I guess I never wrote about my jigsaw puzzles. I’ve always liked doing them. Many Thanksgivings and Christmases in Santa Clara featured a jigsaw puzzle. Mom likes doing them and had has one going occasionally. Dad thinks it’s foolishness so he ignores the whole thing.
I had talked about doing them here at my apartment for a long time. I even went shopping for a folding table but the ones I found were funky so I blew it off.
Then Rose came over one day and brought a table that she said she never used. It was nice: good support and surface and size. A week or so later she brought over a new puzzle. I was off!
That was about a year ago. Since then, I’ve had a puzzle going pretty much all the time. I’ve gone through everything that Mom has. I’ve bought a few puzzles and Sarah gave me one but a couple of weeks ago I finished one and had nothing in the pipeline. Barnes and Noble carries puzzles as does Target, but I didn’t care for the ones they had so . . to the Internet!
I started at the website of the last one I did. It was made in USA and decent quality. That led to Puzzle Warehouse. They had some that I liked. As I put the first couple in the cart, they announced free shipping for an order over $75. Oh well, I don’t do this often. Six puzzles later, I’m done.
They came a couple of days ago and now my puzzle table is full again! Now I just have to figure out where to store the others . . .
Hello, old camp friend of Zach’s here.
I also enjoy messing with jigsaw puzzles, and ran into the problem of storing them as well. I have had a lot of fun using a peel-and-stick puzzle saver (check Amazon), which will allow you to put them up as wall art and ditch the boxes (plus,, what are the chances you’ll do it again?). My favorites are the Charley Harper ones from Pomegranate – I’ve found that hanging a completed puzzle with his work is actually way cheaper than buying a poster of the same art! Gives a good sense of accomplishment to look around the room, too.
Hi J, nice to hear from you. To me, the puzzles are a process and I’m not really interested in keeping the images on my wall. I have things on my walls that are more meaningful to me. Like guitars! Maybe I’ll do a post on what’s on my walls. Some of it might be interesting.
Ripping up the puzzle that you’ve just spent weeks putting together is a bit of a wrench sometimes but I look at it as the nature of the beast. On to the next one!