My good friend Ellen is due the credit for turning me on to this fabulous writing duo and boy am I grateful she did! Even though she had read most of the books in the series already, she suggested I start with The Cabinet of Curiosities since it could be read as a stand alone book without having to have any previous knowledge of the characters, plots, etc., and she knew I would probably like it a lot. Personally, I think…
Over the last few weeks, you may have noticed some changes on the blog – alright, yes, unless you’re blind, you noticed. LOL For quite some time now (a couple of years at least), I have wanted to make the blog feel a little more “puzzle themed”. Unfortunately, I could never find a blogger template that looked like what I was envisioning in my head. I wanted it to look like the blog of a jigsaw puzzle enthusiast – not…
In the almost four years that I’ve been doing this blog, I have had the opportunity and pleasure to meet a lot of wonderful people from all over the world. It’s always so much fun to talk with others who share the same passion for jigsaw puzzles that I do, and it also almost always turns out that we have lots more than just jigsaw puzzles in common. About a year or so ago I “met” Lani who is from…
This page will focus on another hobby of mine – organizing. I love to organize things and take before / after pictures. Making things look nice and neat is a lot of fun and very rewarding. I will be on a mission this fall to get my house completely organized from the top down. Wish me luck, and follow along!
This page is where I will be posting recipes and sharing tips / techniques and instructions on some of the recipes that my husband and I love to make. We are both into cooking. As of right now, he is the main entree cook (I play sous chef), and I do all the baking and most of the breakfast type meals (he plays sous chef here when I need it).
Until I joined the Big Jigsaw Puzzle Collection group on Flickr, I really never liked or gave much thought to fine art puzzles. After joining and looking at the collections of some of the members, especially the owner and administrator of the group, Billsville Mike, I started to like a few of more classic art puzzles. And now, almost a year later, I am hooked on the classic art puzzles and have a bunch on my wish list. Unfortunately, most…
If you have followed my blog for any length of time then you know I love Nicky Boehme puzzles! Her style reminds me quite a bit of Thomas Kinkade so it’s probably no surprise that I love her work so much. :o) I have several small Christmas scenes by her, but this one is a biggie and one that I had been wanting since the first day I saw it. I got it last year using an Amazon gift card…
Another puzzle that I had on my wish list is crossed off, and I realized that I never added it to the blog…shame, shame, shame! I got this beauty from someone on Craigslist. She had done the puzzle herself and was looking to pass it on to another enthusiast – enter, me. I got it for a great price ($50 including shipping), and am quite happy about it. It will be quite some time before I get to this one…
Several people in my Big Puzzle Collection group on Flickr decided to try a group project and do the same puzzle at the same time. We selected the 4,000 piece “Wedding Feast at Cana” puzzle by Clementoni. A beautiful painting that has been made into several different size puzzles by several manufacturers over the years. It is by Paolo Veronese, and you can read more about the painting by clicking here. I first saw this painting when Tom over at sexdrugsandjigsawpuzzles…
I don’t know why, up until this very moment, I have never shared something that has become a big part of my puzzling life – the Flickr Big Puzzle Group that I belong to! I found this group through Tom of sexdrugsandjigsawpuzzles.com fame, and I have been hooked ever since. Basically it is a group of like minded people (in this case those who love to assemble large jigsaw puzzles) from around the world who come together through this group…