Anyone have a jigsaw puzzle in progress?

Do you guys [gals I mean!] like puzzles with the bigger pieces and odd shapes [like with lots of points and corners on the, etc.]?

That's the only way I can explain them, they aren't the regular type puzzle pieces.

Recently I bought 2 puzzles [name brand is Suns Out] and they had these type of pieces and I hate them!

My good friend loves puzzles and doing different type ones so she put one together for me already and is gonna do the other one.

Those are the ones I ordered online and then wouldn't ya know it, one puzzle I bought in a store had the same time of pieces.

Grrrrrr ... I don't like change! *lol*

I like just the regular traditional type of puzzle pieces.

I'm glad she'll do them for me because especially the two I ordered, I desperately wanted them to put on my walls.

Just was disappointed when I opened the box is all.

Puzzles will be nice when done but just not being done by me is all. *lol*

~*Jen*~

I'm doing Educa's 1500 piece "Sunlit Stroll." Pretty, but a LOT harder than it looked like it would be. But I have a little more than 1/2 of it done and it's getting a little easier --if only because there are fewer pieces left to look at.

I'm with Clutterbug Jen on the piece shapes. I really dislike the odd ones. I have a lot of Bits and Pieces and Sunsout puzzles with them. I do them, but they irritate me. I love Ravensburger and Educa because they have only the traditional squared up pieces. Maybe FX Schmidt too, but I really can't remember. I haven't worked one of those for quite a while.

I hope to finish this one tonight after work and in a marathon puzzle day tomorrow - I have a few days off that are going to be all play and no work for a change. And then I'm going to do an EASY one. Just to see something happening a little bit faster!

Donna, is Bits & Pieces a puzzle brand?

I know I've heard of a website called that so was just wondering.

I do know that if I know a certain brand usually has those weird shaped peices [or extra big pieces], I will not buy from them.

That's why I'm wondering if Bits and Pieces is a brand or if you mean that you bought puzzles from them and they were the weird ones. *lol*

I so wish I could start a puzzle tonight but there is just no way.

This afternoon I started painting the paneling in the livingroom and ugh - everything is totally tore apart and no way I could relax and work on a puzzle with it this way. *lol*

Jean, one of these days I'd love to get a puzzle board.

Of course I couldn't put it under the love seat that I have now but would find somewhere to put it.

Love,

Jen

Emily,

My friend did an Indian Princess puzzle not long ago and it was a round one and was absolutely gorgeous!

Yes, isn't that weird that the puzzles are 504 pieces and not just 500? *lol*

I have a bunch of puzzles sitting in the closet but there's just no way I can start one now.

This place is half upside down with painting and what isn't upside down soon will be when I have to move more stuff to get to the walls.

Maybe tonight what I'll do is to open one of my new boxes [504 piece ones] and at least sort the border out and put them in a baggie so I'll be able to do something with it.

It's hard to believe how much I've gotten into them over the past month or so and how easy it is to get puzzle fever. :lol:

You're welcome for the thread ... I'm glad you're enjoying it [I m too! ]

Love,

Jen

Emily, I may try that when things settle down here a bit.

Tonight I got desperate so I did end up opening a new puzzle and sorted all of the edge pieces out.

Not the same as starting a puzzle [well, it is the same I guess *lol*] but you know what I mean.

At least I got a little of my puzzle fix for now. *lol*

Love,

Jen