During the long winter months over the past few years, my dining room table is taken over by a jigsaw puzzle. Since I really don't want to do the same one twice, I either donate the puzzle or I use a bottle of puzzle glue to preserve the puzzle and then hot glue it to foam board. We have an unfinished basement, so my puzzles have become the décor:
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| One of my first puzzles from a few years ago |
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| My son gave me this puzzle for my birthday one year, since I love Sedona |
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| Another favorite vacation spot |
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Middle Child also loves doing puzzles, so she contributed this one  And one of these days, I'll come back and tell you what's really been going on in my life. For now, I hope you enjoy all of my hard work above. |
Donuts! Great puzzles. I'm afraid I'm not patient enough unless it's a small one.
ReplyDeleteI'm really not all that patient, but I am a determined and stubborn sort.
Deletehaha an anti PC puzzle. Now you are a true rebel. I never stuck them up before. Just threw them back in the box when done.
ReplyDeleteYou would have enjoyed Wacky Packages back in the '70's.
DeleteI also just throw them back in the box, but not before I lose three pieces.
ReplyDeleteNot really, but it seems like the few times I do a puzzle there are pieces missing.
I distinctly remember always missing a piece when I did giant puzzles as a kid. So disappointing!
DeleteWow, Bijoux, you're much more patient than I am! I could never get into puzzles. And it's cool that you're using them to decorate your basement.
ReplyDeleteTwo of my three kids hate doing puzzles, so I understand.
DeleteI didn't get in tonight until 7 PM, and my 7:30 had finished the puzzle on my dining room table (photos in a few days). When living in Michigan, I generally did a couple of puzzles a year.
ReplyDeleteI'm excited to see your puzzles now!
DeleteBRAVA! Well done! And yes, I thoroughly enjoyed looking at your hard work. OMG, I LOVE doing puzzles. I find them very therapeutic and relaxing.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea you had about using them to decorate your basement. I especially love the ones of Times Square and the one your daughter did of the donuts. How cute is that! And I can't wait to see the completion of the Wacky Package stickers!
Have a FAB week, my friend! And have fun with your puzzles!
Aren't they therapeutic? I like that I can just go work on it for 5 minutes at a time when I'm waiting on something else, like something in the oven. It's supposed to combat dementia and other signs of older age as well! The donut one makes me hungry!!
DeleteI used to love to do puzzles. In fact every Christmas my mom would give me an unusual one to make. And then the kids came along, LOL. Maybe will have to start the habit again once we move.
ReplyDeleteI love the one of Sedona as well as the other ones. Some look challenging.
It is always a challenge on what to write in a blog without giving out too much if one wants to keep an element of privacy especially if it involves others that are part of our family, etc. Most of the time when I do write about matters, there is always much more of the story not revealed. Sometimes though it is just good to get something off your chest.
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I just started doing puzzles again about four years ago. Loved them as a kid as well!
DeleteYes, you are so right about wanting to get things off your chest, but still protecting family privacy. Many times, I go back and delete posts and photos.
I used to do a lot of jigsaws as a kid, but I never do them now. I'm more of a sudoku fan. My father did a lot of jigsaws when he was recovering from a stroke, they were the only thing he could concentrate on for a while. I love the Wacky Packages one. There's nothing like that in the UK!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy doing sudoku now and then, but I can never seem to get past the beginner level. Wacky Packages were popular here in the mid-70's. I think they were like baseball cards in that you got a small pack of them with a piece of gum. The cards were actually large stickers.
DeleteStepmom was a huge lover of puzzles. Seems like we always had a card table somewhere in the house with an in-process puzzle on it. . .
ReplyDeleteI hadn't done a puzzle in years, until Jenn brought one home that she bought on a lark at a second-hand store last Christmas. The kids and I spent over a week putting it together. . .
What a fun family activity! What was the picture of your puzzle?
DeleteIt was a Lord of the Rings montage. The 'montage-ness' of it made it a good deal easier to solve, since there were distinct 'areas' of the puzzle that could be solved individually, and then assembled chunk-wise. Which, I notice, is mostly true of the puzzles you show here. Nothing wrong with that, it's just a couple notches easier.
DeleteStepmom got one once that was nothing but random black-and-white swirls. That one was devilishly hard to solve. To say nothing of hard to look at, even when we did. . .
I can enjoy a good puzzle .... alone. But alas, someone else in the household can't mind her own beeswax and let me play. "Oh, that one must go over here", "hey, why are you looking at blue pieces? I'm doing the blue!", "These are my pieces, you stay over on your pile" and on an on.
ReplyDeleteTough managing with a de-facto boss .... who always hides one piece so she can complete it.
What the heck?
DeleteHey, some people just wanna make the world burn .....
DeleteI haven't done a puzzle since I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteHow about the Vegas one?
DeleteFor a few years, when my kids were still younger, we had the tradition of doing one puzzle between Christmas and New Year's (sometimes it would stretch out for a few more days). I don't know why we stopped doing this...
ReplyDeleteLove that Wacky Packages puzzle. I came to the States in 1980, so I must have missed the popularity of those stickers.
One of my friends takes a puzzle on family beach vacations. A holiday puzzle activity would be fun.
DeleteWow, that is one good way of exercising your brain, too. :-)
ReplyDeleteGreetings from London.
That's what I was 'thinking.'
DeleteI love putting puzzles together. But then I want them dismantled and gone!
ReplyDeleteNo use hanging on to them if you don't plan on doing it again.
Deleteits really a neat idea :)
ReplyDeleteI used to make so many puzzles as a kid lately though all puzzles in my head :(
Thank you.
DeleteI'll admit, I don't have much patience for puzzles. Tara and I were working on one a couple of years ago but gave up after about an hour because it was nowhere near completion yet. What can I say? There were Bloody Marys to be had!
ReplyDeleteAn hour?? Well, I don't sit that long for anything, either. I like to work on it in 10 minute increments. Makes it last all winter. I finished Wacky Packages yesterday!
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