Many people have asked me over the last 8.5 years things like, “what are you going to do with it when its done?”, “where are you going to put it?”, etc. All very good questions and the answers have changed multiple tines over the years since starting Life: The Great Challenge in July 2010. Click here to read my very first post about this puzzle and the start of this blog. Initially, I figured I would hang the puzzle in…
It’s been close to nine months since I put the last piece into place on the 24,000 piece Life: The Great Challenge puzzle, and tonight I FINALLY moved it off the table and took pictures of it mostly assembled. I have not connected the sections yet as the final section is very weak from a bad puzzle sheets experience I had. The kids and I had to re-work about 25 pieces tonight that had come loose from the backing. I…
I am thrilled to announce that on February 2, 2019 at 11:40 p.m. I happily placed the final piece into my glorious 24,000 piece Life puzzle. My life is now complete! ??? Wow, what an incredible ride this has been! For more than 8.5 years I have been dutifully working on this big, beautiful beast of a puzzle. I have thoroughly enjoyed every moment I have spent working on it. I never once thought I would give up, or that…
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…
Well clearly I’ve made just about ZERO progress since my last post which was over a year ago! So many things have happened over this last year that has prevented me from working on this project. Here’s a few of the many things: Randy changed jobs, we lived in a hotel in southern CA for 8 weeks, we relocated to Atlanta and started commuting back and forth every couple of months to our house in Florida until it sold, finally,…
Haven’t posted progress in a while as we were really busy getting ready for Derek’s first birthday party with lots of cupcake baking and decorating (Seasame Street characters) and then getting the house ready for the party. Now that that is over and done, I am back at the puzzle. Still some slow progress as Derek was sick for a while, hubby was sick for a bit, and now I’ve gotten it too. No fun at all. Here are some…
Okay, I’m finally on a good streak of getting to work on the puzzle a bit more. I’ve spent about a week working on it again and have made some pretty good progress on the animals as you can see below. Here’s a bit more of a close up of the animals. I’m still amazed at how small the animals look on the puzzle poster and how big they actually are when you put them on the puzzle board. I’m…