Friday 12-16-16

On December 16, 2016March 24, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

It’s moving along quickly now, I’m getting to the end of the pieces without twinklies. There are a lot less pieces to go through now and it’s much easier to find exactly what I’m looking for. I didn’t spend much time on the puzzle today at all and I put in about the same number of pieces that I did yesterday. 😮

I should be able to have it finished in 3 or 4 days. Depending on how I’m feeling and if I get any help. Just have to finish the regular pieces and then it’s on to the twinklies! I’m excited about finishing this one because it will be the halfway point. I’m surprised at how much I’m enjoying it and how much I’ve accomplished already. Not bad for someone whose largest puzzle completed previously was 2000 pieces! What in the world made me want to accomplish this behemoth of a puzzle? No idea. But I’m having a wonderful time!

Sunbonnet Quilt Shop

On December 15, 2016January 30, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles, Thrift Store PuzzlesLeave a comment

This puzzle was so much fun to put together. I love all the different fabrics on the clothing and the quilts, I love the symmetrical quality of the quilts and the shelves in the shop – it was just a treat to assemble! I don’t know if I can explain why I enjoyed it so much, but I really had a great time!

Mom and I don’t usually buy Mega Puzzles, but this was another thrift store purchase and we just loved the image. Sometimes we put our jigsaw snobbery aside and buy a puzzle solely for the image even if it’s made by a company we don’t usually purchase. We are puzzle snobs, unashamedly so – but not so much that we wouldn’t do a puzzle just because it isn’t our usual brand. We’re always on the lookout for fun puzzles, wherever they come from!

You can see from the picture that there is basically only one piece shape – 2 prongs 2 holes. Not the most interesting pieces to say the least, and they were also on the thin side. The image quality was quite good though, and the artwork was beautifully drawn and perfect for puzzling.

Thursday 12-15-16

On December 15, 2016March 24, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

It’s coming along! A little less than 1200 pieces to go!

I got it flipped over so I can work on the top of the puzzle tomorrow. Only morning and evening though, spending the day hanging out at mom’s. She thinks it’s important that I get out of the house at least once a week, so I force her to spend time with me. 😉

Working toward getting all the leaves and tree branches finished, and I still have to find the right pieces to attach the flowers to the leaves hanging above the rock. It feels like it’s going slowly but the daily pictures are a nice reminder of where I was the day before and how much progress I’m making every day. It’s always nice when I haven’t put that many pieces in the puzzle but the picture shows that what I did assemble made a big difference.

Wednesday 12-14-16

On December 14, 2016March 24, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

It didn’t feel like I got much done today, but looking at the picture it’s impressive. Slow going, lots of green to sort through but when you fill in empty spaces it looks like you’ve accomplished quite a bit!

There are about 1500 pieces left to go, although it seems there should be more. Tomorrow will go faster or at least it will seem to. Each piece I put into the puzzle is one less piece I have to look through.

I’m going to try to fill in as much as I can on the bottom part of the puzzle tomorrow so that I can flip the board to work on the top half later. It’s hard to me to stand up for any length of time to work on the upper section, so I piece together sections on trays or flip the board so I can work more comfortably.

It won’t be long now, almost halfway there!!

Bold Spirit

On December 13, 2016January 30, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles, Thrift Store PuzzlesLeave a comment

This is one of the Vivid Collection puzzles by Buffalo. I don’t normally do 300 piece puzzles, but it was nice to start and finish a puzzle in such a short period of time!

This one was quite fun to do. It wasn’t a puzzle that you could look at a piece and see where it fit into the picture. This was just color matching for the most part. Of course that’s basically what you do with every puzzle anyway. The colors were bright and the finished image is really striking. It didn’t take much time at all with both my mother and I working on it.

Mom always finds the coolest puzzles at the thrift stores, and sometimes buys ones that we might not usually purchase – because they’re around 99 cents or so. It’s nice to work a puzzle that you aren’t sure whether you’ll enjoy it or not and then be pleasantly surprised. If I saw this puzzle in a catalog or online it wouldn’t be one that would catch my eye; or if it did, I doubt I would have purchased it. But to my surprise I enjoyed putting this one together very much!