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…
As I’ve said before, I am now at a point with Section 3 that it’s very difficult to work on it in the family room where I can also spend time with Randy. The remaining pieces are scattered throughout the section, and make it difficult to work on outside of the puzzle room. So, I decided to start sorting Section 4 and get some of the bigger areas out of the way that I can work on up in the…
I have always been in love with big city skylines, especially skycrapers, and building architecture in general for as long as I can remember. As a child I used to check out books from the library about skyscrapers, and from a very young age I dreamed of going to New York City – especially for my honeymoon. 3,000 pcs. – New York City – Educa 1,500 pcs. – New York City – Ravensburger Of course what I didn’t know growing…
My sister Debbie sent me a puzzle for my birthday this year. It was very sweet of her – I called and thanked her of course, and told her that any time she wants to send me a puzzle, it’s A-okay with me! LOL I can’t honestly say that it’s one of my favorite scenes, but it should be fun to do anyway. I will do the puzzle, and then probably sell it as I don’t really have any desire…
I don’t know what’s wrong with me lately…I have been working on the puzzle a little each day, and haven’t posted anything new on the blog in awhile. Shame on me! I can’t say as I have a good excuse for it either…life is always busy around here, but nothing more than usual. I have been focusing the work of late to the under sea area, and I’ve made quite a bit of progress from the last update, I think….
At my baby shower for my firstborn son, Derek, I received a very cute stuffed blue dog as a gift. I cannot even recall at this point who it was that gave it to us, but ironically, I had given the same dog to a girlfriend of mine a few weeks earlier for her first baby shower. I began showing Derek the dog and laying it beside him as we played on the floor very early on, and it wasn’t…
It’s been awhile since I actually wrote a puzzle related post for this “puzzle” blog, so I figured I’d better get back to the main reason why I started this in the first place – my Life puzzle! In my Flickr Big Jigsaw Puzzle group, one of the members always takes photographs of his completed puzzles with a little rubber chicken named Evelene. Now, I don’t know the story behind how Evelene came to be, but I have always thought…