Starting On A New Puzzle Today

My Puzzle
@marlina (154165)
Canada
January 14, 2016 10:03am CST
Today I am starting working on a new puzzle. This one has 500 pieces and it is of a log house with a pond and lots of Fall colors. The light coming from the outside is superb as it is very sunny and my puzzle table is facing the west side. Perfect for puzzling. I received a lot of puzzles at Christmas time but could not work on them until now as my neck was too stiff. I will just do a little at a time as not to aggravate the neck any further. Do you enjoy doing puzzles in the winter months?
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@Morleyhunt (21736)
• Canada
14 Jan 16
I have two puzzles waiting for me. Both have 1000 pieces...who counts them to make sure there really are 1000.
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
14 Jan 16
It's hard enough to separate the colors and the frame, never counting them
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
14 Jan 16
@AbbyGreenhill True, I gues
• United States
14 Jan 16
@marlina You know when your done if you had all 1000 or not!
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@LadyDuck (459302)
• Switzerland
14 Jan 16
I love this puzzle, I used to do puzzles, but it seems that I have less and less free time.
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• United States
14 Jan 16
I used to build puzzles with my sister when I was younger! After you're done do you frame the puzzle or just take a photo and back the pieces go into the box?
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
14 Jan 16
No, I never framed any of the puzzles I made so far.
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@Juliaacv (48577)
• Canada
15 Jan 16
Yes, we love to set up a puzzle usually we'd set up a table with a puzzle on it the day after Christmas and work on it with our son when he was little and on Christmas holidays from school. He received a beautiful puzzle as a gift this year, its of the globe and the box resembles a box and is finished on all sides so it looks like an atlas that you'd have on the bookshelf.
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
15 Jan 16
That must be a lovely puzzle.
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• United States
14 Jan 16
I used to love doing them at my parents' home. They had a table in the living room set up just for puzzles. I have no place to do them.
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
15 Jan 16
I have the perfect place for doing my puzzles.
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@DianneN (247219)
• United States
14 Jan 16
I love doing puzzles any time of year. Enjoy!
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
14 Jan 16
Thanks, I only do a little bit at a time as my neck gets too stiff if I do too long.
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@DianneN (247219)
• United States
14 Jan 16
@marlina Me, too, because I have so many other things to get done. Grrrr
@kaka135 (14916)
• Malaysia
15 Jan 16
The puzzle looks beautiful! I like the log house. I enjoy doing puzzles, I think it's fun, especially doing it with family members. I built a few puzzles together with my husband when my elder son was still very young, so he didn't disturb us. When he was older, we just couldn't manage to build the puzzle as he was around playing with the puzzles. I recently built a 1000-piece puzzle together with my son. He likes building puzzle, and of course that's too big for him, so we built it together. We always have fun building the puzzles together, though it's quite time consuming and tiring sometimes.
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@kaka135 (14916)
• Malaysia
18 Jan 16
@marlina We did the 1000 pieces as we found we just liked the puzzles. But, I do not know why I always prefer the 1000 pieces.
@marlina (154165)
• Canada
15 Jan 16
The most pieces I am doing is 500. Don't want to go any higher than that.
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@celticeagle (159538)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Jan 16
My daughter loves puzzles. She usually puts them together in the winter. Then she uses this geletin stuff that she mixes from a powder and puts that on the back and she can hang up the puzzle. She used to have them all over the house.
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@celticeagle (159538)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Jan 16
@marlina ....I used to do that too. Then she got this idea.
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
15 Jan 16
I don't keep them done. I undo them and later on will do them again.
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@Orson_Kart (6118)
• United Kingdom
14 Jan 16
Last puzzle I tried said 3 to 5 years on the box and it only took me 10 minutes to do!
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
14 Jan 16
I do and I just finished one today and hubby started another.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
15 Jan 16
@marlina It is and a little brain challenge.
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
15 Jan 16
Fun to do, isn't it?
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@amnabas (13742)
• Karachi, Pakistan
14 Jan 16
I like apps puzzle game I do play them to increase the vocabulary.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
15 Jan 16
we did several at christmas, hubby doesnt like, so I dont do here because it would take me way too long alone
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
15 Jan 16
You need a table that you don't use all the time.
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
16 Jan 16
@Jessicalynnt Yes, one needs some room for doing puzzles.
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• Centralia, Missouri
16 Jan 16
@marlina pretty much, and a place for said table.
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@DeborahDiane (40065)
• Laguna Woods, California
15 Jan 16
Every year, after Christmas dinner when our kids were growing up, we would start a puzzle on the dining room table. Since we only ate in our formal dining room on holidays, we could spend months working on it ... and sometimes our family did. It was fun, and so satisfying when we would finish one!
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
15 Jan 16
Its' exciting to see the pieces going into the right place, especially at the end.
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• Laguna Woods, California
17 Jan 16
@marlina - Yes, our kids really enjoyed our family project each year.
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@AnneEJ (4917)
• Dollard-Des-Ormeaux, Quebec
15 Jan 16
I started a new one last night, it is 1000 pieces and is of a lighthouse. It will take awhile because there is a lot of sky and water. I love doing puzzles, especially during the winter.
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
16 Jan 16
That is going to be a tough puzzle to do with all that blue.
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
16 Jan 16
@AnneEJ I have never done more than a 500 pieces
@AnneEJ (4917)
• Dollard-Des-Ormeaux, Quebec
16 Jan 16
@marlina I like the challenging ones
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@tiffnkeat (1673)
• Singapore
17 Jan 16
Jigsaw puzzles develop patience, but it is not for me. I am sure you can take as long as you wish. If it aggravates your neck, maybe jigsaw is not the right approach for you. Why not consult a doctor. Puzzles don't solve neck problems. If you have too many puzzles and working at them causes neck aches, give the puzzles away, as gifts or prizes.
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
17 Jan 16
I only do a few minutes at each session, this way my neck is okay.
@Manasha (2727)
• Pondicherry, India
14 Jan 16
this is exemplary and been loving for a long time
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@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
15 Jan 16
I haven't done a jigsaw for years, I used to love them. I have problems with my neck too - I wonder if it's the way we sit at our computers?
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
15 Jan 16
I got my neck in trouble years ago when using the gas lawn mower.
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@amadeo (111948)
• United States
14 Jan 16
IT HAS BEEN AWHILE FOR ME.CANNOT REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I DONE A PUZZLE
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
14 Jan 16
Hello Alfredo, you changed your avatar?
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
14 Jan 16
My sister is a great puzzler, but I haven't done one since my boys were young! Maybe with my grandson
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
14 Jan 16
Maybe you are missing something?
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
14 Jan 16
@marlina Possibly, but I don't have the sort of life where jigsaws would fit in
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• Canada
17 Jan 16
I love puzzles. I used to do them all the time with my Grandma. I miss that...
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@marlina (154165)
• Canada
17 Jan 16
I used to do puzzles with my Mom too and I also miss those days.