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,…
I know most of you probably think that I’ve given up on the puzzle and I’m never going to finish. However, that is not the case. I have not worked on it in months, that’s true, but I am still thinking about it a lot and trying to figure out when I can get back to it again. I am hoping this weekend will be my first puzzling opportunity since September! We have some friends coming over to celebrate New…
I’m trying to figure out a way to teach my 6-month-old son to know the difference between Mon – Fri and the weekend. LOL Doesn’t he realize that if mommy stays up until 12:30 a.m. working on the puzzle that he should just automatically sleep until 8 a.m. even though he went to bed at 7:30 p.m. the night before? LOL I just don’t understand why this is not happening – what am I doing wrong here? 🙂 Anyway, I…
I finally feel like I’ve made a little bit of progress with the puzzle. I have been able to work on it for a couple of hours over the last two evenings after Derek has gone to bed. Most of the balloons are at least halfway completed now. Here’s a couple of pictures from two nights ago. A little bit of balloon detail: and The left side of this balloon was driving me nuts until I realized that I actually…