VisitScotland is celebrating "spectacular" growth in visitors to Scotland's museums and attractions, and we're delighted that they've chosen our Brick City exhibition on its New Lanark visit to headline this article in The Scotsman.  We think that deserves a celebration!

The people of Westhill in Aberdeenshire certainly were the other week! We were asked to do something special to celebrate Book Week with a theme of 'nourishment'. So what better than to make a mosaic of the very hungry Caterpillar?

It's one of those times when it seems that all the exhibitions are on the move! Last week Guy and Alastair were in Norwich and today we've just finished putting the final touches to our Brick History Exhibition here at Preston Park Museum and Grounds, which opens on Thursday!

ust like your advent calendar, Brick wonders opens for the first time today- at the Forum in Norwich.

Brick wonders is now open and runs from December 1st through to January 21st.- open from 10am to 4pm at the Forum in central Norwich, and the great news is entrance is free !

Just in case you hadn't noticed, it's halloween tonight - that time of the year when it seems that everyone has scary makeup on, a special discount and the chocolate runs freely :-)

Brick Wonders is all set for a busy half term holiday period at Banbury Museum in Oxfordshire. Local schools have also been building up the excitement through building competitions, sponsored by local business The Hawkins Group.

In East Anglia and looking to get your 'science on' next week?

On Monday, Warren will be appearing in Norwich as part of the 2018 Science Festival!

I was pointed to an article on LinkedIn this week, which happens to cover our DFDS ship - and is a great explanation of what we and DFDS were trying to achieve. And just in case you don't speak Danish, here's an English translation, courtesy of Google translate:

'Jurassic joy' was brought to the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston Lancashire, during the summer, swelling visitor numbers to the gallery. Brick Dinos paid a visit to the awe-inspiring museum in Preston's City Centre for two months, and visitor numbers exceeded 40,000 during that time!

August was a busy month for all of us here at Warren Elsmore, as we welcomed thousands of visitors to our ‘Brick City- The Backstage Tour’ as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  For one month only we moved our studio into the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust's newly refurbished headquarters at Riddles Court, just off the famous Royal Mile, right in the heart of 'the fringe'.

The Warren Elsmore Team were busy towards the end of August with an event called Awesome Bricks at the Scottish Museum of flight at East Fortune Airfield near North Berwick. We were on hand all weekend to assist with lots of LEGO activities and to have some fun with bricks.

Brick Wonders Exhibition has arrived at Banbury Museum in Oxfordshire

Come and see over half a million bricks used to create amazing 'wonders' of the world, including Geographic Wonders such as the Grand Canyon, Ancient Wonders such as the building of the Pyramids, and Modern Wonders such as medicine, transport and space exploration. The exhibition runs from Sept 16th to Nov 18th.

After a successful Edinburgh Fringe Festival run (Brick City - the Backstage Tour) things are starting to get back to normal, and we recently returned a lot of models, bricks and equipment back to our studio. But the two huge LEGO brick arches that highlighted our location on the Royal Mile had been sitting outside for a month, and needed some TLC. They have now been carefully dismantled, cleaned and returned to our Warehouse. It's not all glamorous work being professional LEGO® artists!

Most of the time, when we build a commission - it belongs to our clients so they can do whatever they like with it. Even a 2.8 tonne, 13 metre long ship. But sometimes, there are special circumstances!

It's all been a bit hectic here lately, that's for sure! We're right in the middle of putting our studio back together, following on from the Festival. Don't worry - we'll be posting lots of pictures soon.

As we continue to add more buildings and scenery to Brick City - the backstage tour, we realised last week that we really did need some more roads. Specifically, roads that could fit between our houses and waterside. LEGO road plates are actually pretty large and not that pretty, so why not make them ourselves?

If you're in Edinburgh this month and you like LEGO (well, you're reading this - so I guess you do!) then we have a challenge for you and a chance to win free tickets to our Edinburgh Fringe show!

Pop quiz! What's the oldest continually running parliament in the world? Hint - it's not the UK but it is nearby....

Around this time last year, Teresa and I were in Portugal for the first LEGO fan weekend. Not their first event, but the first as a fully fledged hub event. Anyway, the event last year was fantastic. I'll be honest in that we had no idea what to expect, but whatever ideas we might have had were blown away by the hospitality, generosity and professionalism of the event. Obviously......

If you were in the Kennet Shopping Centre in Newbury last week - you can't have failed to notice this going on! Highclere Castle is the real life building that is used as the setting for Downton Abbey. A TV show that a few people have seen apparently!