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darleneapd · Cuff 'Em N' Stuff 'Em

Jigsaw Puzzles

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

I have fond memories, too. My dad would set up our extra table, which was normally reserved for holidays, and it would stay in the living room for a few days with the puzzle spread out. Family members would sit and work on it whenever they felt like it. I usually would take on the "sky" pieces of the scenery ones. I loved having those puzzles out.

Anyone see the episode of The Simpsons where they did that? It was great. Reminded me so much of my family.

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

I haven't been actively doing them but I think we have 3 to put together. One year I made the mistake of telling my Mom that I wanted one for Christmas. She got her blind daughter a Mosaic wolf puzzle. I just wanted a regular one. I have to have a magnifying glass to try and put this thing together. It kinda turned me off. I wonder if I will try again after the floors dry up? I wonder how many pieces have been lost during the moves? hmm

darleneapd · Cuff 'Em N' Stuff 'Em

Oh My Mosiac Wolf...sounds very hard!! But I bet it's beautiful!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

no way! don't have that kind of patience. smile

I like that wavy gravy thing under your signature line, Darling. I think I will just watch that now when I listen to the music. smile

darleneapd · Cuff 'Em N' Stuff 'Em

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:
no way! don't have that kind of patience.
I like that wavy gravy thing under your signature line, Darling. I think I will just watch that now when I listen to the music.

Smoke a fatty too while your at it JD!!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

darleneapd wrote:

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:
no way! don't have that kind of patience.
I like that wavy gravy thing under your signature line, Darling. I think I will just watch that now when I listen to the music.

Smoke a fatty too while your at it JD!!

nah. that just makes me want to play bongos. And I don't have no bongos no more

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

darleneapd wrote:

Oh My Mosiac Wolf...sounds very hard!! But I bet it's beautiful!

here it is:

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

*We used to do puzzles all the time. Then we'd glue them together and hang them up. We've got a really hard shaped dragon puzzle that we tried working on for a while and didn't get anywhere with it. Maybe we need to spread that out on the coffee table and work on it again. We also have the challenge of the cats trying to steal the pieces.

*"We" being Brian and I. As a kid, I didn't do very many puzzles.

-- Edited by MzHartz at 15:29, 2008-06-17

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

I did them when I was a kid. I have done them as an adult. I actually bought two puzzles during the winter months but never put them together.

Shame on me. But I don't really have a place to put them. I need a table. I have done a 3D puzzle or two in my time as well.

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

I just don't have the patience, it's kind of like video games, I get bored with them easily and have to get up.

darleneapd · Cuff 'Em N' Stuff 'Em

Wow that Mosiac Wolf looks really difficult!!

The one I am doing now is spread out on my kitchen island, and I am already angry because I have all the pieces out and one of the ones that make the frame is already missing.

-- Edited by darleneapd at 20:33, 2008-06-17

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

My grandmother has alzheimers, and it's been getting worse.

One of the things the doctors recommended was that she start doing various puzzles and such. For awhile we had her really into doing crosswords, but she eventually bored of that.

Now for the last year we've been getting her a ton of jigsaw puzzles and she absolutely loves it.

When she finsihed them my mom puts some kind of coating on them that makes them permanent, and each of her nine kids and 30 some grandkids are each going to get one.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

I love to put puzzles together, and have bought many of them over the years. I took a couple of new ones up to the cabin back in May so I can work on them over the summer while I'm up there. smile

darleneapd · Cuff 'Em N' Stuff 'Em

Jeremy Riggs wrote:
My grandmother has alzheimers, and it's been getting worse.

One of the things the doctors recommended was that she start doing various puzzles and such. For awhile we had her really into doing crosswords, but she eventually bored of that.

Now for the last year we've been getting her a ton of jigsaw puzzles and she absolutely loves it.

When she finsihed them my mom puts some kind of coating on them that makes them permanent, and each of her nine kids and 30 some grandkids are each going to get one.

What a good idea, I love it!!

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

my most fond memory of a jigsaw puzzle was when i purchased one for my younger brother for his birthday -- maybe 9 or 10. anyway, it was called verticalville and he put it together and glued it to a cardboard. it hung on the wall of his bedroom until he moved out and joined the airforce.

darleneapd · Cuff 'Em N' Stuff 'Em

Holy crap..where do you begin on that one????

darleneapd · Cuff 'Em N' Stuff 'Em

This is the puzzle I am doing at the moment, I have the top right hand side all done, down to the head of the man, and some of the tablecloth.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

That is neat.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

This is the puzzle we keep working on and not finishing:

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

That is cool too. I have to start looking for better puzzles.

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

MzHartz wrote:

This is the puzzle we keep working on and not finishing:

i've been tempted by that one. I don't think we ever bought it though. I know we have an eagle one where you are supposed to find the other hidden eagles in the picture.

darleneapd · Cuff 'Em N' Stuff 'Em

lots of white on the one w/ the dragon... must be hard. I don't like a puzzle where the puzzle is mostly one color.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

No white, Darlene. The puzzle is shaped as the dragon.

darleneapd · Cuff 'Em N' Stuff 'Em

Oh boy... I need a frame.... no way I could do that one either, no white or not?? Boy you guys are making my puzzle look like a toddler can do it, with the ones you do??