Monday 01-16-17

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Got the twinkly sides done. Working only on the sides made it so that I was able to take a small part of the puzzle in my bed on a tray and work on it that way instead of having to sit in a chair or stand at the puzzle table. Once I was out of room on the tray I could bring it in the puzzle room, attach most of it, and then continue working. It’s nice when I’m not feeling well enough to sit or stand, but quite the challenge when 3 dogs are vying for attention. There was some initial interest in messing with the pieces, but they were content to just lay with me after a while. Good pups!

Not sure how much I’ll be able to do tomorrow. I have an appointment in the afternoon, and it’s an hour and a half away. Ugh. Driving or riding in a car isn’t fun for me either. I’ll try to work on it in the morning before we leave, but I’m not sure how I’ll feel after 3 hours in the car. If only the puzzle were portable! 🙂

Anyway, even with the appointment I’m hoping I’ll be able to mostly finish with the twinklies tomorrow. It looks so much better when it has a frame around it, just my opinion of course. Then I guess I’ll work on Mickey. I know I don’t have all the pieces pulled though; the white of his gloves and the blue of his hat didn’t really stand out much from the other white and blue in the puzzle (at least not the first time though).  I know I have some, but definitely not all. It’ll be interesting to see how much I’ll be able to assemble!

 

Sunday 01-15-17

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It doesn’t look like much, but that is almost 700 pieces done! It really doesn’t look that impressive at all, does it? Oh well.

I wasn’t able to work on the puzzle much today, I’m puppy-sitting my daughter’s two dogs and they were quite adamant about me spending time with them instead of the puzzle. They were looking for snuggles and play time and lovin’, not me having quiet time with my hobby. That’s alright though, I’m enjoying my grandpuppies staying with us.

More work on the twinklies tomorrow, if I’m allowed. 😉

Saturday 01-14-17

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Fantasia has begun! The filmstrip is done and I had a great time doing it. Tomorrow I’ll work on the top edge and the dark blue and if I’m feeling well enough I might even start on the twinklies.

I was talking to my mom yesterday and I think either this section is going to take me a while or I’m going to get it done really fast because I just want to get it over with. I’m not sure which one it’s going to be yet, but I guess we’ll see soon enough. I could tell while sorting the pieces that this one was gonna be a little tougher than any of the other ones so far. The number of containers needed for sorting was much smaller than any of the previous sections, and there is much less color.

But just think how proud I’ll be once I finish this section! It won’t be the hardest puzzle I’ve ever done, but it’ll be up there in the top 5!

 

Celebration of Women – Tea Time

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Celebration of Women – Tea Time by Patricia Govezensky – Sure-Lox – 500 pieces

My first Sure-Lox puzzle…..eh. Didn’t hate it, but didn’t love it either. The pieces were thin, not the thinnest I’ve worked with but thin. My main problem with this puzzle was that every piece was the same shape. There were slight variations, but every piece had two prongs and two holes. Boring. Momma needs more excitement in her life! More piece shapes please! 😉

On the plus side, the pieces fit together very well, well enough that you can lift the puzzle by one of the corners and it basically stayed together. I like when a puzzle fits together well, but not so tightly that you have to work on your biceps to put the pieces together. (I mean, I know I’m a woman in her 40’s and I have bingo wings, but I’m doing the best I can! Don’t make me work out doing a jigsaw puzzle!) And you can see that the piece shapes are not glaringly obvious in the finished puzzle, especially the darker sections. The image quality was quite good as well. It took me a while to get used to the artwork in this one, but I ended up loving the artwork and I think the finished puzzle is interesting and beautiful.

I can’t say whether or not I would buy another puzzle from this company. On the one hand the pieces are thin and there is only one piece shape, on the other hand the fit is excellent and the image quality is very good. I guess it would come down to how I felt about the image itself, maybe……maybe not.

Donuts and Pastries

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Donuts and Pastries – White Mountain Puzzles – 1000 pieces

Since I showed the Coffee Cafe on Monday, I figured we’d add some donuts and pastries to go with!

Obviously this is not a picture of the completed puzzle that I did. I do have a picture of that on my completed puzzles 2016 page (April – June) but I must have been having an inner ear problem or I desperately need new glasses because the picture is extremely cockeyed and I don’t have the entire puzzle in the picture. Although if you’re interested you can see a bit of my bedspread at the bottom. 🙂 So I decided it would just be better to show the WHOLE puzzle in a picture. Ta-da!

This was another extremely fun collage from White Mountain. It’s so much fun for me to have a bunch of smaller images to put together, it makes it seem like even a 1000 piece puzzle is no big deal and it goes so quickly! The puzzle was the usual good White Mountain quality, and the image quality was so good it made me hungry. The donuts were interestingly decorated, the backgrounds were fun and all together it was just a great puzzle to assemble.

When I’ve been working on a difficult or challenging puzzle it’s so nice to have a collage puzzle as a palette cleanser. I can pull out a few pieces and assemble them, which leads to the next space and so on.  Not to say one is more fun than the other, the challenging ones are fun for me as well!

If you’re a fan of collages, donuts or puzzles, I highly recommend this puzzle. Yum!