And the Red Bricks Are Sorted!!!!!

I guess I took an almost 2 month hiatus from Lego, which isn't uncommon for me because I tend to phase through hobbies. The last stretch was a combination reading and video games venture. Still doing the reading, but the gaming has gone down quite a bit. But that's great because now I'm back in to Lego again full steam ahead.

Today, I spent almost the entire day sorting my pieces. I have altered things from my last sorting blog. I did end up getting the sorting cabinet I think I mentioned but I haven't bought any more of them because I wanted a better idea of what items I'd actually need cabinets for. That can only be known after I've built all my sets. So, it was back to sorting. Today, I can proudly say that I have sorted all of my red bricks. The red is probably the 3rd largest color I have with black and white tying for first place. I do have other colors sorted in to them but I finally got to the end of the red bin. I felt quite accomplished.

My cats cry every time I'm in the Lego room and today that actually found their way in as the door to the room is a sliding door and can be easily pushed inward allowed for space. I started to freak out a bit but this time I just let them come inside. Surprisingly, they actually weren't all that interested in the bricks. They seemed to mostly just want to be there with me.

Trying to help me sort.

She started to attack a pile of ladders so I had to move them and give her something to distract her

A lot of excitement is coming this summer in the world of Lego. I am particularly excited about The Fairground Mixer. I totally want to do a theme park and this would be a great addition. The other one is the Lego Creator Bike Shop & Cafe. This one I am definitely buying 3 of so I can do the main build and the two alternate builds. I won't be able to get them all at once probably but eventually I will. So excited!

I did build a set a while back that I took pictures of but I didn't like the pictures and my little pictures area kind of got maimed by my cats, they tore down the cloudy paper. So, I'm working on that. Hopefully I'll have something of interest up soon. Other than that I have 3 other sets still to build that are newer to showcase, one I just bought a couple days ago because I had some extra money and there was a sale on Amazon.com.

I am starting to make big plans though for usage of space for my set up. I live in a small mobile home (a single-wide) and I know my back room is going to be too small to hold everything I want to do. My landlord had converted the outdoor porch into an enclosed garage area and I'm trying to figure out ways I can utilize that space and protect it against the elements because it's a lot of space and I'd hate to see it go to waste. I was also at work on Friday and thinking about how I wanted to use the expanse under my tables for part of the set up but it would be really dark  under there and then I got an idea. I could get plug in under cabinet lighting to install underneath the table and lo and behold, my job I work for Build.com has some plug in under cabinet lighting. So, I'm super stoked about getting everything going.

Anyway, I guess that's it. Happy Building!

Just wants to hang out

Sorting Strategies

I haven't updated in a while, I got kind of busy about mid February and I kind of hit a wall with my building. I have still have a massive amount of parts that seem particularly impossible to sort through to build my sets. Thankfully, after seeing The Lego Movie and from a post on The Brick Blogger posting about the movie in the comments section, I was put it in the right direction. In the movie toward the end in the Dad's basement, I saw all these wonderful storage bins with drawers commonly used for tools that I thought would be perfect. In fact the size as pace of the whole set up would be magical to have, but more realistically, I needed those shelves. I've seen other kinds of shelves and they are made of a hard plastic and are rather expensive. I voiced these thoughts on that linked entry and the admin said that the shelving was quite easy to find at any department store. So, I did a search at Walmart and found the Stack On 60 Drawer Cabinet. I got paid and was getting ready to order one when they were out of stock online. So I googled it and found the manufacterer's website listing and there actually was a review from a Lego collector, so I knew it was perfect. Then I found a listing at Kmart.com for it and saw that I could actually order it and pick it up that day and it was $6 cheaper than Walmart's price. Unfortunately, my store only had one and I have since then been unlucky at getting more from Kmart at their current even cheaper price because they cancelled my order when I tried due to lack of stock. But they can be found all over the internet at varying prices and in varying different drawer counts. So, the way has been made to get this sorting done! Part of me is almost betting that as soon as I get all this ready, I'll have to move, which actually wouldn't be too terrible if I got to move where I want to move, which is back to this great apartment complex that had very spacious two-bedroom units that would be perfect for my set and my room and provide ample living room space and space for my cats. But they are $250 per month than I'm paying for rent now so I'll have to wait a while before I can handle that. Hopefully I"ll qualify for a raise in August that could contribute to that situation becoming a reality.

To help with my sorting project, I'm also making stickers for the drawers so I know what's in them. I've been finding the part listings at Bricklink.com and getting the thumbnail image to print on sticker paper.

And then these stickers can be stuck to the front of the different drawers in the unit. I was going to complete all 60 drawers today but as hinted by the paw in this picture, my cats kind of got in the way. They were crying to come in or for me to come out of the Lego room. Also hinted in this picture is the next set I'm going to post on the blog which I would do with this entry but I think I like separating the sets, I wish I had done that in my previous entry but as you can tell I'm a noob at Lego and a noob at Lego blogging, so there will be some trial and error. Anyway, I hope I've helped someone with storage and sorting ideas and look forward to showing you one of my newer sets that I got for a really good deal recently.

Happy Building ^_^