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…
Last week I found out about a relatively new puzzling company that makes high quality, wooden jigsaw puzzles. I have never tried a wooden puzzle up to this point because they’ve always been so expensive. It’s just cost prohibitive for me as it takes me so long to get to a new puzzle with the Life puzzle still under construction. However, this company, Artifact Puzzles, has some pretty reasonable prices. I like several of their puzzles, including Bruegel’s Netherlandish Proverbs and Kevin Sloan’s…
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….
I am happy to report that I got a nice little chunk of Mommy Free time this last weekend and it was WONDEFUL!!! It was the first completely kid free time I’ve had since Cole was born about 2.5 months ago. Randy took both kids out for several hours and gave me a break. Of course, instead of napping like I probably should have, I couldn’t wait to get in some puzzling time. I spent close to 4 hours working…
Wow, hard to believe it has been two months since I touched my puzzle! Of course, having another baby and a toddler has definitely had a huge impact on that. Plus the fact that we’ve had almost nonstop company since Cole was born. Not that I’m complaining about our growing family, lack of sleep, or the visiting relatives and friends, but it sure isn’t allowing for any puzzling time. So for the first time yesterday, I got to spend about…
After not having puzzled for more than two weeks due to baby Cole’s early arrival, imagine my surprise when my mother in law is in the kitchen day before yesterday and says, “Here’s a puzzle piece.” She pats it dry (apparently the back was a little wet) and said she had found it laying on the kitchen counter. At first I thought, oh this must be a piece from one of Derek’s puzzles, but then when I saw it I…
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…
I have made a little progress on some of the anemone areas surrounding the clownfish over the last week. It’s not a significant amount of progress, but as they say, any progress is progress, right? This evening I am planning on working on Tom and Mercedes’ mystery puzzles. I have had to put off working on it further until after I got some things done in preparation for Cole’s early arrival. I should be able to post new pictures of…
I promised Tom and Mercedes that I would not wait until I had finished the Life puzzle (Gee, I wonder why they asked me that?! LOL) to start working on the mystery puzzles gift they sent. So last night I put aside time to start laying out the many edge pieces of what has turned out to be three Thomas Kinkade puzzles all mixed together. It appears that they may be of different piece counts as well. The largest one…
So this morning I decided to begin sorting the mystery puzzle that Tom and Mercedes sent me. As I said in the last post, I thought based on looking at the pieces visible through the ziplock bag that it might be a Thomas Kinkade puzzle, and soon after I opened the bag and started sorting pieces, I was completely positive it was. I was not sure how many pieces the puzzle was as there’s no box or anything to give…