Today’s blog post will not be much about puzzling, although I will throw a couple of pics in there just because it is, always and truly, a puzzle blog after all. In a few short hours, my family will celebrate my youngest son Cole as he is called to the Torah to become a Bar Mitzvah. I’m not Jewish myself so you’ll have to bear with me as I may not have all of this correct, but from what I…
This puzzle was a lot of fun and just what I needed at the time. Life has been extremely busy during the month of July as we prepare for Cole’s Bar Mitzvah this weekend. At a mere 300 pieces, it was a quick and easy build but the image is adorable enough that it didn’t matter. I could have easily done this one in a larger piece count and I think it would have also been relatively easy. I always…
Hello! My name is Penny and I am a puzzle addict! No truer words have been spoken after this week when I finally started tackling my puzzle collection. I have been collecting puzzles since about 2009, but my puzzle buying addiction has gotten progressively worse over the years to the point where I’m sometimes buying the same puzzle twice, or in the case of one Aimee Stewart image I discovered, thrice! I can’t say much for my memory here, but…
The final two shakes in this set don’t really appeal to me at all. I am sure they are good, but they are too busy for my tastes. Overall this 12 puzzle set was a ton of fun and I am glad that I finally sat down to do it. Way more fun than I had even thought. I would highly recommend these puzzles to anyone who enjoys the mini-shaped puzzles or absolutely freaky looking shakes.
“Shakedown” is just one of countless songs I love by Bob Seger. He has been one of my all-time favorite singers since I was a kid. I was lucky enough a handful of years ago to see him in concert with Randy. He has such a fantastic, next door neighbor approach to connecting with the audience. It was awesome as he really came across as someone you would invite to a backyard bbq and hang out with — especially if…
KC and the Sunshine Band is a great 70’s disco band who have produced numerous awesome tunes over the years. This one being one of my favorites and it felt appropriate for the second part of the Freaky Shakes puzzle series. i liked these next two shakes quite a bit. Love the inverted ice cream cone on the one to the left. This shake makes me think of sherbert, and I can imagine the different flavors I ate as a…
“Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift is one of the few songs I don’t immediately switch XM satellite radio stations when it comes on. I don’t know why, but I’m just not a big fan of hers. Yes, I think she’s an incredibly smart business woman to make her career what it is today, and I’m totally aligned with her stance on our government, but that’s about where it ends for me. Some of you will be disappointed to hear,…
I’ve been writing up a lot of blog posts lately as I took multiple long breaks from the blog where I didn’t write anything about the puzzles I was doing. So now that I’m trying to be much better at regularly posting, I have a pretty large backlog of puzzles that I did, took pictures of (most of the time), and am now starting to add into the blog. As I’m doing this, a few patterns are emerging that I’m…
I love a good Dowdle puzzle every now and again. They are usually gorgeous and he has a great way of capturing people, and even though in most of his puzzles they’re tiny, you can usually still make out a lot of detail. I give him and Aimee Stewart a lot of credit for being able to create such tiny details in a puzzle image. They are both excellent artists in my opinion. Plus, it certainly makes for entertaining builds…
I love the Dog Days series by Buffalo Games and have done a ton of them and have a bunch more still in my To Do Mountain. Pizza Time Pups was a super fun image. Who doesn’t love a good pizza party? These cute little guys certainly seem like they are more than ready to start chowing down. The head chef being a Corgi makes me laugh as a dog with that short of legs would have a difficult time…