When I got my first puzzle roll back in 2009, I immediately went on a puzzle buying frenzy as it had been so long since I’d been able to do any puzzles due to space limitations and usage of dining room table as mentioned in earlier posts. For some reason, I went on a Nick Boehme Christmas puzzle spree and bought five of them! I just love his artwork as much as I love Thomas Kinkade’s. I ended up buying…
This morning I was able to get in about 45 minutes with the puzzle before Derek woke up. It was nice to get a little longer length of time to puzzle at one sitting. My secondary goal of having Section 2 finished before baby Cole makes his appearance is looking less and less likely. I think I am getting close to the 50% finished mark, but we found out yesterday that Cole will be arriving a week earlier than the…
This puzzle is one that I fell in love with the first time I saw it. The colors are so vibrant and given that its a Ravensburger, I know this one will be a pleasure to put together. I couldn’t pass up the good deal I got on this puzzle from Craigslist. It was only $40 plus flat rate USPS shipping so not too bad. The puzzle is used, but appears to be complete and includes the poster. The seller,…
Here are some of the first pictures of this beautiful puzzle. I will not be starting the build on this one for some time yet as I want to finish the Life puzzle first, but I love looking at the pieces and feeling them as they’re just so much nicer than the Educa pieces of the Life puzzle. The big box! 4 Historic World Maps Poster 18,000 pieces in all its glory! The puzzle pieces are so nice and luxurious…
4 Historic World Maps – 18,000 pieces – Ravensburger I saw this puzzle quite some time ago, even before I bought the Life puzzle, and I loved the looks of it. My house is decorated with an Old World style and I knew the artwork from this puzzle would fit right in with my decor. The main reason I never purchased it was because of the solid gold border around each map. It looked impossible with so many pieces being…
For the last month I have been adding a couple of puzzles to my collection to work on after Life is finished. My first purchase was for a 5,000 piece puzzle that my puzzling friends, Tom and Mercedes in the USVI, recommended. I found it on Craigslist for $20 plus shipping. When I was first looking at the puzzle online, I didn’t really care for the picture, but then as I saw their blog entries and pictures while putting it…
I received a very nice surprise yesterday from my puzzling friends, Tom and Mercedes. A puzzle of course! I immediately opened the box to find an even bigger surprise inside….what do you see? Or, should I say what don’t you see? No puzzle box or picture! So what is it a jigsaw picture of?! Hmmmmm…. The only thing I can tell from looking at the pieces is that it appears that it could be a Thomas Kinkade puzzle. They know…
I’m not getting enough time at any given puzzling session to really make much progress which is frustrating. I think tonight I’m going to try and bring a section of the puzzle upstairs so I can work on it even if Randy wants to watch a movie or something. This way I can be with him, but still move forward on the puzzle. I got in about 30 minutes this morning before Derek woke up. I guess it’s better than…
This is an example of my luck….for the first time all week I got up early to work on the puzzle before Derek woke up. I literally had been in the room for less than 5 minutes and he decided to wake up early (6:30 a.m.). I decided to just let him talk and babble in his bed for another 10 minutes or so while I knocked out a few pieces. I counted them at the end and looks like…
Hmmm….I wonder if I can qualify for some sort of “longest amount of time to finish Life puzzle” award? LOL I am making very slow, but progressive progress on Section 2. Sorry I haven’t updated in a while, but haven’t been working on it much due to being sick a lot. Hoping (fingers, toes, and eyes crossed) that this is it for a while. I’m tired of being sick! The last couple of mornings, I worked on the puzzle a little…