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Month: April 2013

Section 2 Officially Underway

Section 2 Officially Underway

Finally today, April 23, 2013, I feel like I have offiically started working on Section 2.  Prior to today I had done so little, most of which had to be redone when the borders fell off (a couple of times), that I really didn’t feel like I had made any real progress. Also, I had so many stop and go’s with starting to work on Section 2 because I was still trying to figure out what to do with Section 1…

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Yet Another Change In Strategy

Yet Another Change In Strategy

I swear, by the time I get this monstrosity of a puzzle completed and mounted, I’m going to be a jigsaw puzzle mounting master!  I have changed and revised my strategy several times, and just when I think I’ve finally found the best solution, another obstacle presents itself. As I last posted, I was getting ready to put the contact paper down on the back of Section 1 so that I could easily move it off the main puzzling board…

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Section 1 – Disassembled and Reassembled

Section 1 – Disassembled and Reassembled

As I stated yesterday, here are the pictures and a description of my process in flipping Section 1 over on my main puzzling board so that contact paper can be attached to the back. STEP 1:  Take a picture of the completed puzzle section – just in case you never see it this way again!  LOL  (Just kidding!!!) STEP 2:  Carefully decide where you are going to make your cut.  I wanted to use the repeat pattern borders as my…

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Divide and Conquer

Divide and Conquer

I know I haven’t updated this in a little while, but it is because I have been playing around with some different ideas on how best to approach doing Section 2 with Section 1 still on my main puzzling board.  I didn’t want to get too deep into Section 2 until I got this figured out.  I have changed my strategy a couple of times, but I think I have finally found what is going to work the best…thanks to…

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And So It Begins

And So It Begins

I was able to work on the puzzle for a couple of hours last night which was great.  In that time, I was able to knock out the borders (top and bottom) and start on the tiger.  The first two pieces of Section 2 are officially “married”. Here’s a picture of all the border pieces laid out and separated by whether they were a top or a bottom border piece. I was initially missing two of the top border pieces,…

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Feels Like Deja Vu

Feels Like Deja Vu

Even though it’s been almost 3 years since I last sorted 6,000 jigsaw pieces, it feels like only yesterday.  LOL  Amazingly enough, I am separating the pieces into much more detailed containers, yet it feels like it hasn’t taken me as long to sort through this section as it did the first one.  I guess because I am way more familiar with the pieces and some of the more subtle textures, I am more quickly and easily able to identify which…

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After 2 Years, 8 Months, and 10 Days

After 2 Years, 8 Months, and 10 Days

I am elated to announce that SECTION 1 IS DONE!!!! I can’t believe it took me this long to finish the first section, but I am so proud of myself for sticking to my committment of getting this puzzle put together.  I am now officially 25% done!  Doesn’t seem like much in the overall scheme of things, but for me, it’s a pretty huge accomplishment since I’ve never completed any puzzle over 1500 pieces before this. It has been an…

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