Tag: Jigsaw Puzzling

Living In Bird World In Progress…

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Living In Bird World by Lisa Houck – Liberty Puzzles – 498 pieces

I’m having a bad day today, and this beautiful Liberty Puzzle has been helping me keep my mind off of things. That’s number 138 on the list of reasons why puzzling is good for your mental health. When you work on a puzzle it isn’t possible to multi-task, every part of your brain must be engaged with finding out what shape, cut, and color you’re looking for. The best puzzles can do that with ease, they keep you engrossed in what you’re doing, there’s no time to dwell on problems you may have or situations you can’t change, etc. It’s a mindful, peaceful meditation, and that’s just what I needed today.

I love to puzzle and being a dissectologist has been such a blessing in my life.🧩❤

The symmetrical section with many repeating pieces is where I started, that’s the top section shown; when that began to become more difficult and I needed something a bit easier I went with the darker section of dots in the bottom corner. It took a bit to reorient my brain to how all these pieces worked together, but from then on it’s been pretty smooth sailing. When that was finished I started on the smaller dots in the section above it and that’s where I am now. I’ve pulled out all the pieces (I hope) with the dots on the light background and am attempting to put everything into it’s place and hopefully connect these two sections together.

When I work a premium wooden puzzle like this one I normally put the box away where I cannot easily catch a glimpse of the image on the box. It makes the assembly last a little longer for me and I enjoy figuring out where each piece and whimsy fits into the overall picture. And when I’m finished it gives me a greater sense of accomplishment.

God Bless this puzzle for being here for me today, to keep my mind otherwise occupied when things that I can’t do anything about are happening and I don’t want to wallow (which I would definitely be doing right now). Puzzles have always been a cozy, warm hug for me when I’ve needed it, and I need many hugs today. 🤗🤗

Hummingbird’s Treasure In Progress…

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Hummingbird’s Treasure – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

I haven’t gotten as far I would have liked on this one yet, usually these puzzles are finished in one sitting. They’re what I call “one coffee puzzles” – they can usually be completed in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee. Having a bad time lately with being able to sit in a chair for any length of time though, so this one will hopefully be completed later on today.

There’s something about working on these little puzzles with little pieces; I can’t really explain why they make me so happy, but then again I don’t really need to understand it. I can just enjoy them, right? Of course right!

This image is beautiful, and obviously I love that the hummingbird’s treasure is a puzzle piece. This isn’t an easy one, and working with the somewhat shiny pieces under artificial lighting is proving difficult at times. I had to turn off the light over the puzzle board and just work with the room lighting. The blue color around the border is a bit darker than the image shows, but it’s gonna be stunning when it’s done and difficult or not I’m still enjoying it. 😊

Rebels In Progress…

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Rebels – Re-marks – 1000 pieces

I’m sure it won’t be a surprise for you to hear that this puzzle is making for a completely entertaining assembly. If you ask me it needs to be a 2000 piece puzzle because it seems to be going together much too quickly and the fun is going to be over way too soon. 😥

There are most likely many things to tell you about the assembly so far, but I need to get back to my puzzle; it’s calling to me…

It also occurs to me that there aren’t nearly enough collage puzzles here, perhaps I need to do some shopping!

Get Your Stitch Together In Progress…

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Get Your Stitch Together – What The Puzzles – 1000 pieces

This puzzle has only just gotten started, but I’m already having the loveliest time with it! First of all, my darling daughter came over to spend time with me yesterday on Mother’s Day, and she helped me put the edges together. We haven’t worked on a puzzle together in what seems like forever and it made my heart happy. Secondly, my sweet puzzle pal Penny sent me this puzzle (and one other) just because she’s an awesome friend. And last but not least, this is a new-to-me brand, and it seems to be quite good quality – which is always a great thing to discover!

I’ll have to be careful when I write up the post for the completed puzzle though, it is full of cuss words, rude language, and in general is extremely R-rated. As the wife of a retired Marine there isn’t a swear word I haven’t heard or seen before, and not much can shock me. To have such bad language and sometimes awful things cross-stitched into little samplers, however, I found absolutely hilarious. I laughed so hard when I saw the package, you have no idea! 🤣 (Of course that’s the reason for the big question mark in the “what’s on my board” section of the homepage too – I don’t wanna put a picture of the puzzle where I can’t give fair warning first to allow anyone to opt out of it if they’d prefer.)

The pieces are on the thinner side, but are extremely sturdy – and the fit is exceptional. I’m very much looking forward to working on this puzzle some more!

Dark Academia In Progress…

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Dark Academia – Re-marks – 1000 pieces

I’ve started another collage, this is another book covers collage from Re-marks and I can already tell that it is going to be extremely entertaining to assemble!

Usually there are many books from these types of collages that I have read, this time there’s only one – it shocked me. You may be surprised to find that I consider my self relatively intelligent and well read but in this collage the only book shown that I’ve read is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Does that make a uncultured swine? Perhaps. I don’t really care; I’m past the age of giving a crap what other people think of me and doing things because someone else thinks I should. A few of the books look interesting, but at the moment I’m not going out of my way to stock up on any of them. For me the draw here was the image of the book covers themselves, not to get a suggested reading list. It just looks like a fun puzzle and that’s it.

So far it’s been great. The initial sorting didn’t seem to take forever, I pulled the pieces for a dozen or so books that were easy to find, and got all the edges on the first try. Excellent progress so far. 😎