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. 🙂
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 by Charles Wysocki – Milton Bradley (Mosaic) – 300 pieces
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. Â 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!
Every piece I pulled out for the filmstrip is into place, and it seems huge! I mean, this isn’t my first rodeo, but for some reason having the filmstrip in place makes this section seem so much bigger. I have no idea why, it makes no sense whatsoever. I have assembled every single section on this board, so for it to seem like a different size is ridiculous. Perhaps my not sleeping this week is catching up with me and I’m hallucinating slightly. I have no other explanation. (On the plus side though, at 1 am when I couldn’t sleep I was getting a head start on the filmstrip for today) 🙂
That said, I’m enjoying this section already and am looking forward to getting back into the groove of being able to work on it every day. I’m struggling right now with being physically able to work on it, but I’m doing my best to keep a good attitude and just put in a few pieces whenever I feel I can. Hakuna Matata 😉
Tomorrow will be the dark blue/edges, and depending on how that goes I may be able to get started on the twinklies on the remaining two sides. It finally feels like I’ve actually gotten started on The Lion King, and I’m raring to go!
Not the best picture, I know. Sorry. Still having difficulty working on the puzzle, but I was able to start the filmstrip this morning. There’s plenty more left to do, but at least I made progress, right?
It was so nice to get back to puzzling, even though I only had a limited amount of time to work on it both yesterday and today. It’s been a while since I worked on a corner section, I forgot how much filmstrip there is on a corner! That’s a plus for me though, because I think the filmstrip is the most fun part. 🙂 Each little “cell” can have anywhere between 9-18 pieces, depending on placement and if it’s folded or not. The majority of cells have approximately 12 pieces, and it’s like putting together a little mini puzzle within the puzzle. I love that!
I hope to be feeling well enough to make more progress tomorrow and have an amazing picture to show for it. Fingers crossed!
My Jigsaw Journal 