So I know I am a horrible blogger on here and I totally admit that I am lame at keeping this blog up. Barb…stop nodding your head…I get it. 
But now I have an excuse!!! 
I’ve recently been ‘hired’ by Classic-Town.net to blog LEGO creations that relate to the Classic Town genre. For those of you not familiar with the ‘Classic Town’ genre, it’s basically referring to sets that were produced from the late-1970’s through the late-1990’s. That style of building is what most current AFOL’s refer to as the ‘Classic Town Era’. Newer sets such as the Town Plan, Cafe Corner, Market Street, and etc generally fall under the newer ‘Modular Standard’. But fret not new-skool builders…Classic-Town.net does cover the gamut of town-related MOC’s and generally has a little something for every fan of the Town theme.
With my new assignment, I will be stretched even more and will probably not get much posted here at all. I swear I am going to try…but I’m not promising anything. If you want content…e-mail Stacy and tell her to get on with blogging. She’s better at blogging our adventures anyway.
So head on over to Classic-Town.net and check out my posts. It’s my first blogging assignment in the LEGO community and I’m pretty stoked to be on board. Many thanks to Hinckley (aka Mark) for tapping me for this gig.
That’s right kiddies…Brickworld starts in only 3 days! What is Brickworld you ask? It’s a four day Adult Fan of LEGO convention held in Wheeling, IL at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel and Convention Center. 
It’s a chance for over 500 AFoL’s to geek out with friends and do nothing but LEGO-related stuff for four days! Sounds fun huh? You can even get in on the fun by stopping in for the Public Expo days on Saturday and Sunday (June 20th & 21st). Admission is just $10 for adults and $7 for kids and that gets you access to the 35,000 square feet of LEGO madness! C’mon…you know you want to stop by and hang out.
Stacy and I spent the weekend packing up our layout for Brickworld and tonight we get to hope we can cram it all into our 15 passenger mega-van (aka The ToT-LUG Love Van). It will certainly be close, but I think we packed better than we have previously so here’s hoping! We also managed to put Heather’s BeachHouse back together after an epic packaging FAIL! as shown in the picture here. It looks pretty good now and should be an awesome addition to the ToT-LUG layout.
I’ve still got a few things to take care of today (liquor store run, print out layout diagram, pack clothes, etc.), but at least the major stuff is done. Yesterday we bought snacks and a bunch of Red Bull to get us through the week. I actually feel like I am somewhat ahead of the curve this year. Last year at this time I was still building like crazy to try and fill all of our space. My how a year changes things.
The plan is to make a couple blog posts from Brickworld…assuming we have WiFi…so keep checking back here over the next few days. Til then…
Over the past few months we garnered a few more blog mentions on various LEGO-related (and non-LEGO) blogs. 
It’s pretty cool that people are checking out our stuff and feeling that it’s cool enough to want to promote on their blogs. This kind of feedback really pushes us to build more stuff and really push the limits of our building acumen. It seems like the bulk of our mentions are related to capturing architecture in LEGO form. Stacy has really taken this to a new level with her recent build, The Eames House (aka Case Study #8). This build is amazing! Be sure to get over to MOCPages to check it out when you have a chance. Stacy also did the Addams Family house and a really nice LEGO version of Mickey’s Diner in St. Paul, MN.
Anyway, here are the various blog mentions we’ve received in the past few months. Thanks to all of the bloggers who are taking the time to showcase our creations and help us promote our work. We really appreciate it!
Emily Sevenoaks’ Job Search Blog (Eames House Featured)
ClassicTown.net Blog (Starbucks Featured)
ClassicTown.net Blog (Fire Station Featured)
ClassicTown.net Blog (Eames House Featured)
Dude Craft Blog (Eames House Featured)
If It’s Hip, It’s Here Blog (Eames House Featured)
Another Bla Bla Blog (Eames House Featured)
Sparkle & Fade Blog (Eames House Featured)
Chris Stout’s Twitter (Eames House Featured)
The Daily What (Eames House Featured)
The Haunted Lamp (Eames House Featured)
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May 29th,2009
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The count-down to Brickworld 2009 has started and we are only 20 days away from the big event! Stacy and I will be bringing our Train/Town/Harry Potter layout along again and this year we are 12.5′ x 18′. 
We will also be featuring MOC’s from other prominent AFoL’s such as Chris Phipson, HeatherLEGOGirl, and Brian Kescenovitz. This event will also mark the first time that Stacy, Heather, Chris, Brian, Alex, Dave, Dennis, Lee, Matija, Mark, and I will all be in the same room together. I’m not sure if that is a good or bad thing. We’re a wild bunch and anything could happen when we all get together. Make sure you stop back here to keep up with the craziness. Assuming we have wireless access at the Westin, we’ll try to post updates each day with a couple pictures.
As far as preparations go, we’re getting close to being ready. I just finished building a new ‘warehouse district’ to go near the port along with some new vehicles. As always, we are ballasting train track like mad and getting close to running out of 1×1 tiles…again. Looks like I’ll be placing another Bricklink order soon. Tonight I’m going to try and build some additional freight rolling stock as well as some town ‘enhancements’ (streetlights, stop-lights, etc.). We should also receive our parts for the ‘container swap’ and should start putting those together as well. Looks like we’ll be busy right up to the day we leave!
Wow, it’s been awhile since I updated this thing. I wonder if anyone actually reads this anymore. It never really caught on like I had hoped. I guess I was just too lazy to actually keep it up. I keep saying I’ll try to write more each year, but I never seem to find the time. 
Maybe I need to do lots of small posts that only take me 5-10 minutes to write. That’s not too much time to take out of a day is it?
So what’s new with Stacy and I…hmm…not much I guess. Things in the Sterling house are pretty normal these days. We’re busy getting ready for Brickworld 2009 and have a whole host of other adventures planned for later this year. Kevin & Maren are getting married in a little over a month and that will be a fun weekend getaway to the North Shore. BrickCon comes up in October and I’m sure we’ll have a few other weekend adventures to talk about.
Oh, we finally got a new GPS so we’re back out Geocaching again. Seems a lot of caches have been placed in the year we have been ‘away’. We’re using a Garmin Oregon 400T now and we absolutely love it! The touchscreen is amazing and we got a killer deal on it through REI. WooT!
That’s the haps right now…till next time…
We spent last weekend in the Dells with our friends, Jay and Carla, and I realized just how much fun it is to go back to places I went as a kid and still find the small joys in those places. The waterslides at Noah’s Ark can still cause me to burst out screaming, and I was as giddy as a kindergartner on their first day of school as I waited for the Spongebob 4D movie to start. It is times like this that I realize I’m not as far removed from my childhood as society says I should be at this age – what a relief!
It was while we were killing time before heading to the drive-in movie that we stumbled across the infamous Zoltar Speaks fortune telling machine (as seen in BIG with Tom Hanks, you know you remember the scene…). In all of our excitement we neglected to actually get our fortunes told, then again maybe we were both nervous about the power of the all mighty Zoltar and didn’t want to try our luck. Now that I’m home looking at the picture my mind wanders – what would I wish for??
