Any other puzzlers out there?

I'm a sucker for quilts, so I like that one best. You've been busy.

My boyfriend sometimes helps me with my puzzles. It makes me so happy. Ex-husband refused to even consider it. I can't wait until I move and I can make my young nieces and nephew do puzzles with me!

I try to do puzzles once in a while, but for some reason I am just so, so bad at it.

I find that I have to really be interested in the subject matter of a puzzle. It also helps to have a bit of OCD. haha
The whole thing that got me going was finding a couple of my favorite wildlife artist's paintings available as puzzles. They are a lot cheaper than the limited reproductions!

My neighbors leave their old puzzles in our craft room. I found the "world's most difficult puzzle" there and gave it to my cousin to try. The photo is just lots of dalmations, but the puzzle is two sided, with the same picture rotated 90 degrees on the other side. He's up for the challenge.

I think I would get too discouraged if it was too difficult.

Here are the last 4 puzzles I've done. I get pretty obsessed with these things! I love nature ones. I have to stop every so often between puzzles because sitting there makes my legs hurt so bad for some reason.....which is a bummer.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...e%20framed.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...20puzzle-1.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...GH%20owl_1.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...%20cropped.jpg

Very nice, CathyA! They are beautiful!

beautiful! what do you do with the ones you don't frame?

does anyone have one of those puzzle mats that you can roll the whole thing up while you are working on it to get it out of the way? does it work?

where's the best place to get puzzles inexpensively?

Thanks happystuff and freshstart. Well, I guess you could say I have a problem. haha I've been gluing quite a few of them and framing them. I buy the cheapest frames from Michaels. But I haven't framed a number of them. The glare off the plexiglass sort of ruins the image, but I just figured out how to remove the plexiglass (it was glued in) and I'll frame things with no plexiglass on them. The ones I haven't framed and haven't glued, are stored in cardboard science fair tri-fold things and the glued ones are just hanging around. haha There surely will come a point when I realize I have no space for these! Our house is fairly open and I don't have many walls. The ones I wasn't crazy about I took apart and will probably give them away. I had only planned on framing the Robert Bateman images, but after I spent so much time on others, it's hard to just take it all apart. I don't know why I enjoy it so much. I guess I like looking for and finding things! :)
As far as the Bateman images, these in print are hundreds or thousands of dollars........so I feel like I'm getting a real bargain at $12-15!