Great Geeky DIY LEGO Holiday Ornaments: Brick the Halls

You can make some great ornaments just using LEGO bricks. Check out these awesome DIY LEGO ornaments from LEGO builder Chris McVeigh. He has designed a fantastic set of original LEGO holiday ornaments that we can all make ourselves at home.
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He offers downloadable build-it-yourself guides that tell you which individual bricks you need for any given ornament. You can use that info to purchase custom brick colors from LEGO’s online Pick a Brick store. Chris also has ready-to-build LEGO kits available to purchase from his store.

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These ornaments will look amazing on your tree this year. I can’t help but love the Star Wars ones best.

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[via Laughing Squid]

A Near Perfect Lego Recreation of the Commodore 64

Hot on the heels of his impressive Lego Leica M9-P and gorgeous bricked Macintosh, Chris McVeigh—aka Flickr’s powerpig—is back with a stunning Lego rendition of the Commodore 64. More »

Build This Lego Leica M9-P Hermes and Save Yourself $49,962

Lego master builder Chris McVeigh has cooked up a playful alternative to Leica’s obscenely and pointlessly expensive $50,000 M9-P ‘Edition Hermès’. The Lego version doesn’t actually take photos, but you’ll also pay only $38 for a kit if you can’t scrounge all the parts needed to assemble it. More »

This Delicious Lego Turkey Platter Will Feed No One on Thanksgiving

Tomorrow, you could spend six hours cooking a stuffed 18-pound turkey for a bunch of ungrateful family members. Ugh but so much waiting—not to mention the tedious preparation. Instead, spend considerably less time on following the step-by-step instructions for this 102-piece Lego build just posted by international man of bricks Chris McVeigh. Just, you know, keep the Lego feast away from young children who might confuse it for real food. [Powerpig] More »