New Hobby? (sort of)
By webeishere
@webeishere (36313)
United States
January 14, 2008 3:27pm CST
Okay recently I had a discussion about saving jigsaw puzzles and hanging them. Well I did it now. I went out this weekend and bought me a nice one to do in my spare time. It's 1500 pieces. I got the glue as well. It's a large puzzle I feel as it is 32.75 inches in height and it.s 22.5 inches wide. I think this is going to take me a few months to finish as I don't really do a lot each day. the wife is helping out as well. And I am sure my daughter will be doing some of it when she visits as well. I thought I had a piece of plywood in the garage to use for the puzzle but it is being used as a shelf in the rafters. So I have it on my dining room table. I had to put 2 leafs in the table so there was room for at least 2 people to eat at the table. So what do you think of this puzzle? If you do puzzles what type of picture is your favorite to do? Do you glue them to save and or hang them or give them to a friend or family member once your done doing it?
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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14 responses
@ShardAerliss (1488)
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14 Jan 08
Wow, that's a beautiful picture. It'll look wonderful on the wall.
I used to do jigsaw puzzles, including the 3D ones. I had a Millenium Falcon one... but it was made of foam and my pet rats ate it :(
I generally liked doing nature scenes. Which is a nightmare; so much blank blue and green! I don't really have space where I am now (and uni kind of put a stop to it aswell... no space at all!), but I'd like to get back into them. I used to spend hours and hours of my spare time doing puzzles.
They are very relaxing as you have to focus a lot, but they are simple enough that you feel as though your brain has switched off.
Well, happy puzzling!
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
15 Jan 08
I love the 3D ones as well. I have never saved one that I did though as I gave it to charity etc. I can focus for maybe an hour tops on doing it so it will take awhile. HAHAHAHA!! Thanks also.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
15 Jan 08
Hi Grandpa Bob! What I do with a puzzle after working it depends upon what the picture is on the puzzle. Some I do as you have described and hang. Others I just enjoy working and then donate to local nursing homes and other sites. I give some to friends to work too. I read several reports lately that working jigsaw puzzles exercises a portion of the brain that isn't used often and helps in tharwting off dementia and alzheimers!
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
15 Jan 08
I always use all my brain. The thing is I only have
1 brain cell and I share that with my wife. HAHAHAHAHA!!
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@someonesmom (5761)
• Canada
15 Jan 08
This is good to know, about the brain exercising I mean. I can use all of the help I can get. Seriously, sometimes I worry that my memory's getting so bad.:(
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
15 Jan 08
This is going to take a long time. But then I am thinking "me" & puzzles, you could be a lot quicker.
I have always strongly favoured jigsaw puzzles. My daughter was given puzzles from about the age of 15 months. Now we have about 40 jigsaws.
It was always a drama when my daughter was much younger, as she wanted them displayed for a long time. I didn't want to frame one, like you are going to, because she may well want to do it again.
It was also a problem if she was doing a big puzzle, as it could lie around for quite some time before being finished.
I found the solution 2 years ago. Avon selling this felt type material. The idea is to start a jigsaw on this felt, then when it is not being done, just roll it up & put away. The jigsaw stays together.
I wrote a comment with your photo.
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
15 Jan 08
Oh this will take me sometime to finish it. I don't do a lot each day' Take today for example, I think I set maybe 5 pieces together only. HAHAHAHA! The wife and daughter will more than likely do most of it I feel which is fine by me. I don't like those roll away things. I will just keep it on the table till it's done. It's not in the way really.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
15 Jan 08
I use to build puzzles, but not enough time now. It was fun to build them with my daughter when she was growing up. Have fun building them.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
14 Jan 08
Grandpa Bob, thanks so much for reminding me how much fun jigsaw puzzles can be! I used to love to do them when I was younger but I haven't done one for years. I think I just might get myself a big one and see how long it takes me. I used to like to do anything with pretty scenery or pictures of animals. Maybe gluing and hanging my "masterpiece" might be a good idea!
Annie
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@someonesmom (5761)
• Canada
15 Jan 08
I too prefer the scenic puzzles. A couple of years ago, we gave a beautiful winter scene, with an old fashioned sleigh, etc., to my brother and sister in law. Since I selected it, I loved it, and it was hard to part with, but I managed to do so. They only had the one of this type.
