This last week I received a couple of puzzles that I found used on Craigslist for a very cheap price. It turns out that Craigslist is an amazing place to find good deals on puzzles. You have to do a nationwide search of course as it’s unlikely that you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for if you only search your own local region, but I’ve found that most people are willing to ship their puzzle to you, even when you’re…
Wow! I can’t believe it’s been a month since I last updated the blog. It has been super busy around the house, and I honestly haven’t gotten in a good deal of time lately. Lots of company in and out….Derek, Cole, and I all had strep throat at the same time (THAT was fun!!), and poor Derek also got Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease (really, just a virus not an actual disease). We’re also in the process of re-doing our…
Section 3 is well underway, even though I have not posted anything recently, I have been getting in some good puzzling time. I got some new “working boards” that are small, but sturdy and have really allowed me to work on the puzzle in the evenings while still spending time with Randy. Good start on the fishies! I just bring up one or two of the small working boards, and a particular bucket of pieces and work in the family…
A few months ago Randy won some sort of “movie goers” gift box from one of the movie studios (don’t recall which one). We just recently got the box and inside was a cute little 100-piece jigsaw puzzle that was the movie poster for the new Muppets movie. Today Derek asked if we could put it together. Of course I never turn down an opportunity to do a puzzle with my little boy so we got it out and started…
So I officially opened the bag for Section #3 and started sorting on April 17th. This is now my 3rd go round with the sorting, and I am finding that as I do each section, the sorting gets easier and faster, and I’m much more detailed with my buckets. I went from about 5 or 6 buckets in Section 1, 12 buckets for Section 2 to 18 or so for Section 3. This time I sorted into the following buckets:…
This week I was contacted by Baffledazzle about an exciting new puzzling project on Kickstarter. Baffledazzle puzzles take solvers on an adventure, leading them to discover something new and interesting about the world around us. Their goal is to deliver the feeling of exploration and discovery in a box, and to make visual and tactile information part of the learning experience. Hundreds of wood, acrylic, or felt puzzle pieces start you off. You start to gather clues from the piece…
Just a couple of new photos of the process of flipping Section 2 over on the puzzle board. At least this time it should go faster because I’ve done this process once and figured out the best way to flip each section over and get it back together. I anticipate I should be ready for contact papering by end of the day today. Here’s a couple of pictures… Preparing the mini section for removal from rest of puzzle. The extracted…
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…