Palm trees. Final choice.

Here is the palm tree variant I ended up using.  It's solid, you can bend the tree trunk any way you want, and you can add as many leaf layers as you need.  Looks good for me!

The only tricky part is to cover that ugly square base with smaller plants around your tree.  Not a big deal as long as you have enough small plants :)

3-Piece Suit.

Heads and wardrobe. Part 1.

Something while I'm waiting for (hopefully) the last shipping of landscape bricks :)

Yes, I'm mixing up other movies and real life photos, 'cause, well, why not, just for fun? 

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And here is what I made with original LEGO parts.  Beware, Mr. Black Belt, if May wears pony-tale, you're in trouble :)

I'm working on it!

No, I didn't quit :)

I was building and rebuilding a lot, learning to make more solid rocks, testing whats the best way to make water and so.  And of course every time I needed some other bricks, had to order and wait for them to arrive.

Any way, I think I'm pretty close to the final look now, so it's getting hard to keep my kiddo off it :)

She did help making the ocean btw.  And it inspired her to draw :)  Pictures are below.