It’s our 5 year wedding anniversary today and it’s got me jonesing for a vacation. That perfect kind of vacation that I think we all dream about. Where we see amazing places (preferably from multiple countries), eat mouthwatering meals, stroll leisurely through small towns until we get lost, sleep in until ten, and wake to the sounds of birds outside our window. Our precocious but sweet little girl would be charming, fascinated by everything, and with an endless attention span and a weightless body. It’s a vacation that we return from to find no workload waiting for us, no cleaning, no to-do lists, and a house that has been scrubbed clean and perfectly organized from top to bottom.
I swear I got all of that the moment I saw these block sets from Haba. They’re simplicity allows for that kind of imagination – even from a grown up like me. Or, maybe, it’s simply the quiet monotony of my life on a slow day like today that lets my brain loose in impossible directions. Either way, just writing this has improved my mood by a couple of hairs. I wonder how I’d feel if I had these blocks to build with as well?
Shown from top to bottom:
Russian Blocks from Haba, $40.49
Colisseum Blocks from Haba, $40.49
Baroque Blocks from Haba, $40.49
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Those are some gorgeous wood block sets! The Colisseum seems a bit limited regarding post-build creativity, but the other two sets have such great pieces that getting creative with those could yield some very interesting designs. Love them!
I agree, the Colisseum is a bit more of a Puzzle than a free form building set, but I would like to see it with several Russian Turrets, or combined with the Pyramid set, also available from Moolka. (Along with The Leaning Tower of Piza, a Japanese house, medieval castle, and a couple others I’m forgetting!)
I absolutely love this product. I got my son a microscope from this educational supplies website called School Surplus.
An he is glued to that.
Thanks for the idea :)