OK - So who likes to do puzzles?
We have picked up puzzles on the road and have brought them back home to do. We got a 1K pcs, White Mountain "American Lighthouses" Postcard. Item 132PC.
While in Andersonville, GA we stopped at the concession and picked up this nice 1K pcs. Civil War Postcard they call it at White Mountain. Item 107PC.
Both of these puzzles were Modge Podged and framed. The lighthouse puzzle was put in a custom frame (whew!) too expensive for us even with a 50% discount. Trouble is you can not get a puzzle frame unless you specifically order one from an on-line vendor.
The last puzzle that we did is 1.5K Ceaco, Jane Wooster Scott called "Stars & Stripes" Item # 3401-8. We are looking at options to pursue to frame this one since it's out first 1500 piece puzzle that we have done. Remarkable about this puzzle is that there are basically only 2 physical shapes and they are oriented vertical or horizontal. Size 32" x 24".
We still have a little work to do on this one since some of the surfaces of the pieces are a little unglued. I use a drop of Elmer's to fix those pieces and it works well. This one took us a little while to do and all throughout putting this thing together, given that there are 1500 pcs, you wonder, "Are they all going to be there!?" Short answer, yes. We had to buy a cardboard backing at a Crafts store just to build it since it was bigger than the aluminum folding camping table that we use.
I believe that we have done just about everyone of the Wooster Scott puzzles and we also like Linda Nelson Stocks.
We had a puzzle and book swap at the
10th Anniversary Rally in Myrtle Beach this past fall and the result of that event was that there are not any takers on the puzzle swap and only a few books were exchanged. Our cousin came to visit and she loves puzzles so we gave her about 10 or so and she's got a long road to hoe before she gets those done. We also left a number of puzzles at the Ocean Lakes recreation office.
I'm going to give it another shot at the
2011 National Rally in Bethpage this fall to see if anyone wants to swap books and puzzles.
I'd like to do this one at some point. It's called
B-17 Bomber. Item # 365PZ from White Mountain Puzzles.
All made in the USA!
White Mountain Puzzles
Caeco Puzzles
Finally .. A question for the experts:
Has anyone used a small paint roller 3"-4" to apply Modge Podge istead of those small foam type brushes?