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Update on Me…

On By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzling12 Comments

Oral surgery is no joke, and to be completely candid I am feeling pretty damned awful. I desperately want to sleep, but it’s constantly eluding me; all I’ve been able to manage are small naps. My entire face hurts and the swelling is impressive, as is the pain. Ugh. Finally this morning I am starting to feel the smallest bit better, and I’m thankful for the progress however slow it is.

I appreciate you putting up with my whining. I’m doing my best to have a positive attitude (am very much looking forward to losing some weight from feeling so awful and not really being able to chew); but it isn’t easy to be in a good mood and look at the bright side when you are really hurting. I’m grateful for being able to vent and let you know how I’m really feeling. Thanks again for “listening”.

On a happier note, I’ve been forcing myself to get up out of bed when I can and sit at the puzzle table. Sometimes I just work on the blog and upcoming posts; and I’ve started a larger collage puzzle that will hopefully serve as added incentive to keep puzzling and not wallow in bed.

So there’s a 1500 piece collage on my table, a 150 piece bathroom puzzle that just got started (double-sided apple pie image with the recipe on the back), and in bed I’m working on a stunning 140 piece Wentworth puzzle of a lion.

Never fear, the puzzling continues – I’m making up for lost time. 🧩😍🧩

Sound Off!

On By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles, Miscellaneous16 Comments

So who’s working on what? Tell us all what fabulous puzzle you’re working on at the moment; or let us know if you found a great puzzle or image you’ve recently purchased.

I’m hoping I’ll be feeling up to having the computer in bed, and will be replying to everyone’s comments if at all possible. We’ll have to wait and see. Every time there’s another surgery or procedure with anesthesia it takes longer and longer for me to recover from it – and it sucks.

But at least I’ve got my puzzle posse to talk to, right?

Happy Mother’s Day!

On By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Miscellaneous6 Comments
My gorgeous momma!

I hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday, and if you celebrate Mother’s Day I hope it’s a fabulous holiday for you. As for me, hopefully I’ll be in bed being pampered by the kids and hubby – or sitting in front of my puzzle board putting together little pieces of cardboard or wood to make a pretty picture.

If you’re a mom – thank you for all the wonderful, tedious, brave, boring, gracious, heartbreaking, compassionate, caring, forgiving and loving things you do. Even if it isn’t spoken aloud to you enough (and it never is), it is always appreciated. If you’re not a mom, Happy Mother’s Day anyway!

Enjoy your day everyone; my wish for you is lots of love and peaceful puzzling.

Of course the picture above is my beautiful, loving, fantastic, silly, sweet, kind momma. She was the first and most important member of my Puzzle Posse and she loved sitting with me and talking about everything and nothing while we worked together on puzzles. I treasure every moment we had no matter what we were doing, her momma mojo was amazing and as friends we were the bestest of besties. She is so very missed – especially today. 💗

Sorry Guys…

On By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Miscellaneous26 Comments

My apologies for not giving all my faithful readers a heads up, life kinda took me over for a bit and it was all just too much. I took a very much needed mental health break, including a trip back to my home state of Michigan to visit loved ones.

I haven’t touched a puzzle since the last time I posted, on June 2nd. But today, at the very least, I’m back on my computer and sitting at my puzzle table.

Depression and anxiety are no joke, and dealing with them on a daily basis sucks big time. Life just overwhelmed me; hubby had another surgery and I had to drive him everywhere – my anxiety about being on the road went absolutely crazy. That made the depression worse and it was just an infinite circle of one feeding the other. I’m sure that being away from my puzzles didn’t help, but I honestly spent almost all of the last 6 weeks in bed and jigsaw puzzles weren’t even on my mind.

But at least I’ve chosen my next puzzle, a collage of canines that make me smile. Plus, it’s the smallest piece count I have here at the moment (750) other than a 500 piece of 12 shaped puzzles that I’m just not in the mood for right now. I will try to get it sorted today, and may even start on it – but no promises.

So how are you all? Working on some fantastic puzzles? I’d love to hear from you!

*My sincerest apologies for disappearing again, I’m just doing the best I can.*

My Latest Subscription Box

On By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzling, Miscellaneous10 Comments

May subscription box from MicroPuzzles

I was so tickled by this month’s box that I decided to share it with you all. On the same day that my husband took me to a local kitchen supply shop to force me to spend some gift certificates, we received this fun-packed box in the mail. What a coincidence!

So along with my new mixing bowl, fancy knives and beautiful bamboo utensils from the store I also got a couple of very nice looking baking-themed puzzles, some puzzle piece cookie cutters and a refrigerator magnet with a measuring conversion table. It definitely cheered me up some. 😊

Along with some baking facts you can also see the full puzzle images on the right – don’t they look like fun? I wish I had the first one, Bake Someone Happy, in a larger piece count; it’ll be fun in this 150 piece puzzle, but it would also be great at 500 or 1000 pieces too I think.

I’m looking forward to both puzzles very much, and can’t wait to see what next month will have in store. 💙