I’m a member of the most wonderful jigsaw puzzle club - The BCD! Well, this year it celebrates its 40th birthday and members came from all over the world to gather in Coventry for the occasion. There were puzzles galore, tables of sales, talks, show and tell and plenty of dinners. The theme was ‘simply red’ and we also celebrated British jigsaw puzzle cutters. A fabulous weekend!
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This year I have set myself the target of completing at least 100 jigsaws. This is for a number of reasons:
1. I currently can’t move in the garage because of all the jigsaws in there to be done!
2. Jigsaws genuinely make me happy and I should put aside more time for them
3. Every jigsaw I check is then sold and raises money for a group local to me.
I’d happily do more than 100, but that would probably mean I do nothing else, and sadly I still have to work! Anyway, 9 for January isn’t too shabby a start…
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I decided that only festive puzzles could be done in December and managed to stick to it - well, almost, but it was a Christmas present and the first line of the story is Christmas themed. A lovely month.
I used to get my advent puzzle from the big brands and although they were fine, I much prefer the ones where you build an image day by day. This one was fun and reasonable quality, and only one piece was in the wrong box, and even then it was only one box along. A success.
But that meant a lovely excuse to stay in and puzzle…and puzzle I did! I was also lucky enough to visit a jigsaw puzzle factory and see puzzles being made, cut and bagged - a real experience!
So I’ve done quite a bit of puzzling this month, but have had the same number of completed vs missing pieces so my final photo showing doesn’t look at impressive. Luckily all puzzles with missing pieces were only missing 1, so still good to sell at the bargain price of 20p. The completed…well, take a look…
