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Belated happy Thanksgiving to you!

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My Adidas 🎶

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How did today go for y'all? Any big wins or misses?

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My first LEGO meme. I'm sure someone else has probably done this, but I couldn't help myself 😆

Ok I had to actually make a meme with it...

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Hey folks, I'm Sia, an adult fan of LEGO (AFOL) living in the US. I started getting into LEGO more during the lockdowns and eventually started building out a city.

I really love the creativity involved in building out the "glue" to really tie in the different parts of a city to make them into a whole. I'm also learning to build MOCs (my own creation) along the way.

It wouldn't be as fun to build all of this without sharing it, so I've started trying to learn how to make better photos of LEGO. I have a camera 📷 in my sigfig pic here, but most of the time I'm using my phone 📱 since it squeezes into tight LEGO spaces better. I welcome tips to make that easier 😅

I'm excited to see the LEGO and LEGO photography community on Tumblr. Nice to meet you all!

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My LEGO city today 🎉

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My Lego city founding, part 3

I had a professor who used to talk about the tyranny of incrementalism. Incremental-lego-ism has fully tyrannized me, because I then bought Assembly Square.

So here we are, partly through the Assembly Square build.

The tyranny of incremental-lego-ism requires a next step. As I've shared my journey with my coding friends on Twitter and Instagram, they've introduced me to light kits and other fun stuff.

I originally wrote these three posts on February 1, 2022, and I wanted to preserve them here to really see the progress. The starting point of my Lego city was the Boutique Hotel, Assembly Square, and the Corner Garage.

My next post will give you a peek at where is at today 👀

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My Lego city founding, part 2

Fast forward to 2021, Hurricane Ida hit plus nine days of no power during a heat advisory, and I was tired. I love New Orleans, but the poor infrastructure wears you down.

I finally find myself in my own home with room to do all my creative projects... including Lego. I didn't set out to start a Lego city but the Lego city gods had other ideas.

The Boutique Hotel in all it's bougie glory called to me...

Enter 2022 and the omicron variant... I'm back to isolating at home, I finally built my Millennium Falcon UCS set (a Hurricane Ida stress purchase), and I find myself going back to lego.com and amazon to look at the modular buildings again and again. I finally pulled the trigger on the Boutique Hotel. I LOVE THIS SET!

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My Lego city founding, part 1

It all started in 2019 with the Corner Garage. My dad passed away from lung cancer a few years before, and this set reminded me of him.

You see, he was a Greek merchant marine who met my mom in Houston when his ship was docked in the port of Houston. They got married and he joined the immigrant Greek community in Houston. At that time, a lot of them owned or worked at service stations, so that's how my dad got his start too.

So I'm that weird person who finds the smell of old gas stations and the sound of the service bell nostalgic. I feel like I'm the only one who holds this set so close to their heart haha. I loved the entire bottom floor - all the gas station details. The upper floors are a little boring, but those can be spiced up in time, which is the whole point of this, right?

Way back in 2019, I was living in a one-bedroom single in New Orleans and had no space to store assembled projects, so it went back into the box...

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Hello, Tumblr, my old friend. Nice to see you again. I hope to keep you updated on all my LEGO city adventures.