Despite being the king (oops, I meant jack) of all hobbies,
I have to admit, I haven 't done a lot of hobby related things lately. I could blame the weather, or I could blame
myself and the fall TV schedule. Either
way, I haven't had a lot to write about.
I have been writing my other blog, whose links you can find
on the right side of this page under the title "cool blogs". Mine is called Today's Perfect Moment. I have been putting a lot of energy there and
have grown a rather large community in a short time. There seems to be a lot more cross blogging
done there and the page is set up to encourage followers.
HOBBY HAPPENINGS
While I haven't done a lot, I have done some things. Most recently, I got the itch to do a
puzzle. Maybe it is because I associate puzzles with Christmas. I am surprised that no one gives these things as stocking stuffers anymore. Knowing how addicting that can
be, I really wasn't in the mood to tackle a monster 5000 piece puzzle. I also didn't want to spend a lot of money. What was my answer...the dollar store of
course.
I found a couple of decent puzzles at the dollar store
(Dollar Tree in this case) and purchased them for $1.25 each. Even with Canadian tax, that still brought in
two puzzles for less than $3.
I spent a couple of nights on the first one. There seems to be no deterioration in my
puzzle building skills and I was able to do it rather quickly. Of course, that first night, I did the usual
"just one more piece before I go to bed" thing, and wound up spending
a hour or more when I should have been sleeping. This probably was to the detriment of my students
but I didn't actually yawn while teaching.
The puzzle wasn't the best quality. The fit was a little loose and it came apart
a couple of times. Some pieces still had
untrimmed edges (there seemed to be extra paper at the bottom layer of some of
the pieces) and one was a little crumpled.
However, it only cost $1.25, so I can't get tremendously angry about
that.
When I lived in Japan
I was trying figure out too about putting the puzzles I do in a frame but I chose just take a picture, post it, and then put it away for others to do. Thanks for the link to your site, I enjoyed it. :)
ReplyDeleteIn Japan, they make frames that fit puzzles exactly--maybe puzzle makers are restricted to specific sizes--puzzle frames have an inner board with a ledge that allows you to build the puzzle onto the frame base. Puzzles also come with glue and a spreader tool
ReplyDeleteOf course. these puzzles don't come in the dollar store.
Thanks for checking out my link.
That sounds neat and thank you for the info!
DeleteThat sounds neat and thank you for the info!
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