Graveyard Duel (4766) & Shrieking Shack (4756) Legos

Graveyard Duel 4766

This set comes with Malfoy in gray, a bunch of skeletons (white, green and black), Harry in his Triwizard Tournament clothes, Wormtail with a gray hand (because he gets a metal hand after he cuts his off to revive You Know Who), and of course, You Know Who! :) 

(Sorry it's blurry, I'm not a very good picture taker!)

There's a thing on this grave that you can turn and the skeleton pops up (and p.s. you totally get a sweet view of 2 of my fingers! yay).

The Shrieking Shack 4756...
YAY!

Inside.. (the house spins around for some reason, its kind of weird..)
Comes with Harry, Lupin, Serius and Peter Pettigrew, also their animal identities.  (See last picture!!!!!!!!)

This set also comes with the sweet shop...its pretty sweet! :) haha.  I think it would be fun to make this building a lot bigger when I build my huge HP land layout.

Inside...and there is a trap door on the floor of the left side part.

This is my favorite part.  The coveted Lupin werewolf head.  (Well, and Serius as a dog, and Peter as the rat).

There are much more sets that I still haven't built yet.  But we're planning a lego weekend here soon or two.  We just have to get a jump start on homework before we can do that.  :)
Plus, as a special treat, I recently got some Christmas village houses out of legos...So that will be exciting! :)

Update attempt 2

Here is the update I've been threatening...

Here is my itty bitty christmas tree!  I had to get a new tree stand for it, and the bolt things that you screw into the tree were too small for the trunk of this tree so I had to go to the bolt and nut supply to get some new and longer ones.  It was pretty awesome!

Here are some cookies that I sometimes like to make around Christmas time...They are stroopwafels, a cone textured cookie that has a caramel filling.  They are really good and can be frozen and thawed and still are delicious (even though I didn't, unfortunately).

Here are the John Deere cookie mixes that I gave for Christmas!  They turned out really cool and I "accidentally" have one left over. :)  We had to special order the yellow m&ms and then I sifted through Christmas green and red m&ms to get the green ones, as it was cheaper than special ordering only green ones.  Plus I can make more cookies! YUM!  HERE is where I got the idea. :) Plus, my man is going to start working for John Deere this coming spring.  YAY!

Somewhat update..

I'm very behind, I haven't posted on here for a while, so there might be half a dozen posts today...maybe.

Well, the internet doesn't appear to be cooperating.  Some things to look forward to hopefully this weekend:

Legos:  The Graveyard Duel (4766)
            The Shrieking Shack (4756)

My teeny tiny Christmas tree.
My John Deere cookie mixes in a jar that I am giving out for Christmas.
And it seems like there should be something else, but I can't remember.
Oh well, talk to you later when the internet is working better! :)

400 views!

Yaaay!  We recently reached 400 views on this blog...I'm very excited!!!  Thank you A for helping me get to this point! :)  I'm also about 5 or 6 away from hitting 500 on the metal home decor blog, so this is pretty exciting! hehe...Its sad what I get excited about.  But, its awesome!

Diagon Alley!!!! (10217)

Long awaited...
(please disregard the background)

Borgin and Burkes:
(Built with this building is Fred and George Weezley, Grayback and Lucias Malfoy)...I LOVE Fred and George!

(notice the really cool skeleton in the window and...the other vanishing cabinet...which means now I have both!  Imagine the dorky possibilities!)

Olivander's:
(Built with this building was Ron Weezley, Olivander, and Hermione)

And...Gringott's Bank...
(which includes Hagrid, Harry and 2 goblins)

(I think the vault is neat but the one in the older set is much better, so when I have plenty of room in my house..someday...I'm going to combine them and make it more amazing!)

..Fred and George.. (the brown blob is a brown frog)

Olivander and the 2 goblins....aren't they cute!?

Grayback and the skeleton..and the other vanishing cabinet :)

Sets I still have to build...2 old Hogwarts Expresses, the Chamber of Secrets (which is really neat and has the basilisk in it..with glow in the dark knife teeth-awesome!), and first edition Hogwarts Castle (which includes a fat lady doorway that spins around...HEHEHE).

Recipe exchange...

FYI..I started another blog because I thought it would be fun to start a recipe exchange.
Check it out, and please contribute.  It's a work in progress, so bare with me.  :)
yourfavoriterecipeexchange.blogspot.com
:) Tell your friends and hopefully this will work out!

In honor of Halloween...

...and just in case you didn't think I was a dork already...

(If only I would have had Cornelius Fudge...and I love purple Dumbledore, 

I have him mostly in gray clothes!)

Notice: The three kids escaping out the back, Dumbledore and Hagrid in front faced the other way, Buckbeak and the pink umbrella in the pumpkin patch, and....Harry and Hermione also hiding behind one of the pumpkins behind buckbeak!!  Because, they go back in time...etc.  It was only fitting to do this now, as Hagrid grew really large pumpkins, and its pumpkin season.