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Art Book: How to Build Lego Cars

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Do you love building with Lego?   Do you see it for the art form that it is?  Yes, it’s STEM and building and engineering, but … it is also an art form.   You can really see it in these magnificantcars that Peter Blackert helps you design in How to Build Brick Cars.

Oh…these aren’t your standard lego cars…these are master builder cars that go on to inspire you to model your own creations.
15 different cars which work you up from basic to expert, teaching you the skills you need to design your own lego models of the sports, race, and muscle cars you see around you every day.

You get to build cars such as the Ford Raptor, Datsun Coupe, Ferrari 250, Porsche 911 and so many more.  15 cars all told.

You will find detailed parts lists as well as information about the car being built.  The parts list is in full colour with numbers written alongside.  I didn’t find those numbers worked well with the Lego Store, so they might be with another area?  I don’t know.  BUT I do know you could go into any Lego Store with this book and they could help you find any pieces that you need, with the picture is on the page along with colour.  Easy peasy!

After the opening section you get into the meat of the build.  Full colour illustrations walk you step by step through the build. As long as you are paying attention (and don’t skip steps) you can complete your build.

My thoughts:
This is a great book for any lego enthusiast.  Getting help to make the car of your dreams?  What more could you ask for.  The detailed instruction ensure that anyone who can follow lego instructions can complete these builds…just as long as you have all the lego parts at hand.    Go ahead, create some lego art!

How to Build Brick Cars: Detailed Lego Designs for Sports cars, race cars, and muscle cars.
Peter Blackert
MotorBooks
192 Pages
Paperback, oversized
Lego, creator, build, master builder, animals, design

Reviewed for: Quarto Group.

Where can I find it?

How to Build Brick Cars.    Amazon.ca   Or   Amazon.com.

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Art Book: Beasts from Bricks

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Oh, who doesn’t like to build with lego?  I spent hours as a child playing with lego and have had lots of fun playing with my boy child…though the older he gets the more he keeps himself busy with other things and plays less with his mama.  BUT this book is cool!  Making animals from around the world, using the designs in Beasts from Bricks.  It’s great!


15 different animals which take you through the different continents of the world, teaching you the skills you need to design your own lego models of various animals you can meet in your life (or perhaps WISH you could meet in real life).

You get to build animals such as the African Elephant, Indian rhinocerous, Suffolk sheep, walrus, jack rabbit, anteater and a wombat (as well as others).   I loved that each new animals was introduced to us along with why the author builder created them.

You will find detailed parts lists along with a colour key.  The parts list is in full colour with numbers written alongside.  I didn’t find those numbers worked well with the Lego Store, so they might be with another area?  I don’t know.  BUT I do know you could go into any Lego Store with this book and they could help you find any pieces that you need, since the picture is on the page along with it’s colour.  Easy peasy!

After the opening section you get into the meat of the build.  Full colour illustrations walk you step by step through the build. As long as you are paying attention (and don’t skip steps) you can complete your build.  You may even find yourself inspired to find other animals you can build.  Sometimes to just be changing the colour (as in making a white sheep black, or multi coloured), or by using the skills you have been taught to come up with your own designs.  Who knows what you’ll be able to build eh?

Little things I liked: Each animal is colour coded, so you know all the blue is one animal, different builds he’s made pictured at the back of book, clear instructions, image of finished animal, and the pedestal each animal is placed on so you aren’t limited to stance or flat surfaces.

My Thoughts:
Get this book.  Have fun learning about and then building animals from all over the world. It’ll be great fun, you know it!  🙂

Beasts from bricks
Ekow Nimako
Quarry books
144 pages
Softcover, oversized
Lego, building, STEM, animals, engineering

Reviewed for: Quarto Group

Where can I find it?
Beasts from bricks.  Amazon.ca    Or    Amazon.com.

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Christmas Books To Enjoy

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 Over the years I’ve read a few books at Christmas, some that became favourites and others well…not so much.  🙂  And since this is my blog I don’t have to share those books I didn’t enjoy not so much eh?

So I’m going to throw up pictures of books, if they are ones that I read for a review I’ll link up the review, if they are just books that I like well.. you’ll just get a picture eh?  And perhaps some comments about the book.

