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Jan 26, 2011

Play Lego

Hi All.

I love Santa however this year he decided to bring the girls Lego. Why Santa would think Lego is a good idea i have no idea however the girls love it. I however hate it because whenever they get it out it ends up everywhere!!! So this morning i decided to make a Lego Mat. I started out with a plan.......
I am such an artist........almost as good as Belly!!

The plan is...... the pink at the top left corner is the storage area. You then have water and beach at the bottom, a road going around and green grass in the middle.

I then went through all my scrap material, I am getting quite a collection (still not as good as my mums however) and got out anything i thought would work.

And Turned this.......

Into This.......

Now i have no idea how to do patchwork so the next thing i did was just started at the bottom and tried to sew them together as best as i could.
 I then backed the entire thing in red ( I had a fair bit of that) If i had time and energy i could have made a different scene and made it double sided ( That is your challenge!!!) but i couldn't be bothered!!!! (yes i am that Lazy!!!!)

And presto......


Now the best part of my Awesome Lego mat is that i then sat down for an hour and played Lego with the girls. 


I have labeled all the points of interest around Lego town Click to get a larger picture.

The Lego has now successfully been played with for an hour unsupervised and it is still in the one place
YIPPEE


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5 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 26, 2011 at 11:33 PM

    Maybe it is different for girls, but with boys (8,5) the lego breeds and multiplies....worse than rabbits! Alison

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  2. Freedom23January 27, 2011 at 1:15 AM

    Hi Alison.
    Mine just gets scattered. I found it under and behind the lounge the other day after it had been out for 5 minutes.

    In case you haven't seen my giveaway take a look. If you become a follower you will go into the draw (and be the only one at the moment)

    Take a look......
    http://freedom-freedom23.blogspot.com/2011/01/giveaway.html

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  3. Rachael AdlingtonJanuary 27, 2011 at 2:08 AM

    we had a lego mat when I was a kid. It was round, but the best thing was that it had eyelets around the edge and a cord, so that you could pull the cord and tie up the end with all the lego inside. The ordinary thing was that it was grey, unlike your funky design!

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  4. Freedom23January 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM

    I wonder how hard it would be to make a funky design that had a cord on it.......hmmmm how hard WOULD that be (she thinks as she stares at all her fabric........)

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2011 at 8:46 PM

    You did a great job with the mat!

    The thing with Lego though... It breeds! I swear it's true! lol

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