A tub is a great idea for the van ZF! Might have to organise me one of those too.
I actually don't have much success with tables (but my kids are happy to pull their creations apart over and over). Holly is a climber and lego is slippery and ouchy when you climb on it. When I was a kid mum used to spread out a doona cover and all lego had to stay on there. When we were finished she'd just scoop it all up and pour it back into it's crate. It works here too. Even the baby goes around and scoots the bits back on that have come off lol.
some of the stuff can be rather exxy when you go down the path of character stuff, not necessarily just lego - all across the board. We had a Tinks bday for dd this year - some of the tinks stuff i was looking at was stupidly exxy when compared to non-character stuff
Gosh, isn't it?!
Was just pottering around on ebay and had a sqizz.
I thought i was onto a winner last night with amazon. They had a deal with the Friends Highschool, pool and cruiser for $180....but they don't ship here
However, just managed to online laybuy them all at Target for $186
Well done Kim! I so want the dolphin cruiser. I went to Kmart before work but they'd sold out I was going to go to Big W at lunch time but might try Target instead. It's closer & I have gift vouchers I can use.
I saw in the coles catalogue that they will have some of the friends mini-sets for $5 each from tomorrow.
The cruiser is awesome. The school is pretty good (and more gender neutral). Dd sold some of her clothes to a friend from work so she could go and buy more Lego. I was going to let her get a couple of small things and dave the rest of the money for the cruiser (it wasn't due out for a couple of weeks at the time). Went in to Lego shop and it and the school had arrived that morning!
Contemplating buying her a small set today. She has even awesome taking care of me while I was sick. Will depend on whether she is good when I go to quack this arvo (hate when you know you have a virus and nothing dr can do bit you still have to go for a med cert!)
Dd was rewarded for being such a good poppet while we've been sick. She was awwwwsome at drs. And there were many people being totally feral that she could have fed off. So we stopped and got Lego on the way home. Roadster creator set. Gave her a budget of no more than $20. She chose the one daddy showed most interest in lol
She wants us to put it together but I feel like death warmed up. DH notice better. So we are laying in top if our bed, sharing a blanket and watching fraggle rock . Ok i should correct that. Dd is watching fraggle rock. Dh is rubbing his head and trying to doze. And I'm talking Lego with you lot.
I know I should be nice and help dh. But I'm kinda enjoying sitting back watching him swear cos he normally doesn't do them. He makes me do it. So bwahahahaha in gonna sit here and snigger at him hehehe
DH came home all excited this arvo - he's bought DS a Friends Bambi miniset from Coles! Haven't given it to DS yet, but DS is either Lego or Bambi obsessed, so he's gonna pee his pants with excitement when he sees it, lol!
So, last night DS refused to carry his books back to the bookshelf or his milk cup to the sink (he does one or the other every night), then refused to move....we ended up saying if he didn't do one or the other that we'd take away a toy he reeeeaaaaalllly liked. 'Lego?' he asks. We nod and he goes into complete meltdown, but still refused to take either the book or the cup. We do our usual, count to three, but still nothing, so DS lost all his Lego for the day.
Fast forward to this morning and I had the nicest little boy anyone could imagine. He decided he'd pack up ALL his train set(200pc), by himself ('Will that get me my Lego back?'), helped out with everything I asked and tidied every toy he played with, no problem. I held out til after lunch....you should've seen his grin when he got his Lego back!!
How does everyone store the minisets? Keeping each one separate is a bit much for such small stuff, isn't it?
I have each set in a small container. We buy the bulk packs of those sistema click lock containers and they inevitably come with at least a couple of the 100ml packs - perfect for mini sets! And useless for anything else apart from sprinkles in the pantry lol
We have about a dozen of them on the go. One has brick seperators in it. Each of the friends animal sets is in one. Couple of the little friends sets too. Haven't gone out with the intention of buying that size. They were just part of the packs so we use them
Sounds like your household is not having much fun atm BG. Hope you all feel better soon. Yay for your DD!
Well I did it. I got the dolphin cruiser set. I didn't get it at Target in-store as they had sold out but got it online. Just have to wait for it to arrive & go & collect it. No rush as I think it would be a bit much even for DS yet.
JLeigh - I put DS's mini set in a snap lock bag and put it back in the box. I would imagine that it will eventually work it's way into the bulk lego but for now, while it's new, I'll try & keep it separate. We got an extra 7 pieces in that set. Is that normal?
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I was going to go to Big W at lunch time but might try Target instead. It's closer & I have gift vouchers I can use.
. Ok i should correct that. Dd is watching fraggle rock. Dh is rubbing his head and trying to doze. And I'm talking Lego with you lot.
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