They thought they would get the best of me, but NO, I would not let that happen. The dreaded, but gorgeous clownfish are now finished with a couple of minor pieces still to find somewhere (still worried about the solid orange one….I am 99% sure it’s officially missing). I made a ton of progress in the last two days. Amazingly enough, yesterday I got to work on it a bit while Derek was awake. He kept coming in and out…
Okay, now before you go thinking that I’m getting all philosophical and religious, let me explain… As I posted in my previous entry, I believe I have run into my first official “missing” piece. It’s the solid orange piece going into the tail fin of one of the orange clownfish. I have searched and searched through all my remaining pieces and cannot find it. Then, a couple of days ago I discovered the blog of a fellow “Life” puzzle enthusiast,…
If only I could have about 1 to 2 days of uninterrupted puzzling time (at least 6 to 8 hours in a day), I think I could have this baby finished! It’s getting a lot easier to find the pieces now that I don’t have nearly as many of the same color to look through. The clownfish are becoming much easier to complete; although, I am fairly certain I may have officially run across my first missing piece. :o( It’s…
I’m happy to report that I am finally making some good headway with the clownfish. It was really SLOW going there for a while, but I have made some really great progress in the last couple of days and I’m pleased with the results. I don’t know how many pieces I have left, but I am definitely confident that I have less than 1,000 pieces left now….just not sure how much less.
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…