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Jigsaw Puzzles

My Wife does these puzzles. Me not so much. I might find/fit a few pieces. Our Granddaughters help her quite often.

Once the puzzle is done, they paint it with glue, and they frame it. I usually make the custom fitted frame. Then it either goes on a family wall some where, or is donated to the local St Jude Ranch. Especially the nicer ones.

I just remembered this. About 5-6 years ago, my wife bought a decent size puzzle. It was a winter outdoor scene, with wolves involved. That's what the box lid showed. She kept it around for quite a while. Once she finally did open the box, the puzzle pieces were blank. We had a good laugh, and put it away. She still has this blank puzzle last I knew.
 
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WLG1952 said:
My Wife does these puzzles. Me not so much. I might find/fit a few pieces. Our Granddaughters help her quite often.

Once the puzzle is done, they paint it with glue, and they frame it. I usually make the custom fitted frame. Then it either goes on a family wall some where, or is donated to the local St Jude Ranch. Especially the nicer ones.

I just remembered this. About 5-6 years ago, my wife bought a decent size puzzle. It was a winter outdoor scene, with wolves involved. That's what the box lid showed. She kept it around for quite a while. Once she finally did open the box, the puzzle pieces were blank. We had a good laugh, and put it away. She still has this blank puzzle last I knew.
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I would probably do the blank puzzle. 🤷‍♂️
 
I used to do a lot of puzzles when I was a kid - my mam did a lot and kinda passed that interest on to me

Did a lot of the regular shaped puzzles, but also had a number of novelty ones as well, such as one that came in a tin that looked like a tin of beans and, you can guess, it was a circular puzzle that looked like a plate of beans

A couple of the toughest puzzles I had were a map of the moon with all of the craters etc mapped out on it, and another that was titled 'Hay in a needlestack' which was effectively a lot of pieces with needles and others with the hay across it (example pic below)

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TheDoctor said:
I used to do a lot of puzzles when I was a kid - my mam did a lot and kinda passed that interest on to me

Did a lot of the regular shaped puzzles, but also had a number of novelty ones as well, such as one that came in a tin that looked like a tin of beans and, you can guess, it was a circular puzzle that looked like a plate of beans

A couple of the toughest puzzles I had were a map of the moon with all of the craters etc mapped out on it, and another that was titled 'Hay in a needlestack' which was effectively a lot of pieces with needles and others with the hay across it (example pic below)

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oh that looks horrifying.
 
Canadan said:
oh that looks horrifying.
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Haha, yeah, not for the weak minded

We are going to visit my mam tomorrow so I will see if she still has any of the puzzles that I did as a kid and if she does I will grab some pics
 
Here was my last. BD0DB8BB-5A5F-4A7F-92F8-F1926AA8F9EF.jpeg
 
Finished 3 custom puzzles in the last week, small at 250 -500 pieces but personal memories all. Made me miss Italy.
 
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2000 :cool:
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Nice, my daughter gifted me a 3000 piece puzzle for Christmas last year, but I just don’t have the workspace to finish it. Still had fun doing as much of it as I could.
 
Grins said:
I love jigsaw puzzles - but this looks like cruel and unusual punishment. Is this from the S&M division of Milton Bradley?
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To quote Homer Simpson (referring to Monopoly), “ I don’t know how those Parker’s Brothers sleep at night.”

Same principle applies. 🤷‍♂️
 
How's this for 'destroy Dan's mental balance'..... Cal took a piece of the puzzle I was working on yesterday and we can no longer find it... So I "finished" the puzzle with a tiny little "F U" gap in the middle.

Naturally, I immediately got in the car, went and bought another one, and started on it before going to sleep... because that would have destroyed me.
 
One of 3 I had made from Zazzle.com and finished this week, they are small, but nice memories and this one makes me a bit nostalgic for Italy.
 

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At our school there is a huge panoramic jigsaw of the Sistine Chapel ceiling (maybe 3 feet by 8 feet?) glued together, framed and hanging on the wall in one of the classrooms.

This is the closest thing I can find on Amazon. I always thought that would be so cool to tackle something that large.
 
I think this may be it:

or this one: 18,000 piece puzzle measuring 10.5 feet by 5 feet
 
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Monday off of work and just starting a little jigsaw with my daughter :love:

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Have a look at some of these.....

For all golfers and gardeners everywhere..... THIS ONE

And for you sweet lovers..... HOW ABOUT THIS
 
TheDoctor said:
Have a look at some of these.....

For all golfers and gardeners everywhere..... THIS ONE

And for you sweet lovers..... HOW ABOUT THIS
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The grass puzzle looks like so much fun, it’s inspired me to turn my avatar photo into a custom jigsaw puzzle. Now just have to find a good site to get it done!
 
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