We will start off with some off favourites:

 Alabaster’s Song…. This just a lovely book by Max Lucado.  I’m not big into angels, but this book..this I liked, and my lad was captivated. 🙂

 

My boy has been into cats ever since he was wee little, and this book about The Christmas Kitten was one of those “read it again” books.   I think if I wanted to I could tell this story off by heart.  🙂  

You know how most lift the flap books you look through once and you are done with them.  The mystery is all gone?  Not when you are wee little!  Boy, my lad liked this book.  I had a hard time posting it for sale this fall as it brings back such memories and is still in really good condition.   Hoping I can find a child to bless with it this Christmas.

My Good friend Lori has this book now.  I really liked this book and had it LITERALLY for years.  I got it when I was still single and read it to countless numbers of children who in turn, fell in love with it.  I hope her youngsters love it as much as my lad did and all those children before him.

And then move on to some newer favourites:

oh…these two books… just so lovely.  Really.  

See if you can find them this winter season and just enjoy them.  They are particularly “Christmas” books, but they are seasonal books that are well worth reading.

Sing a season song.

This was an absolutely gorgeous book. Seeing the seasons change and slip away one into another.  The animals, the plants, the scenery.

Just a gorgeous book that as a parent you will probably appreciate before your children do, but once they catch the wonder and beauty, you’ll be able to savour the words as you go through the pages.

 
Not biblically accurate, but in truth…not a lot different from most Christmas stories and plays that are around nowadays.

This was a sweet soft-cover book that found it’s way into a new home last year with a young lady.  One you might want to check out just for the pictures!  🙂

This book is hilarious.  My lad loved it oh my… 

It’s a great paroday of the “Night before Christmas”.  

All I can say is get it, read it, and laugh along with three very silly knights…all before Christmas.  

You’ll find a broader review here.

Oh…I mustn’t forget Oskar…and the night of broken glass. 

Such a quietly delightful book full of meaning.

Just go read it with your children, learn something, and be quietly blessed for your journey through it.

I’ll finish with one I just met the other day:

I don’t normally recommend Santa based books, but I thought this one well done with good truths for children to pick out as they enjoy the beauty and kindness of Christmas.

Anyways, this is just a glimpse of the many Christmas books that have passed through our house, perhaps they’ll be a blessing to you and yours.

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Hey….Making Some Changes

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I am slowly making some changes. I decided to go to a WordPress account.
A dear, dear lady is helping me out.  You can find her here: https://www.homestead-acres.com/   I haven’t quite figured out how to insert a link into my posts yet…GAH!!!   Oh oh… maybe I did!   Check the link on lady and let me know eh?
I’m learning new skills.
But change takes time so…. bear with me eh?

Review: The Little Books of Prayers

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Sometimes, just sometimes I get a review book in that I am just not sure how to approach.   That was the case recently with this book “The Little Book of Prayers”. Many of the prayers in this little book, were great.  Well written, God-based prayers.  There were also some really neat images, of believers who have gone on before, contained in almost every two-page spread.

Herein lies my hesitation.

It’s a Roman Catholic based book and as such, evaluating prayers to the saints (like to Mary, Jude, Anne etc) I feel totally unqualified to do.   That’s the brass tacks of it, NOR do I feel right in telling you these prayers are appropriate.   I don’t pray to any of the saints, I believe that our prayers are directed to God through Jesus.

BUT if you are Catholic and are looking for a neat prayer book to aid yourself or your children in developing a good prayer life, this book will most definitely (from what I can tell) fit the bill.

I appreciated the little blue ribbon, it’s of good quality and so helpful for keeping your place as you learn the prayers.  The prayers are written in an easy to read font.

Check out these images, aren’t they well done?  Helping us to remember believers who have died and gone on to glory?  It’s good to remember the history of our faith.

It’s not a large book, perhaps 6 x 4 inches, hardcover, with gloss lined edges, it’s a very pretty book, and very easy to handle.  I can envision someone putting it into their handbag or pocket on their way to church or other places.  Or giving to a child to hold as they learn the prayers of the Roman Catholic church.

