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Thanks, Razz! Not sure yet if it will be our permanent house but it is indeed closer to family and we got to spend Christmas with my two granddaughters and their awesome parents, and it was our best Christmas in ages!Quote:
Originally Posted by razz
Congrats! Closer to family - even if social-distancing - is a good thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
I didn’t realize Tybee that you had moved to Maine already. Congrats!!
Thanks, not sure of the permanence yet, as have not sold Michigan house yet, but yes, we are here, for now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
Congratulations, Tybee. Maine is a wonderful place. We're practically neighbors now. :)
Ay-up (practicing New England speak).Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Wicked nice job!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
DH and I finished this puzzle last night. It was a lot of fun and we hadn't made a puzzle in a long time. I love these Cavallini puzzles; they are quite beautiful. Buying one is not a frugal, but it does work out to be a low cost per hour of entertainment, if I'm looking to justify the purchase.
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So pretty. We are getting ready to start a new puzzle but can't quite figure out the best place to put it. New house, new puzzle issues!
That's so nice, rosarugosa. How many pieces is it?
That is a lovely puzzle. I just sent a Frank Lloyd Wright inspired one to a friend: https://moonshotgamestore.com/produc...yImportAdGroup
That looks like a very challenging one, Jane!!!
Oh man, Jane, no way! We are down to the 500 piece, something identifiable on every piece ones. Between my eyesight and my arthritis, I need clear pictures and big pieces.
We seem to be only able to work on the "nostalgia for seniors collection" these days.
Haha! My friend and her husband are younger and have good eyes. I considered, for about five seconds, an all-white one. :~)
Aaahh!!!!
Late late into the topic.
I used to love puzzles when I was 20, I would run in from work and find a few pieces and run about life after that. I would glue them and hang up. Fast forward to two weeks ago I got a lovely puzzle. Took two days to put out the pieces between toddler chasing. Third day I attempted several pieces. Fifth day back in box it went. I felt I had given up on life by puzzling! It just felt like work and I could not stop. I felt like I had so much more to do. Guess fun was gone for me. I have to keep moving and have a hard time sitting:treadmill:
Tybee: I ordered a puzzle mat from Amazon that hasn't arrived yet. We did this one on the cellar workbench because we only have one table upstairs in our little house, and that is our only place to eat, etc. I can report back as to whether the mat is good for storage of work in progress.
Happy: It was 1000 pieces.
rosarugosa - I have one of those felt puzzle mats. I've never done a puzzle on top of it, but use it to cover my puzzle when I'm not working on it. Helps keep the cats from stealing pieces. LOL.
Right, that is our problem, as we have done them on the dining room table, so please report back! Happy, covering the puzzle sounds like a good option too.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
Since I stayed in-house all day yesterday, I did this one this one. 500 pieces and only took a couple hours.
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Whoa, happystuff, that is amazing--I can't believe you did that in a couple of hours. OMG I would have given up, as there is no way I could have put that together, even with several days. Yikes.Quote:
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I need little reference points in the pictures!
Happy, that one looks challenging!
Actually, the colors were easy to distinguish between as was the snow/ground along the bottom.
DH and I made a really fun puzzle last week. It was a Liberty puzzle that a friend had loaned to us. I was not familiar with the brand, but it was a very intricate and challenging puzzle, with "picture shapes" within the puzzle in addition to the actual puzzle picture. Hard to describe and I don't think I'm doing a very good job, lol. Anyway, they are made of wood and crazy expensive, but we really enjoyed it. Here's a link to give a better idea: https://www.libertypuzzles.com/wooden-jigsaw-puzzles
RR, there is another brand of wooden puzzles that are similar to this... I think someone may have posted them earlier. These are beautiful! Did you find that the 'picture shapes' helped or hindered the putting together?
Rosa, these are really beautiful. I might have to get my granddaughters one for Christmas (too expensive for every day) because I think they would love the shapes within the puzzle angle, and they are mad for jigsaw puzzles already.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
We had to approach it in an entirely different way from any puzzle we've ever made. This was the picture, so it wasn't easy to differentiate the different parts of the picture. There was also a trickiness to the way they cut the edge pieces, so my usual strategy of building the frame first didn't work. We found that we had to build out the shape pictures within the puzzle, then figure out how to link them together, and then it flowed more easily from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
While we were working on it, I was pretty obsessed, and spent some beautiful sunny springtime hours at the workbench in the cellar working on the puzzle. I knew I should want to be outside, but all I really wanted to do was work on the puzzle until it was completed!
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/70065/afterglow
Yes, I never knew these Cadillac puzzles existed, and I was probably better off not knowing, but now I do. . . You can curse me for afflicting you with this knowledge if you wish! As a funny aside, this friend says she likes to share puzzles, and for this particular one, people had written their names, date of completion and their location on the bottom of the box. We were the fourth team to complete the puzzle, and it had gone from VA to CA to MA. That was kind of fun too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Oh, that painting is glorious--and I love the idea of shapes within the puzzle!
Rosa, I love that you are sending the puzzle around and different people are signing it. We always share our puzzles, and I tried to get a puzzle sharing thing going with DH family, but so far, we are the only ones sending puzzles, so I guess my round robin idea has not caught on.
I'm stuck on an easy National Park banner puzzle--I really like it, but I just don't feel like sitting there, and my husband is usually keeps us on track and he is out of town. I need to finish it or put it away.
That is beautiful! Thanks for sharing and thanks for the extra info. Interesting how you said you had to put it together.
I've done a few million puzzles since I was here last. haha I'm definitely a puzzle addict. Since my knees hurt so bad, it's nice to have this to do with no pain. I've done a couple wooden puzzles. I found the trick was to lower the pieces down into their proper space. Sometimes a tweezer works well for that. I used to glue all my finished puzzles, but that became too many. So now if I'm on the fence about gluing them, I'll keep them put together, but put them aside and look at them later, when they might not mean as much to me, and then put the pieces back in the box, or give them away. I'm a bit neurotic about keeping them all though.
The last one I did was a little different from my usual nature/wildlife ones I usually do, but this one was so sweet, I liked it. I hope you can enlarge it to see the details.
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That IS sweet, Cathy.
I always think of a (now passed away) friend of mine who was a puzzle enthusiast. She glued many of hers and had them placed around her grand house (which had a turret-reading nook!). I recall she used them for placemats and had them on her fireplace hearth like a rug would be. I miss her. She was so quirky. She also collected coat hooks. They were in unexpected places on the walls all over her house.
I also started gluing some together, but it just became too much. Now I'll take a picture of them and of the box, take them apart and pass them along to someone else.
That is so cute, Cathy!
Here's another one that drove me NUTS!! But I finally finished it. It reminded me of some of what I can see out my window on some Full Moon nights.
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Okay, I promise this is the last one for today. :) It's called "A Smokey Mountain Morning". Sorry....don't know why it's posting twice....
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Those are really nice, Cathy. I especially like the trees.
I think you must be a very patient person to do puzzles. I sat down recently with a small puzzle (300 pieces) because a friend of mine loves them. I lasted about a half hour before all the pieces went back in the box.
Beautiful! The trees look like a challenging one.