Interesting Presents

For the 12/25 present day celebration this year I found something that I knew Corrie wanted and would most likely enjoy; the Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water Lego set. Denmark's toy giant decided to add some FLW projects to their Architectural Collections, and since Falling water is one of his best known works, and the most complex Lego set, and one of Corrie's favorites, I decided to get it for her. Here she is working on it while a raging bender was being had by dozens of people all around her. (I went to bed moments later.)



Here's the finished project:



In the vein of cool three-dimensional building projects, my mom got us a 3D globe puzzle as a gift. It comes from a German company that prides itself on jigsaw puzzles and their line of 3DJP (three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles, if you couldn't get that acronym). On the 2D side, they had an 18,000 piece puzzle available on their website...The pieces for this globe, as it was a rendition of earth complete with swanky little paintings on each continent showing characteristic cities or animals, were numbered as well as arrowed, letting the person putting it together know which way the next piece goes. Contrary to the inserted information, we were missing a piece...we had enough total, but one a double, and couldn't be crammed into the hole in Australia. Here's a picture of Corrie working on it (I organized the pieces, and she put them together):





And the finished product: