One of my Christmas presents from Jesse last year was this cute little mini reading nook.

It didn’t need painting or putting together–that was already done. Although I suppose I could paint the wooden parts. But for now I’ll leave well enough alone. The only thing I had to do was put these tiny books on the shelf. Here’s an idea of how small they are.

They do have covers of real books, but there are no individual pages.

Another Christmas present, this one from Jim, was a Lego floral kit. I don’t know why, but I just really don’t like the floral ones. So I asked if we could exchange it for a Jane Austen-themed one. He was happy to make the exchange.

However, I hadn’t found time to put it together until now.

If Jim and I aren’t watching TV together in the evenings, I usually read from the Kindle app on my iPad mini. But if we are watching something, I usually use the coloring app on my iPad while we watch. I’ve been thinking for a while that perhaps I could work on this Lego kit at that time instead. I finally did that this week and completed it in a couple of evenings. Here’s the finished product:

I love the details–the bookcase, fireplace, piano, ink stand, and flowers seen through the window. I don’t like the “portraits” quite as much, but, oh well.

The back is supposed to look like a book.

I had fun putting it together and love how it came out.

Some of you may remember a previous bookish Lego kit I completed last year.

Right now this one is on my desk. There’s not really room for the new one on my desk, so I am trying to decide whether to put it on a bookshelf in the living room or guest room and whether to move this one near the new one or not.

I got this kit two Christmases ago.

It’s not Lego. It seems to be made out of kind of a heavy cardboard. I opened up the instructions and pieces . . .

. . . and promptly closed them back up again. 🙂 This one looks complicated. I may try to lure Jesse (my youngest son) over with dinner one night and see if he’ll help me at least get started on it. He’s always been good with technical instructions–he’s navigated them while helping his dad and brother put things together. Plus he likes to build Metal Earth kits.

When I get this one together, I’ll let you know!