Today’s guest article comes from Graeme Dymond, a LEGO Certified Professional (LCP) and AFOL living in Toronto, Canada. A Holiday Story of Joy and Brokenness The holiday season has a unique way of amplifying our emotions—good or bad. For some, it’s a time of joy and togetherness. Many of my favorite LEGO memories are from opening presents during the holiday season, and I’m sure many other readers have similar stories. I love to decorate my front lawn with large, holiday themed DUPLO sculptures and share the love of LEGO bricks with my neighborhood. For many others, though, the holidays can be a period of isolation, self-doubt, or even quiet desperation. It can be hard to reach out for help or share what you are feeling, and many go through the holidays silently struggling alone. I want to share a story with an important lesson I learned recently, one that echoes a...

I have what could be considered a decently large family, with five siblings in addition to myself and my parents—and when there are eight of you, it can be hard to find common interests that you can all connect through. In my family, the LEGO system is one of the few things that we can all enjoy to one extent or another, so my dad figured it was a natural choice to use LEGO bricks to initiate family bonding. And what better way to do that than by collaborating on a winter village layout? Once Upon A Time… When my dad was a kid, his dad built a wooden display known as “The Village” to sit at the base of their Christmas tree. The display consisted of an L-shaped snapshot of a town consisting of a road and a variety of houses and stores. It was also designed so that lights...

Today’s guest article comes from Tammy Schefcik, the mother of BrickNerd Editor-in-Chief Dave Schefcik. She has fostered creativity and community through LEGO for years and shares her experience with the new LEGO holiday botanicals. A Flower Girl I suppose you could say I’ve always been a flower girl. My love affair with flowers began when I was just two years old, toddling down the aisle as a flower girl at my cousin’s wedding. I can still remember clutching that little basket filled with flowers, its handle wrapped in ribbons. From that moment on, flowers became a part of me, as much a part of my life as my family, holidays, and traditions. Growing up on the East Coast, flowers were everywhere, and each season brought its own magic. Crocuses would poke through the snow to announce spring, followed by daffodils, lilacs, and azaleas. Forsythia bushes exploded in yellow, while magnolia and...

The first day of the year is always big for LEGO fans, as this is when LEGO releases the first batch of new sets! This year, you can select from over 140 new sets from every theme! Take a look below. 2025 LEGO ANIMAL CROSSING SETS AVAILABLE NOW: Three new sets are available in this […]Original linkOriginal author: Thita (admin)

The weather has been quite blah lately, even here in the sunshine state, so I spent the Christmas break working on my LEGO city display and other building projects. My city is quite small compared to the giant metropolises many LEGO fans have, spreading out on two long shelves, so I need to be selective […]Original linkOriginal author: Thita (admin)