As most of you know, I started working on Section 4 in my family room while still finishing up Section 3 on the puzzle table in the basement. Back in April I finally finished Section 3, but until today I had not had time to sit down there and flip the section over and put contact paper on the back. Luckily, Cole took a long nap today, and Derek was willing to play in the basement while I worked to…
In mid-2013, I was given an opportunity by Artifact Puzzles to receive a free puzzle in exchange for reviewing it and saying something about my experience on the blog. I was very skeptical at first having never experienced a company who wanted to send me something for free and not have some sort of ulterior motive for getting me to purchase the puzzle later. What I didn’t realize at the time was that this is becoming a more and more popular…
In preparation for writing this blog entry, I went back and looked at two older posts, Life After “Life” and A New York State of Mind where I mentioned a bunch of puzzles that I wanted to get and do after I finished the Life puzzle. At the time I wrote the first one, back in May, 2013, I had none of the puzzles I mentioned wanting to get. Now, just over two years later, I have all of them except two! Wow…I didn’t…
Since starting this blog, I have written a couple of posts regarding my stance on Ravensburger’s 32,000 Double Retrospect which took the title of “World’s Largest Puzzle”* away from Life: The Great Challenge in September, 2010. As I stated in those posts, I really did not like the artwork on this new record holder AT ALL initially. Then, as I started to see pictures of other people putting the puzzle together, including this great blog, it started to grow on me just a…