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[Witchy Woman]

@pupwhipped 

Love this one!  

See my response to @qualitygal and you will understand.

Where did you find this one?  Is a particular brand?

I need a new puzzle for fall/winter!

[ALRATIBA]

If you want to see a variety of puzzles, check Herrschners dot com

Just choose "puzzles and games" from menu across the top of the page.

Excellent variety of puzzles.   

[pupwhipped]

@Witchy Woman, hubby and I are really into Halloween, too...it's our wedding anniversary!  😲 I got that puzzle on Amazon with Prime delivery as I wanted it in a hurry. It was $17.95 and some of the reviews were not so great about puzzle pieces not fitting together but I didn't care. My husband just started on it and says it will be fine. It's called Vermont Christmas Company Little Goblins Halloween puzzle and it's 1000 pieces. Search around on Amazon cause they had some other really cute Halloween puzzles that tempted me...but I just kept coming back to this cutie. 

Happy early BOO birthday to you!!! 👻🎃🦇     

[pupwhipped]

@Witchy Woman, can't help myself. Check out these spooky ones below. And then the last one for all the dog lovers out there. Cute! 

[Witchy Woman]

@pupwhipped 

Oh, I am so envious of your Halloween anniversary!

DH and I talked about it (after being together 15+ years), but, for a variety of reasons, got married in January...and neither one of us EVER remembers the day!  Seriously, one year it was February before I even thought about it.

Anyway, I think I've seen several of the puzzles you posted but had so many I decided to wait.  

And, I've done the second to the last one called "SweetHeart Hotel" by Charles Wysocki.

I adore the print and had notecards.  From there, I sought out the print, and found the puzzle.  It was VERY challenging, but glorious when put together.

I'm not going to tell you how many I've done as I'm sure you'd think me crazy 

Here is one of my favorites called The Ghost and Haunted House.  That black sky nearly killed me!  I have it hanging in my bathroom.

Happy Puzzling!

And, Witchfest is another great one:

[pupwhipped]

OH MY, that first puzzle is fantastic! That is a real prize...or should I say treat.🎃 Ha! Ya know, I got to thinking and this actually may be the first Halloween puzzle we've ever done. How can that be? Like I said in my first post, I typically would buy Christmas puzzles as it was a fun activity to do at Thanksgiving. I've had many of them professionally framed and spared no expense. They are so special to me now. The first puzzle I ever did was back in 1980 when my mother was terminally ill. We did a few puzzles together to keep her mind (and mine) off of things. We did the most beautiful Christmas puzzle. I cheaply glued it together and then it got shoved into the back of a closet for literally 15 to 20 years. I later found it and just had to save it. I got it framed, and even though it has one or two little boo boo's on it, I treasure it more then I can say. 

Sorry to ramble on, but I hope everyone has fun with their puzzles. If you do end up getting them framed, try to have the people who worked on them sign the back. One day they could be true keepsakes.      

[Witchy Woman]

@pupwhipped 

What special memories!

I'm slightly embarrassed at the number we have hanging on our walls, but I figure people will just assume we are old and crazy

I've found a way to frame without gluing.  The frames were from Amazon, and not as expensive as professional framing.  Most were almost the exact size of the puzzle and we just flip the puzzle onto the backing from the puzzle board and then put the acrylic cover over it.

The puzzles that don't fit exactly normally need to be trimmed a tiny bit, which we do with my fabric rotary cutter.  My husband has an extremely straight eye (builder) and he gets them so exact, they fit the frame as if custom made.

I never imagined I would enjoy puzzles as I am very impatient and have an extremely short attention span (one of the reasons I no longer watch QVC). 

But, I found it very satisfying and kept going.  I fuss and fume and say I won't finish and then I'm back at the puzzle table.  I've even created a "missing" piece from one of my puzzles, so I do get obsessed. 

I think it got stuck in the plastic bag and went unnoticed when the bag was thrown away.  Now, I keep the bag and boxes until I am done.  And then, I've stored them all away.

Like I said, nutty!

My husband has done some beauties too, but I cannot resist the Halloween puzzles.

I need to get started on one soon.

[Witchy Woman]

@qualitygal 

Sorry, did not mean to derail your thread!

[riley1]

I have always found the Charles Wysocki puzzles to be fun. 

[pupwhipped]

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@Witchy Woman wrote:

@qualitygal 

Sorry, did not mean to derail your thread!

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Yes, @qualitygal, my apologies too. We're on topic with puzzles but yet off topic as well. Sorry.