It’s Coming Along…

On September 24, 2018 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzling4 Comments

Bookmarks in Progress — Bookmarks by White Mountain

I’m working on this thrift store White Mountain puzzle, if you love collages or books (and bookmarks) this might be a great puzzle for you. I’m certainly having a good time with it. 😍

I can’t tell you why, because I’m not sure I know myself, but I’ve decided that this puzzle is to be assembled without looking at the box. I’m doing it purely by color, pattern and shape; it’s pretty darned fun! Sometimes I do this, for unknown reasons, many times with puzzles that are usually ones you’d really need the image on the box for. I suppose the challenge is fun, seeing how long it takes me to figure out where everything goes.

It’s coming along, and looking better with every single piece. 😉

In Progress

On September 17, 2018 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw PuzzlingLeave a comment

So I’m working on another 1000 piece puzzle, but wasn’t feeling well enough to go sit in the puzzle room at the big board. But because it’s such a cool collage, I was able to start working on it in bed, on cookie sheets. This is what I’ve done so far on the trays. The cows are so fun, aren’t they?

This puzzle is a collection of some of the cows designed and decorated by artists all over the globe for CowParade, the world’s largest and most successful public art event. Over $20 million dollars have been raised by charitable organizations all over the world by the auctioning of the cows. Wow!

I absolutely love the look of this puzzle, each of the cows is so interesting and beautifully decorated. Some are funny, some are cute, and some are just cool. They have some awesome names, too! It isn’t shown in this picture, but one of them is named Jacques Moosteau – I bet you can’t wait to see him. 🐮

I’ve finally gotten myself out of bed if only for a little bit, and am working this on my big puzzle board. It’s going well; even though the edge was a bit of a cowtastrophe 😉 at first, and I’m having quite a good time!

Unpuzzle-y

On August 15, 2018 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzling8 Comments

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I’m feeling particularly unpuzzle-y today. Do you ever feel too sad or upset to puzzle? That’s exactly how my day has been so far.

I have lots of fun and interesting puzzles here that are calling my name, but my heart or brain (or both) just isn’t in it at the moment. I’m even having a problem focusing on typing up this post, let alone typing one up for one of the puzzles I’ve already completed.

It has nothing to do with the puzzles, I’m just feeling upset after a particularly distressing doctor’s visit yesterday and I can’t redirect my brain to stop obsessing about that and refocus it on something else. Hopefully at some point today I can focus on the new puzzle I’m reviewing and get my brain and my puzzling fingers in gear.

Ugh, more holiday puzzles!

On July 20, 2018 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw PuzzlingLeave a comment

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I have to confess that I’m absolutely OVER this Christmas in July thing I’m doing. Christmas puzzles have never been my favorite – in fact, I usually go out of my way to avoid them if I can!

Of course no one is forcing me to do this, and to be honest it’s not the actual assembling of the Christmas puzzles that I’m having an issue with. It sounds completely crazy (and most likely I am) but it’s the deciding what holiday puzzle to do next that’s causing me grief. I finish a puzzle and realize that I should do a Christmas puzzle next and it just makes me feel “blah”.

There are so many Christmas/winter puzzles out there, and a lot of people enjoy them. I’m just not a follow the crowd kinda gal; if everyone loves them it doesn’t mean I have to, and I don’t. The images all seem very similar to each other which I find to be boring, so it’s usually only the ones that are very different that appeal to me.

Oh well, there are only 11 more days in the month. There are 5 Christmas puzzles in the queue at the moment (4 micro puzzles and one larger size), that oughta be enough to finish out the month. 🎅

Perhaps it’s not really the Christmas in July thing that’s the problem, perhaps it’s my weird, fickle, little old lady brain. Who knows? Certainly not me!

Which to do?

On July 12, 2018 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzling4 Comments

I finished a puzzle yesterday morning, and then spent a great deal of time trying to decide which one was next. A decision didn’t seem to present itself, and then a lovely man in brown shorts dropped off a package at the front door!

After working the Cupcakes puzzle I was VERY interested in getting more of this series. Naturally, as one does, I ordered as many as I could find in one place. The nice man with the brown truck brought me 8 of them yesterday! Wooohooo!

In another chapter of today’s story, mom was coming over to bring me a prescription and timed it perfectly; 20 minutes after my delivery mom arrived carrying a Goodwill bag with recent thrift store purchases for me to check out. 😎

The dalmatians puzzle from the thrift store is intriguing to me, I’ve never done a Springbok family puzzle before and I’m interested to see how it goes. And it’s so adorable! The 12 shaped high heels are amazing looking, and I know they’ll be great fun. I want to do them both right now, but there is only one board to work a puzzle on in bed. Which to choose?