Redecorating tip:

A naked doll wrapped in plastic can transform any boring old basement into a quaint murder dungeon.

LEGO Halloween III Minifigures

I made these figures as a tribute to Halloween III: Season Of The Witch. It's not even a very good movie, but there are a bunch of little things I love about it. For example, the three masks.



Happy Happy Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. 
Happy Happy Halloween, Silver Shamrock.

Halloween Mood Table 2014

I've had this set up for a while, but finally got around to photographing it. Since becoming a boring, stupid adult, the Halloween Mood Table has been one of my favorite traditions. Here's this year's, illuminated mostly by the blue glow of my television.



There are still purple string lights and of course speakers underneath for Halloween music. Aside from my anatomically correct werewolf hiding in the shadows beside the ghost, I switched it up this year with the action figure choices. The ghost is actually a candle holder my family has had for decades. My sister and I dug it out of the attic.

LEGO Minecraft Pumpkin Mosaic

My town in Minecraft has two scarecrows that I made out of pumpkins, torches, and fence posts. One of them is named Pumpkin Escobar, and the other is Samuel L. Jack-O-Lantern.

To show my love for Minecraft pumpkins, I got out my LEGO Mosaic set and my orange bricks to make this.

LEGO Daniel has a space helmet.

For anyone wondering just how authentic the cracked helmet is on the 1980's-something space guy in The LEGO Movie, I found this helmet the other day when looking through my collection.

LEGO Daniel gave himself a mohawk.

After seeing the mohawk I recently gave myself, LEGO Daniel decided he wanted one too. He mostly did it himself, but it was kinda difficult to do the back, so LEGO Edward Scissorhands helped out.

I just got back from an evening bike ride.

I'm not sure what the difference is between a tortoise and a turtle, but I saw one of the two. Its identity will forever remain a mystery, because I couldn't decipher any of the information on wikipedia, and I figured the shelled reptile wouldn't reply to me yelling "WHAT ARE YOU!?"

I stopped to hang out with it for a little while. It very slowly turned its head to look at me, and then we just stared at each other for about five minutes, sharing a comfortable silence. Then I said bye to my reptilian friend and rode off into the sunset. Except I guess I was actually riding away from the sunset. Do they ever do that at the end of movies?

This is LEGO Carter.

He knocked on my door to ask if he could have a banana, then left.

LEGO Kiddiefigures: Star Wars Edition

May the Fourth be with you. And no, I have not suddenly developed a lisp... It's Star Wars Day!

Honestly though, for me, every day is Star Wars Day.

In the past 15 years, LEGO has had many licensed themes, including Star Wars. But before the company acquired those licenses, we had to make our own versions of those themes with our own LEGO collections. I think it takes a lot of creativity and imagination not to have special pieces that are made specifically for these characters. I came up with an idea a few months ago for a special approach to building LEGO minifigures where you only use pieces that existed before LEGO released the official theme, which in my case, for the most part is actually how I made these characters into minifigures when I was a kid. I call them Kiddiefigures. I like the idea of capturing the classic LEGO aesthetic by incorporating kind of outdated pieces, such as the classic smiley face.

So here are my Star Wars LEGO Kiddiefigures, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.

More amusing LEGO minifigures.

This time I'd like to introduce you to Sparkles, the sleeveless wizard. And his brave companion is Buzz Lightyear of Star Clan. He's like a Frank Frazetta version of the popular Toy Story character.



I just thought it was funny to have the Buzz Lightyear head on that shirtless, muscular torso.

Sometimes I make LEGO minifigures that amuse me.

Although I guess all minifigures amuse me at some level. This one is simple. It's the statue of liberty with a fish for a torch.

I made some LEGO movie minifigures.

But not The LEGO Movie. These are characters from movies.



Gwynplaine from the 1928 silent movie The Man Who Laughs, and Edward from the 1990 Tim Burton movie Edward Scissorhands.