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Doing a jigsaw puzzle again. Second one this week.

qualitygal — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:56:35 GMT

Watching a few videos on YouTube by some other people who do jigsaw puzzles.

Anyone else working on a jigsaw puzzle?

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4kitties — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:13:18 GMT

I love to work a jigsaw puzzle. I usually have one going on my dining room table and I work it when I have time. I find it to be very calming, and relaxing when I feel stressed.

I bought two 1000 piece from Cobble Hill right before Christmas. But have not yet opened them.

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Big Joanie — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:20:16 GMT

@4kitties wrote:
I love to work a jigsaw puzzle. I usually have one going on my dining room table and I work it when I have time. I find it to be very calming, and relaxing when I feel stressed.

I bought two 1000 piece from Cobble Hill right before Christmas. But have not yet opened them.

MeToo ....

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Meowingkitty — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:55:40 GMT

I started doing them again the past few months. I counted 15 in my pile to do. I just finished one and recently started another. I do have a,problem though. I can't stop buying them. Especially if there are kitties in it.

This is the one I'm doing now.

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Laura14 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:50:50 GMT

My current one...

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4kitties — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:04:26 GMT

The larger puzzles are nice, but Dollar Tree has smaller ones that are really great for only $1.25! The 350 piece ones are good if I want to just do a puzzle in one sitting. A bit easy, but sometimes I like that. Then they also have 500 piece that are a bit more challenging.

They are smaller in size too which is nice for someone with limited space. I can keep one out on one half of our kitchen table and Mr4kitties and I still have the other half open for meals.

The puzzle size is 20in by 12in for both.

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Roscoe the Rascal — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:12:56 GMT

I have several puzzles not opened that I usually pick up after the holidays for half off. Found some neat ones this year. Cobble Hill ones.

My problem is my cat. She makes a mess out of my puzzle so have not done any these last couple years. I have a nice puzzle board with drawers and all that. My husband got me that for Christmas a couple years back.

So the other day I ordered a mat to fit on top of the puzzle board with a cover so I can zip it up. I am waiting for that to come from Amazon and hoping that solves my problem because two things I do enjoy doing in the winter is puzzles and reading.

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4kitties — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:14:43 GMT

Those ornery kitties!!!😹😹😹😹

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Krimpette — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:22:44 GMT

I love jigsaw puzzles and work on them every day.....on my computer. I really don't have a good place to work reguolar puzzles. When I had cats, one of my cats would sit on the dining room chair and would reach up and sneak a puzzle piece off the table and try to hide it! I thoroughly enjoy the relaxation of working a puzzle. (I get mine from a site called JigsawsGalore dot com.)

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LindaSal — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:40:26 GMT

I'm not very good at jigsaw puzzles nor do I have the patience for them, that being said though my adult kids love them. They say it's their "therapy". Every year one of their Christmas gifts is a new puzzle 1500-2000 pieces, from Sprinkbok Puzzles made in the USA. I learned about that very company on this forum. They frame many of them, I even have a few of them hung in my garage. One is a map of the National Parks, one is an owl and the newest is a huge one of hot air balloons.

I really appreciate the finished product and am actually amazed at the talent and patience of all of you!

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deeva — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:15:50 GMT

@Laura14

This puzzle is beautiful. How many pieces is it?

I started doing puzzles over the summer when the temps over 110° here.

I used to do round puzzles when I was younger.

I'm glad I decided to start doing them again.

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Still Raining — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:24:10 GMT

I remember as a kid we had to be careful of grandma's card table with a puzzle ❤️

For some reason I tend more to crosswords.

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smoochy — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:28:16 GMT

funny you should ask. Having never been interested, I suddenly got the urge. I bought a nice puzzle board and some sorting boxes. Now I'm trying to figure out how how experienced puzzlers begin. Seems like finding all the edge pieces would be smart, yes? Then maybe sort by color?? Did I mention how helpful my cat and kitten are? Oh yes indeed. Walking up and down the tilted board, stealing pieces right in front of me etc. 😁And using the felted board as a scratcher now that is very naughty.
I will happily take any puzzle tips you have for me as I don't know what I'm doing lol

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Shelbelle — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:41:07 GMT

Good brain therapy, my daughter and gr son do them together. My office has one out all the time on a large table and when workers are on a break they like for them to go over and work on the puzzle.

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Seminole2 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:45:42 GMT

Working on a 1000 piece puzzle that we bought in Asheville. Depicts the Chihuly piece of art. Down to all of the black pieces. Ugh!

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Seminole2 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:48:24 GMT

@smoochy everyone has their own style. Me personally I always find the frame pieces first. Then pick something out in the puzzle to start with and continue until done

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Kachina624 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:57:03 GMT

@Krimpette wrote:
I love jigsaw puzzles and work on them every day.....on my computer. I really don't have a good place to work reguolar puzzles. When I had cats, one of my cats would sit on the dining room chair and would reach up and sneak a puzzle piece off the table and try to hide it! I thoroughly enjoy the relaxation of working a puzzle. (I get mine from a site called JigsawsGalore dot com.)

@Krimpette. I tried doing puzzles online but there was so much advertising one had to wade through, I soon got disgusted and gave up. They were fun briefly when you finally got to them.

Do you know a good site?

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cody2 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:59:09 GMT

Love puzzles and always have one going on the dining room table. As others have said, I find it very relaxing and fun.

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Laura14 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:11:03 GMT

@deeva wrote:
@Laura14

This puzzle is beautiful. How many pieces is it?

I started doing puzzles over the summer when the temps over 110° here.

I used to do round puzzles when I was younger.
I'm glad I decided to start doing them again.

@deeva It is a 1000 piece puzzle that I got at Hobby Lobby but I think Amazon sells it too.

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Krimpette — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:39:53 GMT

@Kachina624 The site I have used for years and years is: jigsawsgalore dot com. They have some free puzzle sets, but you can also buy sets of 50 puzzles in a whole host of topics. They have sales of the sets a few time of year. Those sets typically will offer 3 of their latest sets. There is absolutely no advertising.

It's an excellent site. You can change the number of pieces, sizes of the pieces, shapes of the pieces, background colors, etc.

I highly recommend this site. Over the years, I've probably ordered 75 sets or more. (Can you tell that I'm addicted?)

And if you need tech support, the developer is very helpful and responds promptly. His name is name i David Gray.

If you liked doing puzzles on your computer, I highly recommend at least exploring this site. I think you'll be impressed with their offerings.

(And no, I have no connection to the site or developer! I can't even recall how I happened upon it, but I sure am glad I did! I doubt that a day goes by that i don't spend at least a few minutes (often hours!) every day!!)

Enjoy, if you decide to take a look!