I love doing jigsaw puzzles, and some times when I have one I really like I glue it and frame it.
summerrain, go to the hobby store and buy sheets of clear mylar , it is adhesive backed and you and gently lay it over the top of finished puzzles then frame them if you choose....*S*
I love jigsaw puzzles I have been doing them all my life. I stopped lately because my Family (cats) always want to help. They jump up on the table and try to play with the pieces. Now I don't have a large enough table to put them on and leave them until I want to do them later because my living space is too small. I refuse to do any that are under 1000 pieces. I also tried the vertical ones but I didn't like them.
I use to love doing then girl, but now it s trying to find a place to keep them going and safe.
Kids HELP me alot but then lose some pieces or Sam gets a hold of a piece-no telling where the pieces will end up then.
posted by KBird
6 months ago
Mother was the jig saw puzzle guru in our house.
My father even built a special table just for her to work on them. It was canted so that she could sit on the sofa and pull the tabletop over her lap. It was big enough for one of those mega-piece puzzles.
I tried to do one recently, but found my cats liked the tat of the pieces, leaving me short a few.
I also have the problem with the cats but now I have a room where they cant get in and we started one the other night all we got done was the border but it is there safely waiting for our return. I did 3 Thomas Kincade puzzles and each puzzle had one piece missing. The two cats I had would get on top of the puzzle and lay down. I never did find those pieces.
I started working puzzles with my grandma. She always had one going. Now I have grandkids that like to help me. I have several that were just too nice to take apart so have them glued and on the wall. Just recently I met a lady on EONS that had some to trade so we shipped each other some we had on hand. I just don't care to work any twice. I have a big display board that folds up and I can just slide it under the sofa when I'm not working on it. These are the cardboard things they sell for science projects.
Loved them, Cat and still do
My mother and I worked them as I grew up and I still enjoy them. When my 2 boys were preteens and teens, I always kept a puzzle going on the kitchen counter. Our house was the gathering house and there were at least 10 other boys their age in the neighborhood, who would always stop to work on them when they came over. Their mothers said they would never work on a puzzle at home. I miss them all being around.
I have enjoyed jigsaw puzzles for many years and here in the apartment building where I live we have one going all of the time in our big laundry room. I seem to be the one that always gets out a new one and start it by doing the border. I only like to do the 1000 or more piece puzzles. The 500 piece ones are too easy.