Those LEGO Botanicals Sets Are The 'Bees Knees'

 This past Christmas, my wife was gifted with one of the Botanical flowers sets, No. 10342.

She just finished it up the other day, making this the first moderately large set she's put together to date.

It is completely amazing to me that the LEGO set designers have been able to come up with offerings that have such realistic looking flowers. If one stands six feet away from any of the floral stems, it is hard to tell that they are not real.

The missus owned and operated a flower shop in Colorado Springs back in the early 2000s, so she is no stranger to putting together beautiful flower arrangements.

Rather than taking this completed set and sticking them all in one vase, she integrated the individual stems into existing floral arrangements we have hanging around the house.

Here, several of the LEGO 'cuttings' became part of a tall vase arrangement along with dried and artificial stems. They blended in marvelously!

In this next photo, the two dark pink orchid stems from the set were added to a pot of very real orchids who's blooms are nearly an identical color. From a few feet away, it's hard to distinguish real from LEGO!

LEGO, keep em' coming!

LEGO Day At The TFTDDC Home

 Even though the lion's share of the LEGO building in the family is done right here at the TFTDDC household, the rest of the clan is made up of fairly avid builders as well.

Our youngest daughter, her hubby, and young seven year old grandson have instituted a January 1st  tradition at their home of  spending the entire day engaging in LEGO building.

They live in Texas, but drove up here to Colorado to spend the holidays, so the tradition has also been adopted here.

As soon as the New Year's breakfast table was cleared, out came the LEGO!

Most of us had new sets that we had acquired as Christmas gifts.  For those who didn't have a set to build, I provided a large box of mixed parts to build with.

My project was the LEGO Star Wars 'Wicket, The Ewok' set.

During the New Year's build session I managed to finish the model up through the 3rd parts bag.

Fun way to start 2026!