As I mentioned in the last post, I finished Section 2 on Sunday evening, and last night I was so anxious to work on something puzzle related that I pulled out my 2,000 piece Vegas, Baby puzzle that I had started back in 2009 before we moved from our first house in Lake Mary, FL. It was one of the first puzzles I bought and started working on after getting my first puzzle roll. I had completed about 50% of…
SECTION 2 IS FINISHED!!! Woo Hoo! Today, April 13, 2014, marks the completion of Section 2 and 50% of the entire puzzle. Wow, it doesn’t seem possible that I am finally halfway done, but at the same time it also seems like I’ve been working on this project FOREVER! LOL Here are my overall statistics… Section 1: 2 years, 8 months and 10 days assembly time Section 2: 1 year and 11 days assembly time Section 3: Goal is to…
It’s amazing what a little alone time three days a week can do for a puzzling momma! I have been getting in at least an hour or so on these days and it has been wonderful. It’s also getting a lot easier since I have a lot less pieces to weed through to find the right one as I get closer and closer to the end. Here are a couple of picture updates. As you can see, all that remains…
I can’t believe that I have gotten to work on the puzzle multiple times this week – it makes me sooo happy. Between yesterday and today I was able to place well over 200 pieces, I think. Very excited about that. I have also set a new goal for myself so that I can finish this section up in a timely manner and then take a small puzzling break to do a thorough spring cleaning of my house, and to…
It’s been three weeks since Derek started school, and I’m so pleased to report that each day it has gotten a little easier than the previous time. He still likes me to stay with him for a few minutes or “10 and 5 minutes” as he likes to say. LOL I usually sneak out after just a few minutes and he seems to be doing okay with that. So, each day I have been getting in at least 45 minutes…
Today was Derek’s official first day of preschool, and it surprisingly did not start off well. For months on end, we heard nothing but “I wanna go to school….when can I go to school?”….etc from him. But then right before he had his “try it out – discovery day” at school back in January, he started saying that he didn’t want to go. So we kind of dropped it for a while. Then as scheduled, he started this morning. We…
Happy 2014 everyone! The year is off to a good start as I have been lucky enough to get in a little bit of puzzling time this week. Cole is sleeping through the night most nights so I’ve been getting a little more sleep lately which certainly helps with enabling me to get in some puzzling time once in a while. I haven’t posted new progress pictures in quite some time I know, so here are the latest and greatest….
They were both Christmas presents for my son, Derek this year. He desperately wants to help me with my Life puzzle, but Mommy is still a little gun shy on letting him help with that one just yet. So, instead we worked on two puzzles together this week. The first one, a Peanuts theme featuring Snoopy was 35 pieces, and almost made me want to go camping – not quite though! LOL The other one, Spiderman with friends and foes,…
Hello to all of Penny’s readers! My name is Matthew, I’m the writer and researcher for Puzumi. We’re a puzzle company that prides itself on creating puzzles that help people train their brain, sharpen their skills and let folks have fun while doing this! A big focus of mine of late has been looking at how puzzles impact children during their development. From their earliest moments when they begin using puzzles that are simple cutouts of basic shapes, to more…
Conversation with my almost 4-year-old son yesterday, “Mommy, can I have a piece of candy?” “Sure, Derek. Get one piece out of your Halloween bowl.” A minute later, “Mommy, look….a puzzle piece!” What?! My missing piece from Kevin Sloan’s The Messenger has been found! I wonder how it got in Derek’s Halloween stash?! It’s wood so I don’t think it would have tasted too much like 100 Grand bar. Hmmmm…….