Sunday, and it was pretty epic. Lots of people came, there was a ton of geeky enthusiasm flying around, and a number of VERY excited children full of chocolate Lego pieces (I made them with novelty ice cube trays). I already can't wait for the next one!

And afterwards one of our friends, who is seven, taught me how to make paper water lillies. They just about rocked my world. Watch this video to see what I mean.

I also FINALLY managed to track down a Brian! Little things like this make me very, very happy.

  

So, OK: I'm ready for life again.Official.

poorly :(

We've been so sick for nearly a week :(
I painted my nails a dark orange colour to cheer myself up, and it worked a little.

 

And Izzy and I got a surprise parcel from the lovely Beth Doodlecats which cheered us up LOADS! :)

 Yes, that's kitty Lego!!

 

Bee and I spent the whole day snuggled under blankets on the sofa watching Charilie and Lola, and colouring Star Wars pictures. And I got a bit of knitting done when she'd gone to bed.

That's the epic Dr Who scarf I'm knitting for my bestest. It's going to take the rest of my life.

beginning

Hi. This is me.

And this is Bee. You're going to see a lot of her. She's awesome.