Custom Project - prior to June 2017
When the company I work for moved to a new office, I gained an office roommate. I suggested to her I'd like to build something Lego to personalize our space a little, and asked what kinds of things she would like to look at. She suggested a small park. Or a pond. Or maybe a zen garden. So I used elements of all three.
I took the bridge off of my Temple of Airjitzu (set 70751) and used one of the new transparent blue 10"x10" bases I'd just gotten to give me a water-like base. I made one end of the bridge come out on a small sandy zen garden (complete with bonsai tree), and the other onto a lush mix of green plates and all kinds of grasses and flower. In the far corner I added a tree stump and some mushrooms.
Then I populated the park with a few swimming ducks and a curious turtle and frog. Once it came to work, my office-mate suggested a gnome would be just the thing, and since I'd wanted to get a gnome minifigure anyway, this was a great excuse. I put him on the bridge with a fishing pole, and a few days later brought him a fish, too!
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UPDATE: The coworker for whom I built the park is retiring, so I built a micro-version for her to take home and keep.
Obviously it wouldn't have the same level of detail, but she'll know that mushroom-cap represents the stump with mushrooms around it, and the yellow angle represents a duck, and the grass bit represents the bonsai tree in the zen garden.
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