The Good Parts

So, if you follow me on Facebook, you'll know that I spent the last few months working on something truly unique. Well not at the beginning of the build but definitely during it. I am talking about my Lego Simpsons house (or technically it was the cheaper "Lepin" version as the real Lego ones retail for £200+ and I got my Lepin kit for less than half of that). I really wanted the Simpson's house from the moment I saw it (The Simpsons was something we watched a lot growing up) and even though I had a cheaper alternative, I was very happy.

So the day it arrived in a big box (containing no less than 50 bags of bricks) I was immediately immersed in building. The original version took me about 2-3 days to do but I wasn't happy with a few things, mainly layout and noticed that there were some rooms that were not in the design. In particular, the whole front of the house wasn't really accessible and seemed to mainly be focused on 2 rooms. It needed a lot of reworking. So I started at the bottom and kind of built on the fly a bit.  I think the longest part was planning the shape and devising a floor plan, making sure it all fit together and increased the little details that were so lacking before.

I opted to have a hinge so that it opened out and lift out trays upstairs, each featuring one of the bedrooms with little features like Marge and Homer having a separate bathroom/ensuite set up and the other bathroom respectively. I also managed to recreate Bart's treehouse, a little back yard BBQ set and both the red and pink cars. I still have 3 assorted crates of Lego left for furture builds, so you may want to stick around for those.

I've also been drawing more. Thanks to a new TCG game we've started playing based on our very favourite "robots in disguise" so there's that to look forward to as well as some ideas for MMD videos (MikuMikuDance animated videos are great fun). But I am currently saving to get a new laptop for that as mine, well it's given up the ghost it seems and gone to the great office in the sky. It's kind of sad because I've had that one for 6 years and it's been company for me during some admisspns. But it was starting to slow down and not work as well anymore, these things never last forever but I do try and get a few years life out of what I have.

It's also been 4 years since I met a certain encouragable little guinea pig who I'm very happy to say is still healthy, happy, chatty and generally his usual crazy self. Yugi is our senior pig now. Actually I think having the two younger pigs in with him has kept him lively and happy. He plays a very definite "big brother" role with Marik and Bakura (who towards the middle of the month we'll have had them for a whole year), particularly little Bakura who follows him everywhere, not unlike how Alphonse would follow Patch around. It's both amusing and so cute to watch them together and then watch as Bakura starts to popcorn about excitedly squeaking his little head off. I love guinea pigs because they're so quirky and full of character, after 10 years of keeping them, I'm still to meet any 2 who are the same, so much for people saying there's no personality to small animals.

Maybe having a pet is part of what keeps me going when I feel as crappy as I have over the recent weeks. Along with, of course, friends and family. I'm lucky. I have so many wonderful people and creatures around me that know how to pick me up when I feel down. It's cliché to say it, I know.

Loves
Wendy xx