One of my favourite craft-for-charity events of the year is now open for donations – Softies for Mirabel, hosted by Meet Me At Mikes!

If you haven’t heard of this appeal previously, Meet Me At Mikes is collecting handmade softies of all kinds on behalf of the Mirabel Foundation. Mirabel is a charitable organisation that seeks to provide support to children who have been orphaned or abandoned due to parental drug abuse. They provide an amazing, invaluable, life-changing service. The softies collected via this appeal will be distributed to children being cared for via Mirabel at Christmas.

The key date to remember is 7th December 2010 – please get your softie donations to Mikes by this date. All the important info on where to send your softies can be found here.

If you are looking for some softie-making inspiration, please do have a wander over to my other little blog – softiemaking.com – for links to free patterns and softie-making tips. I promise to update it with more links this month :-)

Sign-ups for Softies for Mirabel are open over here. And don’t forget to spread the word!

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What a fantastic response received so far on the Lego Game: Creationary giveaway! So sweet that kids are leaving comments too :-) Go over here for more details on how you can enter the  giveaway.

I have great memories of playing with Lego as a child. It’s one of those toys that you can spend hours on and it’s exponentially better when you have others to play it with you. Amongst other things, I loved making jet fighter planes out of Lego with my cousins :-)

Lego recently launched a range of Games and I was sent the ‘Creationary‘ game to try out with the girls.

Creationary is much like the classic Pictionary but with Lego :-) You roll the dice, which is covered in different categories, and then pick a card (Easy, Medium Difficulty or very Difficult). You then use the Lego to make the object on the card, belonging to category you’ve rolled on the dice. And the other players try to guess what it is!

There are other modes of play depending on the number of players in the game. It’s recommended for children 7 years and older, and I think kids younger than this would still enjoy the game but would need some extra help with recreating some of the objects (like my girls did). However, it does mean that big kids (like you and me!) can join in too!

I think it’s a really fun twist to your standard board game and a great excuse for the whole family to play with some Lego :-)

And the good news is that Lego are generously offering two Creationary games to giveaway!!

If you’d like to be in the running to win, just a leave comment on this post by midnight, Friday 8th October (AEST). In your comment, let me know what board game you’d love to see incorporated with Lego. Next Sunday, two winners will be drawn randomly.

Thanks Lego!