My Thoughts:  
If you are Roman Catholic, or even a person curious about the Roman Catholic faith, this prayer book is well made, of excellent quality, with good pictures of people in our faith history.  See the images, be inspired to live out your faith as the believers did of old.  Learn to pray better by seeing and memorizing good examples.  

The Little Book of Prayers
Chronicle books
176 pages
Faith, Roman Catholic, Prayers, Hardcover 

Reviewed for: Raincoast Books.  

 Where can I find it?
Amazon.ca: The Little Book of Prayers.
Amazon.com: The Little Book of Prayers. 

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Week in Review: November 2017

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 It has been a while since I’ve written a weekly write up.   Things get away from me sometimes, and to be honest…this past month has been a bit of a struggle for me, trying to figure out what’s going on with my body. 

Anyways, enough of that though… just what have we done recently?

Today that lad made bread completely on his own (other than my finding him a recipe).

Last night we took a trip out to the KW Symphony.  They were hosting a new subscriber night, with a brass band and snacks afterward.  It was a good time, learning the behind the scenes stuff at the Centre in the Square and hearing fun music.  🙂   All three of us enjoyed it.

What else, oh…the lad is enjoying his schooling this year.  He’s been doing some neat stuff with Innovator’s Tribe.   This week he was supposed to make some furniture and he asked is he could make a formacarium instead and my response was “that’s ant furniture…sure go ahead”.  He did a good job.  🙂  I wish I knew how to save a picture of what he did for you all to see.  

He likes, for the most part, The good and beautiful curriculum we’ve been using for language arts.  It’s got a bunch of different components to it that are pleasing him.  
He’s not real sure about the art aspect of it, but I like it…and that has to count for something right?   We studied this artist this week, and the lad got to design his dream bedroom which he had a lot of fun with.    Mykola Bodarewsky;.  Anyways, look up this curriculum, it’s rather neat and its free if you do your own printing.

Tonight the lad helped me finish a project that’s been weighing on my mind but I just couldn’t manage to do.  Hubby helped me pick up the wood yesterday and today the lad and I set about building an end to the rabbitry.  It had turned into a wind tunnel with the wood sides and some of my buns were acting a touch stressed so putting an end on solved that issue.  🙂   Would have been nice to frame it all out and add a door but well..that wasn’t happening…so he worked hard and we got it done.  Hubby came out and offered advise when needed so it was great, just great to have us all working together. 

What else…. oh well… doctor’s appointments up the wazoo.
A darling mom in law who helped clean the house so I didn’t free frazzled about that.
A sweet mom who came and kept the lad company when I had my MRI.
mmm…hugs from a hubby.
Help from a boy child.
Letters and emails from friends concerned.  Prayers from kith and kin.

I am richly blessed you know… just so richly blessed.  God’s goodness shines through!

Anyways, I’ll be linking up at Kym’s.

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Review: A Runtamuffin Tale

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Runtamuffin…. is a cute little chicken that learns quickly that people are it’s friends, and that thought carries Runtamuffin throughout her entire life. This fun picture book for children captures life in a barnyard, while teaching important truths to it’s readers.

 Imagine you want to give someone a gift unique to them, what would it be?
In Lasse’s case….he wanted to be a farmer…the gift, just for him…chickens!  Oh my the girls had fun in making this gift special for him.  You could sense the delight they had in the creating, and their love for him.

And so starts the story of Runtamuffin and her adventures.  She learned to trust her humans, she learned to trust the other animals, to count on their aid, and they in turn learned to count on her. Tales of adventure awaited little Runtamuffin.

It’s a nice story for youngsters, the font making it one to read along side a child as opposed to reading to a group of children.    

The illustrations are full colour and give many talking points, such as why a chicken might sit on the back of a horse, how they might learn which horses were safe to visit and which were not, and the joy of listening to a well told story.

If you want to know more about the author and illustrator, as well as read snippets of other reviews you can go here.

My thoughts:
It was a cute story, seeing all the farm animals, the protective dog, the newest arrival and the curiousity among the chickens and the boldness of Runtamuffin.  Nicely told.

A Runtamuffin Tale
Melissa Taylor
Marc Beauregard (illustrator)
57 pages
Ages 5-8
Picture book, animals, life on farm, relationships

Reviewed for: Ascot Media Group. 

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