I am thrilled to announce that on February 2, 2019 at 11:40 p.m. I happily placed the final piece into my glorious 24,000 piece Life puzzle. My life is now complete! ??? Wow, what an incredible ride this has been! For more than 8.5 years I have been dutifully working on this big, beautiful beast of a puzzle. I have thoroughly enjoyed every moment I have spent working on it. I never once thought I would give up, or that…
You know it’s a bad sign when it’s been so long since you’ve posted anything on your blog that you can’t even remember how to get it into it to create a new post! Yep, that was me a few minutes ago… Luckily I didn’t take me very long to remember, but holy cow it has been over 2 years since my last post…that is insane! I probably have no readers / followers left anymore, but that’s okay. I’m sure…
I was recently contacted by Games2Puzzles, a small online puzzle company from Randolph, New Jersey and asked if I would write a blog posting with a few links in exchange for some free product. Well – heck yeah! :o) And in this particular case, I was very pleasantly surprised by what I saw on their website and what I received as samples. The items arrived in excellent condition, and it was a quick turnaround from the time we first connected…
Wow, it has been a really long time since I posted, I know. As usual, my life gets in the way of my puzzling time, and my blogging time. The holidays are finally over, and what a whirlwind it has been. My in-laws were here for a visit, and we also celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary while they were here. A house full of company is a lot of fun is also very TIRING! LOL Randy and I are still…
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…