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Anyone into doing jigsaw puzzles? My wife and I started doing jigsaw puzzles last year during the Winter. They are very addicting.
Your comments and questions are always welcome.
When we moved into our Retirement Community, they have a room in the community center with a small library and a bunch of shelves full of jigsaw puzzles. When you finish one, you put your initials and the date on the back of the box, bring it back and take another one (or two or three). They even have a crystal dish with any single pieces you find you don't need or look through them for ones you need.
I'm hooked on them. There is always one on a table in the living room that every time I go by it I sit down and work on it. It's seriously cutting into my model building time. Luckily it's not in line with the stairs to the loft or I'd never get up there any more.
Jim
Stay Safe.
Main WIP:
On the Bench: Artesania Latina (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II
I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.
As a kid yes,as of now,I already have enough to do for hobbies and recreation,although I was tempted by some military puzzles.
I have often thought about doing a jigsaw puzzle. I loved them as a kid. We have a large dining room table that never gets used as we eat at the kitchen island. I certainly have the space. Here's the problem-the cat. I would want to keep all the pieces out. It would be a PITA to box all the loose pieces after every session. I'm pretty sure he would destroy even the assembled pieces. I wanted a dog, my wife wanted a cat. That's a hill I wasn't willing to die on*
*I tried introducing a dog into the family over the years. The cat wasn't having it.
Well!
I do like them, especially those related to Steam trains and Ships. The Fellow that did all that great art that was put to Puzzles some years Back(Thomas Kincaid) Totally breathtaking! I do them then give them away framed to friends and anyone that would like them!
I do them when it's too cold to work in the garage. I can't work Scratch and modified builds in the house because of the mess and I don't want my Cat thinking that all the curliques and sanding dust are playthings! She will plop on the puzzle when I am working on it. So far( Eight Years) she hasn't destroyed one or, chosen a piece to claim as hers!
We buy our 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzles from White Mountain Puzzles. They have great quality puzzles. We like their puzzles because the pieces are extra large.
Each puzzle contains a photo of the finished puzzle to use as a handy guide.
The problem with these puzzels is that it takes a lot of room to organize the pieces. This is our dining room table.
My wife builds a lot of them on a card table, and if it is a picture or subject that I like, I will join her. Recently we built a great puzzle of a laker locking through the Soo locks. I thought I would frame it, and glued it to a piece of heavy cardboard. I ruined it by using white glue instead of contact cement (lesson learned). However, I believe I can copy the image from the cover art, print and frame it.
Love doing puzzles ever since I was a kid. I've done a couple 'photo' puzzles as gifts for my wife. You can post a photo to shutterfly and they will make a puzzle out of it. Really fun gifts.
Thanks,
John
Well, we finished the puzzle today. This was a difficult puzzle because of the similar colors in the floor and in the curtains behind the band. Also note that there are three locations of similar colored ballons. The finished size of the puzzle is 30"x24".
Yes, but cats like to mess with them. I have taken to putting en empty box nearby so they sit in it for a bit.
Ok one more piece and I'm going to bed....Ok this time I mean it....
A number Army Viet Nam scans from hundreds yet to be done:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/southwestdreams/albums/72157621855914355
Have had the great fortune to be on every side of the howitzers.
You hit that nail right on the head Glen! That and at dinner time "One more piece and I'll be right there".
We are currently working in this puzzle. The illustrator that drew the picture for this puzzle is really talanted.
I rtemember doing a few decades ago. Now I have no interest in them at all, Any more than board games, or computer games at that.
I used to play Battletech and still have the figures and things in teh garage and then went on to do Mechwarrior on the computer and was on of the best scouts playing. These were several years ago.
These 1,000 piece puzzles continue to get more and more difficult. The bottom puzzle almost went onto the "Shelf of Doom". The red trees made the puzzle difficult.
My friend's wife used to host a jigsaw party on New Year's Eve. We'd start it when we arrived at 6:00 pm or so, then would work on it till midnight. I don't think we ever finished, but we usually returned in a week or two to complete the job.
One year a friend brought a puzzle with an annoying designed-in secret: There was one piece missing and one piece that did not fit anywhere!
“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”
I've gotten a couple of puzzles lately with an extra piece that is a duplicate of a piece in the puzzle. In one of the boxes, there was a note saying "Big surprise at the end of the puzzle". I think someone at the puzzle factory is having a little bit of fun with us.
Real G One year a friend brought a puzzle with an annoying designed-in secret: There was one piece missing and one piece that did not fit anywhere!
Well, another year the same friend who brought the puzzle brought a game where losers get a mild electric shock! The kids went nuts, and demanded the dial be cranked all the way to the max! I was shocked (see what I did there?) that a friend's youngest daughter was the one who immediately reached out and cranked the dial, and said "OK let's play!"
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