After almost a month of not working on my puzzle due to being very sick with an extremely nasty flu / virus, I am happy to report that this morning I was able to start working on it again. It felt great to put in a few pieces, even though I didn’t get to spend very long with it. Now that I’m feeling pretty good again (and in the start of the 2nd trimester), I am hoping to get the…
Well as the title of this post implies, I have been sick since Tuesday with a really nasty cold / flu virus. It’s now Friday afternoon and I’m still feeling pretty lousy. And the best part is that because I’m 14 weeks pregnant, the doctor doesn’t think I need any sort of medication to get rid of what seems to me like bronchitis. He said my lungs sounded clear…how, I don’t know when I practically cough up my lungs every…
I have to say that I’m now happy that I gave the clownfish a break and started working on some of the other fish and coral on the last 1/3rd of the puzzle because I have made some good progress. All the other fishes are either complete or mostly complete now, and some of the easier colors of coral are finished as well. I am posting a picture or two below to show the progress, although I have made even…
I was frustrated with my lack of progress on the clownfish because they’re such a pain so I decided to give myself a little break and work on something else for a little while. I am happy to report that I have been much more successful in piecing together some of the other fish and one of the coral beds over the last couple of days. It feels good having gotten something accomplished that I can see immediately will make…
I am now really regretting not having tackled the clownfish sooner…wow, they are really not easy. There’s too many fish with the same coloring and it’s making it really difficult to know what goes where. Learned my lesson…I will start with the underwater city on Section 4 FIRST! 🙂 Anyway, even though I haven’t made great progress with the fish so far, I am happy to report that I did go back through my remaining pieces and discovered most of…
Okay, I’ve finally gotten the pictures taken to bring everyone up to speed as to where I am now with the puzzle. I finished the mountains between the animals and hot air balloons. Just a couple of pieces here and there that haven’t been found yet, but I’m sure they will turn up eventually. Here’s a couple of pictures of the completed mountain range. And now it all comes down to the clownfish…like I said in an earlier post, they…
I have come to realize why I subconsciously put off doing the clownfish until the end, even though I said numerous times that I would do them in the beginning right after the border and hot air balloons were completed, they are a HUGE PAIN IN THE ARSE! LOL As most people before me on the Life Hall of Fame website will attest to, this is definitely going to be the most challenging part of this section. The colors are…
As promised, I am posting the most recent pictures of the puzzle progress as of today. As you can see I never did follow my own advice and work on the clownfish. I ended up finishing the animals and then doing the animals coming out of the water and the water line itself. And now, I have started working on filling in the sky and mountains around the hot air balloons. LOL So it looks like I ended up saving…
Wow! It has been a long road to get to this point, but I am happy to report that my family and I are finally settled into our new home in metro Atlanta. We closed on our new home on September 13th, moved in on September 14th, and have been busy as all get out ever since! LOL Here’s a quick recap: We worked endlessly trying to get the house unpacked and ready for the onslaught of both Randy’s and…
Because I have no access to my puzzle until we close on the new house (September 13th) and get our stuff delivered from storage, I thought I would go back and re-read / edit this blog. I wanted to fix any typos and re-word some posts. While doing this I discovered a few interesting things: 1) When I purchased this puzzle, my son was a 5-month-old infant. He’s now almost 2-1/2 years old and I’ve just barely started to scratch the…