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#58 - complete a 1000+ piece puzzle

This goal seems pretty trivial, but I LOVE puzzles.  They're so therapeutic, which is why I should do them more often...and yet I never do, which is why I put it on my list.

A few Christmases ago, I received "The World's Smallest 1000-Piece Puzzle" from my good friend Sara George-Kreider, and I'm ashamed to admit it took me almost two years to actually put it together.  Eventually, though, I did, and it was awesome!  It wasn't one of those stupid puzzles where the water and the sky look exactly the same and you put one in the wrong place and it throws the entire puzzle off.  Instead, there was a subtle but clear differentiation between what was water and what was not.

It's the little things.


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  1. Sara K.October 18, 2010 at 6:17 PM

    Oh yeah, I love those tiny puzzles :) And that one does have a pretty diverse color scheme. Good job!

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  2. HeidiOctober 18, 2010 at 7:07 PM

    Awesome! We are big into puzzles around here. Well, Christian is. I got him a 2000-piece beast from a yard sale awhile back and it was hard! It was Las Vegas at night, so basically all the sky/mountain pieces looked the same.

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