I was able to do a little work on the puzzle yesterday and even had my first, but undoubtedly not my last experience with finding a puzzle piece in a strange place. I was downstairs working on the puzzle while Derek was taking a nap. Later on when he started crying to get up, I went upstairs, bent over the crib to pick him up, and found a puzzle piece right there inside his crib! I think it had just…
No, there’s nothing wrong with my math skills – I have decided to change my strategy as far as counting the days it takes me to do the puzzle. Prior to this post, I was counting each day as a new day in the overall total length of time I’ve had the puzzle, but then I realized that’s kind of stupid since there are times when a week goes by without my even touching it. So today I figured out…
I’m going to try an experiment when I get my table back. As you can see in the pictures from previous posts, the puzzle barely fits the table width wise. The puzzle is about 42″ x 60″, and even though my table is 44″ wide the last inch on either side slopes down slightly into a carved edge. So therefore the edge pieces on the puzzle are also slanting down. I am afraid I’m going to end up losing pieces this…
So I have not made any progress on the puzzle since Sunday because my dining room table is currently being used to hold all the china and glasses from my china cabinet. My husband and a friend of ours are supposed to move the china cabinet to another wall in our dining room so that I can do a large wall art project on the wall where it currently sits. Hopefully it will get moved tonight so I can get back…
This morning I placed the balloons that were mostly done onto the puzzle board. It was a good feeling to finally see some parts come together for the overall picture and actually attach some of it to the border. Yippee!!! I still find it amazing how big some of the balloons are when you put them together, and how little space they take up in the overall picture.
Like I said in my last post, I haven’t been working on the puzzle too much lately. I’m only averaging about 20 to 30 minutes a day since I finished sorting so I guess it’s no surprise that I haven’t gotten too far. However, I’m thoroughly enjoying the time I do get to spend. I’m still working on the hot air balloons, but I wanted to post some pics of my progress. I have a few more hot air balloons started,…
Wow! I certainly haven’t been keeping up the posts like I said I was going to on a daily basis. Oh well, I guess that’s life with a five and a half month old. I haven’t gotten to work on it much even when he’s asleep because I want to try and spend at least a couple of hours with my husband in the evening before we go to bed. I’m not trying to win any fastest finish contests anyway. …
I am happy to report that I have just finished sorting (first pass through anyway) the first section! Now I can actually start putting the puzzle together. Well that is once my son goes down for his next nap. I had literally just put the final pieces into their appropriate bucket when he started crying that he wanted to get up and be fed. LOL My next task is to roll out the puzzle mat onto the dining room table…
I now have close to 3,000 pieces sorted (half of the first section) into my buckets and I have decided that anyone who mixed all 24,000 pieces together before starting their sorting process is completely and certifiably NUTS! LOL Sorting takes forever! I know in the end I will thank myself because I’ll have a lot less pieces to look through later when trying to put together a particular picture element, but holy cow is it tedious work right now….
Well, I was able to do more sorting once my son went to bed Saturday night, but I didn’t feel like I made all that much progress. I sorted maybe 1,500 pieces into my various buckets and then called it a night. On Sunday we had company over in the afternoon to watch a movie in our recently completed media room. I was able to sort more pieces while watching the movie. (FYI — The Informant is a big thumbs…