Okay, I’ve finally gotten the pictures taken to bring everyone up to speed as to where I am now with the puzzle. I finished the mountains between the animals and hot air balloons. Just a couple of pieces here and there that haven’t been found yet, but I’m sure they will turn up eventually. Here’s a couple of pictures of the completed mountain range. And now it all comes down to the clownfish…like I said in an earlier post, they…
I have come to realize why I subconsciously put off doing the clownfish until the end, even though I said numerous times that I would do them in the beginning right after the border and hot air balloons were completed, they are a HUGE PAIN IN THE ARSE! LOL As most people before me on the Life Hall of Fame website will attest to, this is definitely going to be the most challenging part of this section. The colors are…
As promised, I am posting the most recent pictures of the puzzle progress as of today. As you can see I never did follow my own advice and work on the clownfish. I ended up finishing the animals and then doing the animals coming out of the water and the water line itself. And now, I have started working on filling in the sky and mountains around the hot air balloons. LOL So it looks like I ended up saving…
Wow! It has been a long road to get to this point, but I am happy to report that my family and I are finally settled into our new home in metro Atlanta. We closed on our new home on September 13th, moved in on September 14th, and have been busy as all get out ever since! LOL Here’s a quick recap: We worked endlessly trying to get the house unpacked and ready for the onslaught of both Randy’s and…
Because I have no access to my puzzle until we close on the new house (September 13th) and get our stuff delivered from storage, I thought I would go back and re-read / edit this blog. I wanted to fix any typos and re-word some posts. While doing this I discovered a few interesting things: 1) When I purchased this puzzle, my son was a 5-month-old infant. He’s now almost 2-1/2 years old and I’ve just barely started to scratch the…
After looking at the “Double Retrospect” puzzle by Ravensburger again, and reading a few blogs from people who have either completed or are currently working on it, I have decided it’s not quite as ugly as I first thought. LOL I still don’t have any desire to purchase and do this one myself, but I can at least find a few cool things about it now. I guess part of why I didn’t like it initially is that it doesn’t…
Well clearly I’ve made just about ZERO progress since my last post which was over a year ago! So many things have happened over this last year that has prevented me from working on this project. Here’s a few of the many things: Randy changed jobs, we lived in a hotel in southern CA for 8 weeks, we relocated to Atlanta and started commuting back and forth every couple of months to our house in Florida until it sold, finally,…
Haven’t posted progress in a while as we were really busy getting ready for Derek’s first birthday party with lots of cupcake baking and decorating (Seasame Street characters) and then getting the house ready for the party. Now that that is over and done, I am back at the puzzle. Still some slow progress as Derek was sick for a while, hubby was sick for a bit, and now I’ve gotten it too. No fun at all. Here are some…
Okay, I’m finally on a good streak of getting to work on the puzzle a bit more. I’ve spent about a week working on it again and have made some pretty good progress on the animals as you can see below. Here’s a bit more of a close up of the animals. I’m still amazed at how small the animals look on the puzzle poster and how big they actually are when you put them on the puzzle board. I’m…
Finally! A chance to work on the puzzle for several days in a row. It was in small increments, but nonetheless, some progress at last. Close ups of the mostly finished balloon section. The balloons are mostly done now with all the pieces I have managed to find in my initial sorting. I am sure there are a ton more pieces mixed in with the clown fish as it was sometimes hard to tell where it went. When I started the sorting,…