I’m a hard core dopamine dresser and I have a few pairs of Rollies so I opened it. To find this. “We aren't afraid of a bold life, we look for beauty in everything, we have a camera roll always full of fun and nonsense, and whether head-to-toe or just a pop, there's always colour.”
Um Rollie is the colour in the room with us????
I love building these super abstract art pieces so much… but after this I basically have no wall space left, which is a tragedy 😩
He got into chocolate while we were out at dinner last night but I’m not sure if that’s directly responsible for all that followed… this silly sausage has got into choccy before and it’s had zero effect on him 🤦🏼♀️ We got home at around 8pm and he was totally fine, dancing around to welcome us like normal. I did notice him go in and out a few times but he came in at around 11pm and I immediately knew something was wrong. He had foam around his mouth and he was massively bloated and his breathing was off. Rushed him to the emergency vet who said he was the smallest dog they’d encountered with that level of bloat and that he was at risk of his stomach twisting on itself. Fortunately they were able to stabilise him and avoid surgery (the vet called me at 1.30 to let me know which was the best call) and then pumped his stomach by this 8am this morning he was ready to go home. Guess who’s acting like nothing ever happened, including begging my husband for the dinner he was making tonight??? 🤦🏼♀️ I’d ask if dachshunds ever learn but I think we all know the answer to that. So happy birthday Lenny but please don’t scare us again like that!
Also I’m still in touch with the mums of his two brothers (the trio are Harry, Barry and Lenny, all named independently 🤣) and they also got up to mischief this year… silly sausage brothers
Finished building and lighting the Brick Bank last night. Without the lights the vault/washing machine setup would have been my favourite but I just can’t get over how good the chandelier looks lit up! This is one of the most detailed LMB sets I’ve done… I never would have thought of the flashing red light on the vault, the yellow light over the safe or the blue light on the washing machine sign on the laundromat (I changed this from flashing to static) but without a ‘back’ area to run the docks to the flip side is really messy exposed dock wiring (& less light shining through the green and yellow bricks). I absolutely love the manager’s dark green office although I was surprised he didn’t get the fire, being superior and all that 🤣 The whimsy of the money laundering/bank robbery is just brilliant, my husband is actually a bank manager (with a far less fancy building) and he had fun pointing out all the security flaws 🤓
I would actually love to add an extra floor but was surprised there’s only one mod option for that on rebrickable and it covers the entire area so defeats the purpose of the chandelier. I’m not great at MOCs so will have to see what I can think of.
If you’re looking to add lights to your modular collection you will save a bomb lol… I bought four kits and a few light components and spent $520 (ouch) but saved $200 (win). I’m building the brick bank at the moment and have the detectives office in my backlog, and I’m planning to get the police station and diner later in the year so I decided to get kits for all 4, better to pay up now than pay full price later on. My all accounts they rarely have sales so run! lol.
(No not an ad lol lol)
And can we talk about how insane that is? So much focus goes on Hester but the same actor plays Masterman, Spilsbury, the Captain, Willie Watkins… they are all such different personas and somehow these geniuses pull it off. Jak has said he was thrilled to get the Hester track because he loved the multi roleing.
The Golden is not golden right now, send good juju!
The rundown…
Jessi (Jean) has been out for 7+ weeks due to an unspecified injury. Her understudy Lexi has covered all of those shows (not the norm for Mincemeat whose principals do 7/8 shows) with the exception of Gerianne giving her a weekend’s break. No eta on when Jessi will be back.
Julia (Monty) hurt what she thought was her leg but actually appears to be a bruised spine (!) in the finale last week and has been out since, with doctors orders to stay out until she goes on holiday on the 11th… so Gerianne is now holding the fort as Monty.
Then Amanda (Bevan) posted that she did a matinee with a mild concussion and the latest is that her understudy Allison shared she’s on for the next two weeks as Amanda heals.
So we currently have a situation where 3/3 of female the understudies are on for at least the next week and a bit, leaving Cassie Austin as the only female cover in the building. She was brought in ahead of the tour because of the situation with the main cast but I believe has only rehearsed the Jean track so far 😭 it’s stressful just following the updates from afar, I can’t imagine what it’s like for those involved with the show! And the two UK casts weren’t faring much better for a while there with actors in hospital and a 4 cover West End show, including one brought in from the tour as well.
It reminds me of WW’s “did they tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing” or as as u/notclassykaty said brilliantly in the Grosses thread ‘Someone in the cast must have walked under a ladder, tripped over a black cat, and fallen into a mirror and shattered it”
This was definitely a process… started out being offended by the pink flowers which went with literally nothing so changed them to red. Then decided the whole base would look better in dark red than dark orange so waited forever for a pick a brick order then was able to make that switch. Then the awning looked ridiculous so I played around with a few colour combinations (in hindsight I wish I’d ordered two more gold bits). With the awning gone the yellow flowers didn’t work so changed for a variety of blues and red… oh and a long time ago I’d changed the pink and lavender flowers on the rooftop garden to be red, yellow and green so they were changed too. Switched out the grey cones for gold. Then I decided the big sale sign didn’t match the vibe at all so took that off and got creative with a replacement. All in all I love it so much more and while I was a bit worried about it sitting next to the Jazz Club I think they work well enough together :)
Not sure if it's been mentioned here but Operation Mincemeat principal Jessi Kirtley has been out on medical leave for almost 2 months now leaving her understudy Lexi Rabadi to hold the fort as Jean. Lexi's been killing it but being one understudy down has been very touch and go, especially when the cast usually only do 7-show weeks and unlike the year 1 cast, Allison only undercovers Bevan not two roles. Julia's about to go on leave with Gerianne playing Monty which basically leaves them down to zero cover so bringing in Cassie before she starts the tour seems to have been an inspired move. I assume they’ll do Lexi’s Monty put in before Julia goes on leave so that if something were to happen to Geri (hopefully not lol) they have the option of Lexi!Monty and Cassie!Jean.
