One last time! For the 8th time! :o)

Well Lisa decided we needed to do just 'one' more puzzle! We did this one last night in '4' hours! I am so impressed at the 'speed and tenacity' Lisa has in whipping right through these! I am alas the tortoise who took '1' hour to put the barn together! This one was fun! I am taking a sabbatical though for a few weeks before attempting to put the other puzzle she has. She's leaving it with me. It's mostly buildings that look alike! Yikes! I will tackle that in a few weeks. It's been a fun adventure putting 8 puzzles together this past month! Thank you Lisa! I know my mom would be thrilled as she was an avid puzzler!

A Barn Raising!

Ahhh...an Amish Barn Raising! Two-thirds of this puzzle was the barn and of course Lisa did it. She's great at buildings! I took on '2' buildings, upper left corner and it took 10-15 minutes, good grief! Lisa did the far right one in two minutes! She studies the box and holds it faithfully close by and zip the pieces fly in! I look at the box now and then, hence, 10-15 minutes later the barn and house are raised! Ha! Ha! I like to stick to paths, roads, vehicles and this time-quilts! The greenery is always a challenge! I do follow the box when I do those. We've copied the picture on the box so it makes it easier for both of us to have either a picture or the box to refer to. It was so pretty when we finished the puzzle!

Good 'Old Faithful!'

Yes, it's another puzzle! Yes, we are going to do '1' more after this one. Lisa and I have been doing the 'Home Town Collection' puzzles of late. This one, Old Faithful, puzzle #6 was fun up until the greenery! Oh my! Once again Lisa did the buildings and this time I volunteered to do the roofing on all the buildings. There was a lot of gray but it went together fairly well. We still think the Fifties Classic Cars all stacked on top of each other was the most difficult and then the first one that was made of all wood with the grape vineyard was hard too. The next one we are doing is 'Amish Barn Building'. It has a lot of repeat colors, etc. but we're up for the challenge! We're going to look at some Good Will stores to see what puzzles they might have. We do lead such exciting lives! Oh by the way, Lisa took this picture with her camera and she did such an excellent job! Much better than all my past pictures of our works of art!

Bits 'n Pieces...Oh, Sew Nice!

Yes, another creation, #5! Shall I just say that Lisa and I are slightly crazy, puzzle crazy! My mother loved to put jigsaw puzzles together. I guess it's genetic! This is one that Lisa picked out and when I looked at it in the store I was a little less than enthusiastic when I saw it but 'cheerfully' agreed to work on it! Actually it went together quickly. We sorted and had almost half of it done the first night and finished it the next afternoon in 1-1/2 hours. It was fun working on it! I'm sorry again that the picture quality is poor. One of these days I'll figure out how to take a decent picture!

Yes! Another puzzle!

This puzzle is by Jane Wooster Scott, Celebrations of America. This went together fairly fast. Lisa and I sorted it last night and had about 40% put together and finished it this afternoon in about an hour. This one is pretty. It was easy. Lisa did all the buildings, trees and sky. I put together all the people, street, grass and firework stand, fireworks in the sky and background near buildings. All those soldiers! Lisa definitely did the lion's share! We are putting together another one in a few days that will be hard! It's buttons, thread, lace, trim, etc. My next puzzle choice is going to be a Thomas Kinkade. Yikes! Muted colors!

Dad's 'classic car' puzzle - Wow! That was a hard puzzle!

Lisa gave dad this puzzle for Christmas 2009 last year. It has 1,000 pieces. Since Lisa has been visiting with us we have put together 3 puzzles, dad's being the latest. I thought that last puzzle with the ceramic looking tiles with the flowers was tough. But this one was challenging. The first picture was taken off a website. The picture below is proof that we actually put it together! You would have thought that having blue, red, orange, brown, etc. cars would be no problem, right? Well that was misleading to say the least! There were so many different shades and rust and hues that it took us '3' days to finish this one! We put the frame and sky and ground together first and then filled in the rest of the puzzle. We had a sense of achievement when we finished it! Lisa said she's ready to take on an easy one. Of course, no less than 1,000 pieces! :o)

Another puzzle!

Lisa brought this puzzle and we finished it in two days. This one was easier than the previous puzzle; however, tedious in sorting! It took quite awhile to sort all the pieces. Lisa had the clever idea of sorting it into tile sections according to what was on each tile. She was a whiz in putting them together. I'm afraid I only contributed to 'sorting' and putting together a few of the tiles. It was definitely a different type of puzzle. The previous puzzle had 3 or 4 shapes which made that hard to put together in that you thought for sure a piece fit only to find out, nope it was not. This puzzle had the 'normal' shapes which made it easier to put the last 3 dozen pieces in place. Such a sense of accomplishment when we finished!