@rakinitin (685)
• Canada
15 Jan 08
A new hobby is always fun BUT puzzles are great fun. I used to do them an awful lot and began putting them on my wall. I ended up with the whole wall covered. It was really cool looking. My recent new hobby for myself is mosaics. Hope it turns out nice and you enjoy the finished product.
@someonesmom (5761)
• Canada
14 Jan 08
Hi Grandpa Bob,
I wish you all of the best with your latest project. I think I'd find the 'gluing part' very tedious, but I'm sure you'll achieve great results. What a nice wall hanging this will make. We got a 1000 piece one for Christmas, that's a picture from the t.v. show 'Lost.' There is no picture of the completed puzzle to go by on the box, so it has to be looked up online, if we wish, and copied somehow. I'm not sure when we'll start it, as they do take up a lot of space, and ours is limited.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
15 Jan 08
The gluing tedious? It's just clear glue spread over the finished puzzle is all. What's tedious about that? HAHAHAHAHA!! Here's what I've done so far. Thanks. Space is limited here as well. I might buy a card table soon just for this and for my model car building hobby as well.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
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@someonesmom (5761)
• Canada
15 Jan 08
You mean you just spread clear glue over the whole thing? Well, I guess I'm naive about these things then, as I thought you had to glue it on, piece by piece. hahaha (I think). Or, do you really have to do it 'piece by piece,' Grandpa Bob, and you're just pulling my leg here?
@blackbriar (9076)
• United States
24 Jan 08
I enjoy doing puzzles as well but just don't have the room to put one in progress since my cats/kittens so enjoy stealing some of the pieces and stashing them for me to find months later after I done put the puzzle away. I do have a board I grabbed from my grandma's house that she used to use for making bread, pies and pasta that I now use for the same purposes that could work for puzzles wheneever I don't need it for food. Guess I could clean it up and use the other side for puzzles while saving the one side for food stuff alone. Just the right size and the edges are worn rounded from years and years of use. The one I have is of a Japanese water garden and I bought it ages ago for the sole purpose of gluing/hanging it some time in the future. It's a beautiful puzzle.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
15 Jan 08
I think doing a jigsaw puzzle and gluing it, then hanging it is a superb idea. Too many jigsaw puzzles lay in boxes with one or two pieces of it missing. I think that it must be quite good fun for you to complete a 1500 piece puzzle over a few months. Then when you glue the pieces together and hang it on the wall you will have happy memories of making it. I think that your puzzle sounds great. If I bought a puzzle it would be a world map or a photo of a tropical beach or island. Giving a puzzle to a friend or member of your family is a good idea for any puzzles that you don't wish to hang.
@OURDEW (4809)
• United States
15 Jan 08
I remember as a kid my dad would buy a puzzle with 1500 pieces and we would have on our dinning room table. We would all work on it a little at a time.
My son bought and put together a photomosaics puzzle with 300 pieces. It's a picture of Pirates of the Caribbean. We did put glue on it.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
15 Jan 08
My grandsons love Captain Jack Sparrow.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@whittby (3072)
• United States
24 Jan 08
Hi! i remember the last puzzle I did and kept together. I got something at the JoAnn store - I'm thinking modge podge or something similar. They make stuff just for puzzles. Anyway, AFTER the puzzle is completed, you give it a bunch of coats and presto, it's all together. I simply cannot imagine gluing the pieces individually, or did I understand this wrong?
good luck.
@squaretile (3778)
• Singapore
15 Jan 08
yes i love doing puzzles. I think i mentioned that in your earlier discussion as well.
So far I've done one of the tulip gardens in holland that are called keukenhof I think, and it was a bright and beautiful 2000 piece jigsaw that i framed up and gave my parents.
it's a great bonding thing to do puzzles. sometimes you are there just quietly making the puzzles fit and yet it's good time spent with each other. you can talk when you feel like it, or keep silent when you don't. :)
@glitzypurple (1477)
• Philippines
15 Jan 08
I have a framed puzzle that I did here on the walls of my room, and I have one also of san francisco bridge :) and also the DOG... I'm planning to have it framed again soon...
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