The Lego Project
My love for Lego's goes back quite a ways, I always loved building things and these nifty little blocks are no exception. Now you have to understand that even since I was a kid I have loved things organized and in their place. So naturally all of my Lego sets were kept together in their sets, all pieces accounted for. Enter my husband, this lovely man in his youth, did not have the same feelings as I did when it came to his Lego sets. We retrieved from his parents house a plastic tub of Lego's and Bionicle pieces, you guessed it, all loose and together. About two months ago my husband and I assembled all of the Bionicle sets, so what was left was the many many Lego pieces. Exhibit A:
This started out as one large pile, and I started to disassemble this mess by sorting the pieces by color, hoping to make the search for the correct pieces a lot easier. Once the pieces were sorted by color, I started with a random instruction booklet. My husband helped here and there, I started this endeavor Friday night about 5pm. Here are a few more pictures showing the progress.
We started assembling the sets and some went more smoothly than others. My desk quickly filled up with the sets we were putting together. The cool thing is my husband had a wide range of sets, I'm a Star Wars fan, so most of my sets are composed of different ships.
Any pieces that were missing from the sets, I made a note on a post-it. I placed an order through Pick-a- brick on the Lego website, and will be able to complete most of the sets, but some are never going to be complete. 
After working on this all of Friday night, all day Saturday, and the majority of Sunday, all of the sets we had directions for were assembled. Did I mention that having to assemble the Mini-figures was one of the most frustrating things? When I had asked my husband why they were missing so many body parts, he says to me "They were in a war, lost appendages is part of the sacrifice!" These are the sets that were left over which having missing pieces. All of the sets were then disassembled and put into clear plastic baggies.
That was that, it's a whole weekend worth of work but now all the sets we have are neatly organized. I can't say I sleep any better, but it's another thing I don't have to think about. The after picture of our floor, without any Lego's on it.
I know this isn't technically a DIY post, but I thought it was blog worthy!
