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Topic: I find it all very puzzling

And when I am finished that one I have this one waiting in the wings...

I don't have the patience for them but the hubster loves them.  In fact, he has one started on the dining room table now. Surprisingly enough the cats learned to leave them alone, after a couple of water squirts. I buy the Thomas Kinkaid ones for him when I find them on sale, although I did get him two Wysocki ones at KMart. The one he is doing now is a Thomas Kinkaid Christmas scene.  I want to frame it and hang it over the mantle next year.

Bigmama, "Hometown" is a kind of brand or branch of puzzles.  Heronim and Wysocki are two guys (brothers) who paint the most fabulous paintings. 

I've done all of these on this link:  http://www.gamesandjigsaws.com/index.php/Heronim_(Wysocki))

The puzzles are mostly farm or cityscapes or seascapes.  They are a joy to work.  I hope you can find some.  Look for the little black cat.  There's always a black cat hidden in the puzzle, if there's a black cat on the box.

I love them and have my guest bedroom set up as we speak to start on one.    I cannot do one on the DR table with Sophie around.   I posted a picture years ago of Simon sitting on top of one of my puzzles I was working on, but he wouldn't knock every piece off and Sophie would intentionally.   She's a case.  

Love the ones you're doing!    I have one I got last Christmas that I still really want to work, but it is Christmasy so I think I'll start with something else.    All of mine are 1,000 pieces and I really prefer 500 or 750 because of space.   I think I thought because the box was smaller, it was 500.   Duh.

I love doing puzzles, too.  I especially like the "Hometown" series or the Jane Wooster or those type.  I don't like ones that have too much sky or too much grass (too much of one color.)

I can relax while doing a puzzle or think.  Just think.  I can work a puzzle and solve a different problem, so that's worth the time spent.

We have an 8' table set up in our community room just for puzzling.  makes it nice because we don't have to put it up, take it down until we're ready.  I get them all from Goodwill, at 99 cents.  If all the pieces are there, we like to HodgePodge them and frame them.  Some of them are quite lovely.

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Bigmama) I have never heard of those ones Jenny. I really like the Springbok brand of puzzle as they really tend to hold together well.

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Posted by: Grandma b@s
Date posted: Fri Jan 2 14:57:29 2009
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I like them too but with small kids, I never had time or place to do them.  I have a bunch that I got from my aunt (she's addicted to puzzles and has a BARN FULL - I'd guess thousands of them) - shoot, I probably have close to 100 that I got from her. 

 

My kids used to like puzzles when they were littler, That's really one of the first things I looked up on the internet when I got it.  I was looking for wooden puzzles for my daughter when she was about 18 months old. 

 

I really like those you showed.

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Bigmama) Wow that sure is a lot of puzzles. I would be in heaven!

That is her vice. She doesn't drink, smoke, etc., she puzzles. Besides the large piles she has in the barn, she has huge piles in her spare room which is where she has a place to DO them. It's like walking through a stack of puzzles. A good deal of the hundreds I have gotten from her over the years are DUPLICATES of ones she already had that she bought by accident or someone else bought for her. Oh and what's not puzzles, are books....also walls, shelves, and boxes full... /Gma b@s

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Posted by: JoEllen
Date posted: Fri Jan 2 14:15:58 2009
Message:

I grew up with puzzles and still thoroughly enjoy them.

The problem I have is with space. I have no room for a card table and can't leave it on the counter for long. I know they have those neat surfaces that allow you to pack away the puzzle in progress but I don't have one of those.

I have a bad habit of working on the puzzle until it's finished. I can't just do a little part, leave and come back a few days later. It calls to me, it tasks me and begs to be finished. For that reason I only work a few puzzles a year.

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Bigmama) I used to be like you as well Jo Ellen. There was no space here to store them.The new couch we purchased about 4 months ago though is about 3 inches off the floor, allowing me enough space to slide the cardboard with my puzzle on it underneath.

You gotta know I'm looking under the couch to see if there is a chance. LOL! Our couch is one that reclines so the front edge basically touches the floor. But if I have the foot rest up a little, I think I can slide a board underthere for the puzzles. Thanks! /JoEllen

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Posted by: Tori
Date posted: Fri Jan 2 11:04:07 2009
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I'm a puzzler....have always loved doing them and find them relaxing. I need to find both of those you posted, they look like a lot of fun.

We have a huge puzzle of chocolate candy and I swear I can smell chocolate when working the puzzle. Really.

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Bigmama) Like you Tori, I find it very relaxing. It is so quiet here right now and I have got a fair bit of the puzzle knocked out. It is really bringing back memories of television shows as I put the faces together. My husband bought these here in Ottawa but I found the pics I posted online so I am sure you could order them.

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Posted by: cinna
Date posted: Fri Jan 2 10:31:11 2009
Message:
oh those puzzles look like great fun!! I love that they are so colorful!

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Bigmama) I sure do wish I had the best puzzling buddy in the world here helping me out :(

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Posted by: Doopy
Date posted: Fri Jan 2 10:26:34 2009
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I enjoy them, but they're so hard on my neck! I got a small one to work over my break, but haven't had a chance to start it yet. Been too busy painting.

Bigmama, I always think of you when I look at jigsaw puzzles!

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Bigmama) What are you painting, your house,?, a picture? And I think of you everytime I hear the name Thomas Kinkaide now.

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Posted by: Shirla
Date posted: Fri Jan 2 10:04:51 2009
Message:

I love working puzzles. And I have both of those that you are showing. I have them on my wall.

I don't like those puzzles that are really really hard though, I find them very frustrating. And I put them back in the box, and back in the closet.

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Shirla, how do you put them on the wall? I have a round one I'd love to hang somehow... - Doopy

Bigmama) I had really gotten into the shaped puzzles and had those all over my wall at one point. Now I just do them for the fun of it and put them back in the box. Doopy, to jump in here and answer your question...you can buy stuff called hodge podge that will bond it, however, regular white school glue works just as well. Then you frame it and put it on the wall.

well, silly me, I bought the stuff made specially for puzzles (not expensive) and shalack (sp!) the puzzle and wa la, . frame it or just hang it on the wall as is. :-) shirlala

Thanks, both of you. I'll be looking into it. - Doopy

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Posted by: Annie
Date posted: Fri Jan 2 9:35:44 2009
Message:
I give you so much credit!  I barely have the patience to do my son's 24 piece puzzles with him.  My Mom loved doing puzzles when I was a kid though.

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Bigmama) I think I got it from my Mom because she loved to do puzzles as well. Right now Jessy loves to do puzzles so I am hoping that continues when he gets older so we can do puzzles together.

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