Please pardon the mess!
Hi everyone! I am currently working on changing the look / feel / layout of the blog. During the process some links and areas may not work exactly right, but don’t worry, I’ll get it fixed shortly. Please bear with me!
A Baffledazzle Project
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…
Accidental Lesson Learned
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…
What Do Spiderman and Snoopy Have in Common?
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,…
JigamaWHO? Why, Jigamajoy of course!
Earlier this week, I was contacted by Mike from the Jigamajoy Company of Pine Brook, New Jersey, who has created a very unique product that combines standard playing cards and jigsaw puzzles into a really interesting puzzling experience. A few formats have several different ways to solve each puzzle and some even have math questions to help kids put the puzzle together correctly. Huh? Who would have thought of combining these two seemingly unrelated aspects of “gaming”, but it seems…
Puzzle of Life
I get a lot of catalogs. Catalogs for clothes…catalogs for kids stuff…catalogs for things I would never buy in my lifetime. However, catalogs for home decor are my favorite I have bought more home decor stuff through catalogs than any other catalog item. Most of the time I just glance at them and toss because I just can’t buy everything I like or I’d have to move out of my house to make room for all the stuff!. LOL But…
Puzzle Blogging 101
I have had this blog for over three years now and I am finally starting to actually look into optimizing the blog to gain more followers. It is simply amazing to me how much thought and work goes into making a blog successful. There are so many ways you can go about increasing your followers that it can be a little bit overwhelming. So this week I have been doing a bunch of research on best ways to do this….
Ohh, Baby Baby…
Well in case anyone is wondering why I haven’t been updating the blog much in the last couple of weeks, here’s the reason why… Day 7 — Going home today! Cole Hudson Weiss decided to make his world debut 6 days earlier than previously planned! So, on July 30th at 9:36 p.m. we welcomed him to his new world. At only 4 lbs. 13 oz. he was tiny but relatively healthy, but was having some issues maintaining blood sugar and…
Awesome Puzzle Wall
About a year or so ago when we were still trying to decide on a housing development and floor plan in the metro Atlanta area, we came across a house and floor plan that we fell in love with. Unfortunately, the development the house was located in wasn’t exactly what we were looking for so we ended up moving on. I had forgotten all about an awesome room just off the master that the model had turned into a kid’s…
Life After “Life”
I know it will be years before I complete the Life puzzle, but I am already lining up future puzzling projects that I’d like to give a shot after this one is finished. Not nearly as big as Life, but still beautiful pictures nonetheless. Here’s some of the ones I’m most interested in getting: GOOD OLD DAYS – 6,000 pieces by Nicky Boehme ASTROLOGY – 9,000 pieces by Ravensburger MAGNA CARTA – 6,000 pieces WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS – 6,000…