As most of you know, I started working on Section 4 in my family room while still finishing up Section 3 on the puzzle table in the basement. Back in April I finally finished Section 3, but until today I had not had time to sit down there and flip the section over and put contact paper on the back. Luckily, Cole took a long nap today, and Derek was willing to play in the basement while I worked to…
In mid-2013, I was given an opportunity by Artifact Puzzles to receive a free puzzle in exchange for reviewing it and saying something about my experience on the blog. I was very skeptical at first having never experienced a company who wanted to send me something for free and not have some sort of ulterior motive for getting me to purchase the puzzle later. What I didn’t realize at the time was that this is becoming a more and more popular…
In preparation for writing this blog entry, I went back and looked at two older posts, Life After “Life” and A New York State of Mind where I mentioned a bunch of puzzles that I wanted to get and do after I finished the Life puzzle. At the time I wrote the first one, back in May, 2013, I had none of the puzzles I mentioned wanting to get. Now, just over two years later, I have all of them except two! Wow…I didn’t…
Since starting this blog, I have written a couple of posts regarding my stance on Ravensburger’s 32,000 Double Retrospect which took the title of “World’s Largest Puzzle”* away from Life: The Great Challenge in September, 2010. As I stated in those posts, I really did not like the artwork on this new record holder AT ALL initially. Then, as I started to see pictures of other people putting the puzzle together, including this great blog, it started to grow on me just a…
SECTION 3 IS DONE! Wow, April really must be my month as I have completed each section of the puzzle in the month of April so far. Though, I am truly hoping to break that pattern with section 4 as I really do not want to be working on this same puzzle a year from now. As much as I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute I have spent with this beautiful beast, I am ready to move forward with something…
Remember the days when you always looked forward to the start of the new fall TV season every September? The promise of new shows to get hooked on, and the good / bad characters you would soon come to love and love to hate each and every week? I sure do. Nowadays, I am almost afraid to start watching a new show when it first premieres because nine times out of ten, it’s going to get cancelled somewhere within…
Holy Moly! How on earth did I get this far into 2015 and not post any updates on the puzzle blog?! There really is no excuse for my lack of blogging so I won’t bore you with my litany of ready excuses. Instead I will just dive in and show you pictures of the latest status. I have been able on occasion to work on Section 3 down in my puzzle room. Here is the current status of that section……
Since January of this year, I have been drooling over a new 32,000 piece puzzle that Ravensburger announced they would release in the US in September. Of course, come September, some members of the German puzzle forum that I belong to, and one of my Flickr group friends had already gotten their copies. With a hefty price tag of about $300, I knew it would be quite some time before I was able to justify the cost to Randy…no matter…
Falls Park – Greenville, SC On November 14, 2014, Randy and I celebrated our 10-year wedding anniversary. It has been a wonderful decade filled with lots of joy, some sadness, several moves, two beautiful children, and much laughter. When we were initially looking at options for our honeymoon, we were torn between Italy and Hawaii. The tour package we got for Italy (and the fact that IT WAS ITALY!) was better than the deal we could get for Hawaii, and…
I was starting to get frustrated that I wasn’t getting much time to spend on the Life puzzle because it’s difficult to tuck myself away in the puzzle room while Randy is upstairs in the family room watching TV. I want to work on the puzzle, but I also want and need to spend time with him too. So, I decided that since I can no longer work on this section upstairs in the family room easily, I would try…