JIGSAWS

I love jigsaws! Through our terrible winter I put together over 15 of them. Some I bought but most of them were ones I'd done before. The puzzle below is titled, Hawaiian Wedding.

This is a Hometown Collection, the work of Heronim, a white-haired gentleman.

He always hides a little black cat in each of his paintings. But..........I can't find the

cat in this puzzle. It's probably there, just too small to see.

These pics shows some detail.

The box.

A close up of the puzzle.

And another close up. 

For some reason the pics are coming up in the wrong spots. Oh, well........

This is another artist I really like - Charles Wysocki. I have done over 20 of his

paintings. I like the detail just like the Heronim detail. 

More close up the Heromin puzzle.

I have a very specific way I do puzzles. I take the pieces out, separating them by

sky, buildings, people, flags, horses and buggies, words, greenery, etc. I pull the edges and put these pieces each in their own plastic container. Then I assemble the edges and slowly work my way through

each container, assembling and placing in the correct spot. I have 12 pieces of white cardboard

that I use to lay the pieces out, by subject and also by shape.

This is an example of how I lay out the pieces. My friends make fun of me and call

me anal. That's ok with me. I also do not let anyone do a puzzle with me. If a friend stops by

and sees a piece that fits they may put it in but they may not sit for any length of time and

work the puzzle with me. 

Now that the weather has warmed up (except for today - it's 50 degrees out) I will not do

puzzles. When it is humid, the pieces stick to my arms, then fall on the floor and I

have one hell of a time finding them. So that's the jigsaw blog. Ciao!