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Son finished the Eiffel Tower, with some help from his sister.

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Now here’s a merging of two obsessions of mine: it’s a Lego lighthouse.

Oddly enough, there are no official Lego lighthouse sets … except this one. This was a special giveaway set at the grand Lego store opening at Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley Mall. This set is a rare collectible. I didn’t get one of those, [...]

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Here is this year’s Halloween “Spooky House”, which I finally got around to photographing today. It’s based on an actual victorian Second Empire style mansion in Auburn, Maine. It’s guarded by an ogre and populated by a ghost, two skeletons, and some other freaks.

See more photos of this and a few other of my original [...]

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I haven’t built any Lego structures of interest for about a year. Daughter and I will get out the Lego sets on odd weekend afternoons while Son naps, but I just haven’t had the creative urge to build anything that requires any amount of planning. I built about 3 aborted vehicles. Then finally I decided [...]

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Georgian colonial style home, as one might find in New England. The boxiness and symmetry of this style makes it easy to render in Lego. More photos at MOCpages.

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Spooky house built for Halloween. This is not modeled after any actual style of house, more of a fanciful interpretation.

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