I hope today’s the day I finally get back to puzzling. It’s been more than 10 days now, it’s time to get a move on!
Category: Jigsaw Puzzling
Terrible Week
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.
Finding Treasures
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. 😉
Wasgij In Progress
I’m currently working on a Wasgij puzzle, it’s going a little slowly but I’m still having a good time. You won’t get to see the finished image here on my blog (I don’t like spoilers), but you can see Momma Cabbage and her babies running around – aren’t they cute? I’m not sure yet if they’re chasing the mouse or if he’s leading the way, but I will get it figured out eventually.
I have a stack of about 20 Wasgij puzzles in my closet over four feet high, and I need to work on whittling it down (some of them have 2 puzzles in the box, one of the actual box image and the other is the Wasgij that has to be figured out). Because they’re in my closet I sometimes forget about them, but they were calling to me yesterday and I got this one going.
As usual I’m loving it, it’s so satisfying when I figure out where a section belongs and fit it into place. Every now and then I challenge myself by putting away the box and assembling a puzzle without the aid of an image, with a Wasgij I don’t need to add the extra challenge – it’s built right in.
For this image you have to puzzle what the lady with the polka dot bow is seeing. All I know for sure is what the gentleman in the middle is wearing, so you’d think I would have started with his shirt – for some reason I haven’t even pulled those pieces yet. It may be the next section to be assembled though, we’ll have to wait and see. 🙂
Starting a New Puzzle…
I’m starting a new puzzle today, a 550 piece collage called Massive Munchies. Sounds good, doesn’t it? For me these puzzles don’t usually make me hungry, so there isn’t much danger of me gaining weight from it – other than from spending too much time sitting at the puzzle table. 😉
What are you working on?
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