One thing that’s fun is the tour cast was going to be the first Mincemeat cast that’s 100% new… but if Cassie does go on on Broadway that will no longer be the case.
I built my first one in May I think. Now I have a brand new set of shelves in our living room because where else to put them? 🤣 Shopping Street and the Jazz Club are my most recent two to be finished — although I’m waiting for a pick a brick order because I’m going to attempt to recolour the dark orange on the furniture shop of Shopping St to dark red. I have Brick Bank and Detective’s Office in my backlog and I’m keen to get the Police Station, Bookshop and maybe the Diner, then I’ll be happy… until next year 🥴
Shoutout to our cake baker who made an amazing cake based on very little in the way of actual cake inspo because it's such a niche theme. Oh and the 7th candle is the giant battery operated one at the back cause we’re doing a bday weekend at a hotel and can’t use matches 🤣
T has — off the top of my head — USA, Europe, Rails & Sails, Poland, Northern Lights, Iberia/Sth Korea, Japan/Italy, Netherlands & UK, as well as more than 15 homemade games he and my husband have made together.
Honestly shoutout to my husband who thought I was joking when I suggested it last week and wasn’t overly impressed… and who then came around and consented to a family IKEA trip yesterday and helped build, prep and spray paint it this weekend 😅 I’m pretty sure the quid pro quo is my LEGO stays on those shelves and once I’ve run out of room that’s it 🫡 lol
Wanting to display 2 standard baseplate modulars side by side per shelf, probably 3-4 shelves high. Prefer an open shelving/modern and light wood/metal/paint colours as this is going in our living room 😅 I thought I’d found an IKEA one that was perfect but then I realised the individual shelf height isn’t tall enough, the 36cm-ish high of my tallest modulars (I don’t have all of them) is taller than most shelves. We’re going to take a look tomorrow anywhere but while I’ve already googled for days I thought I’d see if anyone had any bright ideas. Google keeps serving me ads for a Mustard Made cabinet that looks amazing if not for the $1190 price tag 🤣
Loved everything about this, right from ‘laying’ the tiled floor I could tell it was going to be amazing. The art gallery is pretty much my favourite thing ever and I love the colours, the architecture and the creative interiors of the hotel (although I pity the second floor occupants if they need to use the bathroom!).
Highly recommend the LMB kit too, I would say it’s one of the best ‘bang for bucks’ kits I’ve done of theirs, with all the individual interior lamps lit up as well as spotlights on the roof and above the art gallery, and inside the art gallery and reception level as well. Plus some truly clever dock hiding places.
Taken by my hairdresser after my appointment today (yes I have dye on my neck still lol but it comes off in the shower so no biggy). Sometimes I go straight pink, sometimes I go pink with a fun fringe, sometimes I get scattered purple foils… today I couldn’t decide what I wanted so I told her to be creative 😍
With the usual disclaimer to check primary sources and not rely on it 100%... Thrulines is a huge time saver and a very powerful tool. But whyyyyyy doesn't it show the icon to indicate whether or not you've already connected someone to your tree? Similarly, it would be great if on the main ancestors Thrulines page it would show you if there are 'new' unconnected people.
After exhausting common ancestors etc from my results (plus a whole lot of others worked out using shared matches) I finally convinced my parents to test for me and my dad's results have just come through, I figure mum's will in the next few days. Obviously I had already matched about 50 people through my match profile so the first thing I did was go through and connect them to dad's. When his Thrulines comes through tomorrow (the wait is annoying lol, I'm impatient) it would be so much quicker if it actually showed who is new, other than having to rely on a combination of memory and clicking through people.
Similarly I wish you could 'discard' matches on the match list filters e.g. to see all the people who have matched common ancestors, but not show those who I've already connected so I can just see who I have left to work out. You can't even show a list of your matches without previously connecting them to a group.
Anyway just food for thought for someone deep in matchland
Another Light My Bricks kit installed and I’m definitely getting faster at them but this one was probably one of the weaker LMB kitsets. The ground floor came with only the lamps lit (& weirdly, the light in the toilet that’s hardly visible lol) and then a super bright overhead light, having read the reviews I bought a green light for the till and a pink light for the haberdashery and I love them so much (but of course that was DIY). Once I’d installed the overhead lights as per the kit they completely washed out the mood lighting so I then went back and pulled them out again and just left the dock for the clock, side light and touch pads. The clock lighting again seems a bit disappointing compared to other light kit brands but having committed to LMB I want to keep it all consistent so I can turn them on with a single switch. The next time from them I’m going to order a light for the clockmaker’s lamp but I haven’t decided what colour to make it so that it stands out against the overheads.
Anyway that’s 4/7 built sets done now and a great way to light up our living room in the evening and even during the gloomy winter weather we had in Melbourne today. I was going to make Tudor my last lot of lights simply because of the cost, but even though I was a bit disappointed with it specifically I just love how the lights bring the the modulars to life and let the interiors shine as much as the exteriors… so i’m desperately hoping for a LMB sale because I will eventually have have 6 more to light 🤣🫣
Things like this are one of the bazillion reasons I love Op Mincemeat, they never forget they are telling a true story and that real men’s lives were literally at stake.