Terrible Week

On October 4, 2019 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzling10 Comments

It’s been a terrible week, I haven’t puzzled at all. I did touch some puzzle pieces when I started to sort the octagonal Springbok I found at mom’s house, but I just wasn’t feeling well and barely even got 50 pieces on a tray on Monday. I spent the rest of the day in bed, but then even when I was feeling a little better the rest of the week I just wasn’t in the mood for either the puzzle that was being sorted or for puzzling in general. It has just been an awful week for me.

I’ve decided to put the Springbok away for now and wait until the mood strikes me to try it again. I’m hoping to start sorting another puzzle today, but no guarantees. I’m in a funk and have yet to get myself out of it. Tomorrow I’m supposed to go through a bunch more of mom’s puzzles and more of her things, and I have to say – not looking forward to it.

I’d better get my a** in gear, I’m running out of puzzles to post again.

Peppers

On October 3, 2019 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles2 Comments

This one was hard! It’s only 300 pieces, but the image made it very difficult. I knew that going in, but I love the colors and thought it would be entertaining to assemble – it was.

I started with the purple, then the yellow peppers and the ties at the top. After that it was mostly just reds and greens, and I had to pay close attention. It was a lot of fun, even if I had to exercise my brain a bit. (It’s good for us older people to keep our brains sharp, and I do my best 👵)

Photographic images aren’t ones I usually go for, but this one was so bright and pretty, I couldn’t resist it.

Miffed Waitress

On October 2, 2019 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles2 Comments

I love this image so much, especially the look on her face. And the fact that her name tag says “Joy” is even funnier! Not only did she get an extremely small tip, they left it in spilled coffee – this whole thing cracks me up. 🙂

This was the last of four 100 piece puzzles that my daughter and I found while out puzzle shopping. I’m a little sad that there aren’t any more to do, they were so much fun and the images were all adorable and amusing. I’d love to find more of them.

Whitby Harbour, North Yorkshire

On October 1, 2019 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles3 Comments

My youngest son picked out this puzzle for me to assemble, he seems very happy when I let him help me decide what to do next. I told him I needed a small piece count to do after assembling a 2000 piece puzzle, so he choose this one for me. It isn’t something I would normally choose to puzzle, but at 40 pieces I can tolerate pretty much any puzzle.

It’s an interesting image; it looks like a photograph, but it’s actually artwork. I enjoyed putting it together – but to be honest I constantly enjoy Wentworth puzzles no matter the image. Working with wooden puzzles is always a pleasure; it’s a tactile, visual, and even auditory experience that I absolutely love. I adore the whimsy pieces as well, looking at the fantastically intricate shapes and seeing the detail they can cut – they’re gorgeous!

Whitby whimsies

Honestly, it took me a minute to figure out what the ship was, I turned it every which was before it hit me that it was a ship. I have no excuse other than that I am getting older every day, and that includes my brain cells.

Working with wooden puzzles hasn’t stymied my love for cardboard puzzles though, I still do more of those than anything. In general I love working with all kinds of puzzles, I’m a little bit obsessed if you haven’t already noticed. 😉

Finding Treasures

On September 30, 2019 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzling4 Comments

My daughter and I spent the morning yesterday going through just a small fraction of my mom’s things, and I came across a few puzzle treasures that I brought home. Of course they’re only treasures to me, but that’s alright, I will definitely enjoy putting them together.

The coolest one that I found was a 577 piece Ceaco Holiday Silhouette called Christmas Spirit by Susan Winget that has velvet-backed pieces; it has an irregular border and whimsy pieces too. It still looks in great condition, and I’ll be assembling it closer to the holidays.

There was also a 504 piece quiz jigsaw puzzle called “Who Said That?”. There are images of 240 people that you have to match with 240 famous quotes. Every quote fits every image, so you have to be sure of yourself when you match them. This is the kind of puzzle my mom and I liked to assemble together. We had the best time with others in the same vein, it was such fun to figure things out and talk over whether or not we had things matched up properly. It will be sad to do this one alone, but it will also remind me of how awesome it was that we had such a good relationship and had such fun together assembling puzzles.

In the same box of puzzles was a 1000 piece 3 foot long shaped puzzle by Spilsbury Puzzle Company called Caribbean Jewel – it’s a very bright, colorful fish-shaped puzzle. It still looks in excellent condition and I’m hoping all the pieces are there because it looks like great fun!

The one I’ll be assembling first is on octagonal Springbok called Button, Button…, I think it may have been my grama’s puzzle at one point, and I think I may have helped her put it together. It looks very familiar, and I can’t get over the feeling that I assisted either mom or gram assembling it. This time it’ll be just me though, I hope it isn’t too difficult to do by myself. 😉