Wednesday 02-08-17

On February 8, 2017March 22, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

Mufasa! It didn’t take as long as I thought it would and most of the pieces were easy to find within the container of sky pieces. Of course, waking up at 2:45 am helped too. Can’t sleep? Might as well puzzle. It’s much quieter than watching tv, so I don’t worry about waking anyone up.

Doesn’t he look awesome though? I know it isn’t great photography, but I’m doing my best with weird lighting and a camera phone. I love that he’s in the clouds looking down on his family, and the colors are just gorgeous! It’ll be even better looking once the whole sky is finished, there are still some great shades of blue and clouds that are almost a dark pink – gonna be fabulous!

More sky tomorrow, and perhaps some work on Pride Rock. Depends on my mood, I think. If I’m cranky and tired and feeling contrary I’ll probably do whatever it is I feel like – damn the plans! I’m feeling tired, cranky and contrary right now, can you tell? 😕

Tuesday 02-07-17

On February 7, 2017March 22, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

The edge has been constructed, and I am ready to start work on the sky. I know it’ll take a while and won’t be super easy, but I also know it’s going to look amazing when it’s done! Can’t wait to see that big Mufasa in the sky looking down over everyone. Stunning!

Was up at 3:45 this morning so I got a LOT more done than I thought I’d be able to, but that also means I’m done with this for the day. I plan on spending the rest of the day in bed and will start fresh with the sky tomorrow.

I hope you’re having a great day wherever you are! Working on any fun puzzles?

I was adding new puzzles to my wish list at one of the online shops I purchase from, and the total so far was $280. Oh my! 😮 It’s just a list though, I didn’t order anything! Yet.

Monday 02-06-17

On February 6, 2017March 22, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

I’ve almost got the edges done! I should be able to get it mostly finished tomorrow. *fingers crossed* I have a crappy schedule tomorrow where I will have to be gone most of the day so I’m hoping to at least have enough time in the morning to sit for a while with a nice cup of coffee and get the edges finished.

It’s going pretty quickly. Of course there are always the missing pieces where you think “How could I not have pulled that one?” But it’s like that for me most of the time, so it isn’t too upsetting. I just laugh at myself and try to remember that I really need to schedule an appointment to get some new glasses. 🙂

Sunday 02-05-17

On February 5, 2017March 22, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle Progress6 Comments

Looking good, right? Dark blue is done and twinklies are begun!

The dark blue went relatively quickly today, and it’s always fun seeing the missing pieces being filled in and a whole section coming together. Everything assembled on the board is just over 1100 pieces, but it sure doesn’t look like that many in photos. In person it’s huge and looks like the giant puzzle that it is, but in photographs it just looks like a regular sized puzzle and it is difficult to see the scale. I keep racking my brain to figure out something to add to the board to show the scale, but it never really looks right in the pictures. I could lay diagonally across the board with my head in one corner and my feet towards the other and there would still be over 11 inches of extra room! It’s a big board!

More work on the twinklies tomorrow. Nothing exciting, just trying to keep on making progress every day. I’m excited to start working on the Mufasa in the sky, I think it’s gonna be gorgeous! I have to be patient and wait till I’ve got the twinklies done, but I’m really looking forward to it. Perhaps it’ll make the work on the edges go faster. 😉

Confection Street

On February 5, 2017December 28, 2019 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles2 Comments

Today is my Grama’s birthday. Since she’s been on my mind, especially since last week’s National Puzzle Day post I decided to do a post on this puzzle. It belonged to Gram. My mom decided to keep this puzzle of hers to assemble and glue. Mom did most of the assembly, but I did help and I glued and helped frame it.

Charles Wysocki’s artwork is a favorite, so this was an obvious choice to keep and it is a mosaic puzzle which was interesting to us, we’ve never seen that before. This is a Milton Bradley puzzle made in the 70’s. While doing research to find the name of this image I found that Milton Bradley made a few of these mosaic puzzles. I can’t imagine they were popular or a good seller, because OH MY GOODNESS was it horrible to work!

The pieces are in square shapes as you can see from the picture above, and nothing clicks together. This may seem like a good idea in theory, it looks like a mosaic tile work, how fun! NOPE. Every piece just lays next to the adjacent piece and heaven forbid you bump the table or the puzzle itself! We had to be extremely careful, and even the gluing was a chore and required both of us.

While we enjoyed the artwork and the pieces were thick enough, those were the only good things about this puzzle. A mosaic puzzle is not a good idea in my opinion, there needs to be some way to attach the pieces together or it just becomes a chore and is not fun at all. Fun is the reason we do puzzles in the first place!

This was a puzzle that belonged to Grama though, and that’s why we assembled it. My mother and I both love puzzles because of her, what a great gift! Thanks Gram, Happy Birthday!