Instead of boring you with tons of photos of what the kids did the entire time we were there, I'll just give you a little taste of what was inside. I'm always amazed by what can be created with those little bricks.

Any of you a football fan?

A few billboards on the sides of the buildings caught my attention. This one was about 3" x 4". I just might have to recreate this one for my own house.

Don't you love this one?

There were a few different areas for the kids to explore including this Lego City Fire Academy play area.

It is where Sunshine spent the majority of her time.

Jammer was happiest continuing to make different cars and racing them down the track.

Even the Daddy-o spent a bunch of time creating his various race cars.

Granted they are Pink which was the color for February but at least I got them both done.

Then I started on the quilts for the Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge. Knowing what else is on my plate for the coming months, I purposely chose patterns that are very quick and easy to complete.

You'll remember that I'm using 2 charm packs of Moda's Grow With Me.

I picked the adorable and very popular Charm Pack Baby Quilt patten by Elizabeth of Oh Franson! I split up the charms because I want one of the quilts to be decidedly girly and the other to be definitely boyish. This is how far I got with the girl version that evening. Now I'm just waiting for the sashing/binding and backing yardage to arrive to finish this up.

Sunday morning, after a relaxed breakfast and some catching up on emails, I quickly pieced the rows together for the boy version. Sewing these up took no time at all. It actually took longer to decide which piece would go where.

We had no plans to go anywhere so right after lunch I started on the 3rd quilt for the challenge. I'm using this fat quarter stack of Pat Bravo's Spellbound by Art Gallery Fabrics.

I'm using the Yellow Brick Road pattern from Atkinson Designs. Now I totally understand why so many people say that this is a great 1st quilt pattern for new quilters. It is so simple and fast and it produces great results.

I was able to put together all of the blocks in a matter of a couple of hours. Now all I need to do is to lay them out in rows and sew them all together. Of course I'm waiting on another package to arrive with this quilt's coordinating border/binding and backing fabric so once it arrives these all will be on their way to completion.

I hope you too had a great weekend. It felt so good to get so much accomplished. I'm linking up today with

This finish calls for a huge Whoop Whoop because not only did I finish this but it is the very 1st purse/tote/bag that I have ever made and it turned out great!

I started with the pattern and these 2 Kate Spain Terrain fabrics. If you want your own copy of Bobbi's Just Right bag pattern, it can be found here.

It's that time of year. The annual Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge hosted by the fabulous Sarah of Confessions of A Fabric Addict.

This time last year I was knee deep in making a boatload of quilts...2 for the school's annual silent auction fundraiser, 1 for a new baby and 4 for the teacher end of year thank you gifts so I wasn't able to help out with this challenge last year. But I'm definitely participating this year.

Since I've got a few other projects on the burner, I know that whatever I plan to do, they must be fast and relatively easy. I started where I typically do at times...flipping through my 3 binders of patterns purchased, downloaded from the internet and saved from magazines, for some ideas and inspiration. Using a pattern designed by someone else is definitely faster than designing one myself.

I pulled out a stack of options and then took a look at what fabrics I already have to work with. This is the precut and coordinating bundle drawer of my stash dresser.

This is my bigger yardage and coordinating bundle overflow drawer. I already have plans for some of these fabrics but not all of them.

And this is my general stash drawer filled mostly with fat quarters and half yard cuts. I'm not even showing you the final fabric drawer filled with Asian prints, my Halloween fabrics and my small amount of Christmas fat quarters.

I've decided to use these Grow With Me charm packs. I can get 2 baby quilts from them without having to purchase a large quantity of coordinating fabrics.

This fat quarter bundle that I recently won from Heidi at Red Letter Quilts  is also going to be turned into a quilt to send off to one of the charities. I was able to hunt down on Etsy the remainder of the fabric needed and it is already on its way to me. I can't think of a better way to Pay It Forward from this giveaway win than to use them for a charity quilt.

Because I typically plan big, IF I can finish the others up quickly, I'm also going to try to squeeze in before the deadline another quilt made from these pretty Pink and Brown fabrics.  

I had originally purchased them to make a baby girl quilt for a  neighbor but I ended up giving her the Dots in the Wind quilt instead.

Keep your fingers crossed for me that the quilting gods will shine down on me and I'll be able to whip these up speedy quick. And I'm going to quilt them myself on Penelope.

If you aren't aware of the Hand2Help Charity Quilt Challenge, hop on over to Sarah's place and read up on all the details. It is a fantastic way for quilters to give back and it doesn't take much to participate. Just commit to making 1 quilt (or more if you are able) and send it off to one of the featured charities by the June deadline. We all have UFOs or miscellaneous blocks laying around waiting for a reason to get finished so now is the time to dig them out and turn them into a beautiful quilt to keep someone else warm and wrapped in love.

Update: The swap is full!
This is the last and final call for participants for the Kate Spain Charm Swap Round 2! There are just a few 4 spots left so if you want in on this fun swap, you need to email me today to get your name on the list.

Do you want to see a sample of what you'd receive back in the mail?
 These are pictures of the 6,272 charms that arrived here last Fall for Round 1 which were then sorted and mailed back out to their new owners. You would receive back 1 charm from each of the stack of lovely fabrics. That's 112 gorgeous Kate Spain fabric charms to do whatever you want with.
 This is what they all looked like together. Isn't this just fabulous?
I've got more than 1 quilt in the planning stages for my charms.
Don't miss out! Read up on all the swap details here. Then check to see which fabrics were already used in Round 1 here and which fabrics have already been spoken for in Round 2 here.
Hurry, hurry! Send me your info today.