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I’m so excited!!! Hubby says my birthday present from Liberty Puzzles will be arriving today! My puzzle dealer in the brown truck will be bringing me joy and happiness in a box. I can hardly wait!
What will it be? How many pieces? Why isn’t it here already?
It’s gonna be a good day today – I can feel it! Although, I think I may have gone over the limit for exclamation point usage in one post. Whatever! I’m so excited! New Liberty wooden puzzle today! 🤩
Just a few little tidbits that I thought I’d pass along…
One of My Jigsaw Journal’s readers and fellow puzzle blogger, Puzzle Momma, has recently gotten back to her GIANT of a puzzle, Life – The Great Challenge. This big boy is 24,000 pieces and she’s down to about her last 1000 pieces or so. She’s back working on it after about a year’s hiatus, and I for one am cheering her on. Go Penny! I can’t wait to see pictures of the entire puzzle, although I bet it’s 10 times more beautiful in person than in any pictures. Check out her blog Puzzle Momma to watch for updates. (When I was working on my big puzzle, knowing people were “watching” on the blog helped me to work on it every day – even if only a few pieces. So we’ll be watching! 😇)
Outset Media, which, among many other things designs and manufactures Cobble Hill puzzles, has mentioned My Jigsaw Journal in their latest news update on their website! In a post about puzzle bloggers they enjoy, my humble little blog was one of three mentioned! 😱 Check out their post for their thoughts on some awesome jigsaw puzzle blogs. (Yeah, I said my blog was awesome – because I couldn’t think of a good way to compliment the other two amazing bloggers without complimenting myself!)
Lastly, and the one I’m most excited about, I pulled up my wishlist at Liberty Puzzles on my husband’s computer last night so he could choose a birthday present for me. If you knew me, you’d know that it’s completely out of character – I don’t really care for presents. I know that’s a ridiculously odd thing to say, but I am a ridiculously odd person! I’m not a fan of being the center of attention, and presents make me uncomfortable. Yup, I said that. Welcome to the weird world of me.
That said, I have a big birthday coming up, and for once I’ve decided to help him out. Since he was going to get me a present this year even though I always ask him not to, I thought it best to make sure it was something that I’d really like. He asked for suggestions, so I figured now was the time to go big or go home – wooden puzzles! You only turn half a century old once, right? 😎
So I’m excited to see what fantastic new Liberty Puzzle I’m getting (knowing hubby, it’ll be whichever puzzle on my wishlist was the most expensive). I’ll try not to think about that, and just be overjoyed that I have an awesome husband who always tries to make me happy and loves me madly even after 30 years of marriage. 💖
I spent some time yesterday looking at lots of puzzles at Puzzle Warehouse. I came across a couple of new images that made me say a word I can’t really spell – it’s a cross between “uhh”, “ew”, “yikes”, and “ouch”.
Cat Faces and Owl Faces are two new puzzles from D-Toys, a Romanian manufacturer. I haven’t tried this brand before; I was actually looking for one of their puzzles to try out. There are plenty of interesting images from this brand that look like they’d be great to assemble; but these two jumped right out at me, and not in a good way.
These images (to me) don’t look like fun to assemble, or even to look at. I suppose there are plenty of people who will like these images, but to be honest they kinda scare me a bit – just in time for Halloween, right? All those eyes staring out from those images are just creepy!
What do you think of these cat and owl faces? Scary? Cute? Would either of them be puzzles you’d be interesting in assembling?
I don’t normally post many in progress pictures, but having not done a 1500 piece puzzle in about 17 months, and having just started working on this assembly today – it’s looking awesome already!
These are all the doors I pulled on my initial sort, and they’re looking great! Mom has an appointment this afternoon and then she’s off to work on her black belt ninja thrift store skills. Before she left I had her come over and pick up a few puzzles that I was ready to donate to (or back to) Goodwill, so she sat for a bit and helped me work on a few doors. Isn’t it looking fabulous?
I overdid it a little bit this morning so I’m resting in bed at the moment. Then it’ll be off to sort a few more doors and maybe even put one or two more together. Collages rock!
If you read this blog regularly you’ll know that I’ve been having a hard time lately doing 1000 piece puzzles – my anxiety gets the better of me and it just feels like too much. You’ll be shocked to hear, then, that I’m starting this 1500 piece puzzle today!
I told mom a couple of days ago that I wanted to do a collage puzzle next, but that I didn’t have one here at the house. I thought that was true, but after hubby cleaned up the golf/puzzle room yesterday we found that not only was there a collage here, it was 1500 pieces, and stunningly beautiful. Oh my! It completely slipped my old, addled brain that I purchased this puzzle over a year ago. 😮
Perhaps because it’s a collage and the image isn’t one giant scene it seems a little more doable to me – the challenge doesn’t seem as daunting because it can be broken down into smaller sections. I went back and checked the blog, and it looks like the last time I assembled a 1500 piece puzzle was in May of 2017 (a golf collage for hubby). And the last time anything larger was put together was in almost exactly a year ago – a 2000 piece collage of purses in October, 2017. Wow! Do you sense a theme here? I enjoy collages.
It may take all day today to sort it, sitting for more than 5 or 10 minutes becomes extremely painful, so it’ll have to be done bit by bit. Hopefully though, I should be able to start actually assembling it tomorrow. Wish me luck! 🍀
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