COVID-19 has at least one good influence: people have found puzzles again. Making puzzles is cheap hobby you can do at home. You can swap puzzles with your friends by leaving the puzzle behind the doorstep.
Puzzles are perfect for family time sessions. They also create mindfulness moments. Both are good for the mental health and well being, at crisis time especially.
At the moment we are using old school desk board as a base to make the puzzle. It is easy to carry from a room, floor or table to another. PuzzleMat is more practical if you can't let the big puzzle hang around all the time or don't have much room to have it around. I have made
PuzzleMat-tutorial so you can easily make your own. It is low budget and beginner level to do.
Puzzles has been our family hobby for a long time. I have loved puzzles since I was a tiny toddler. I did it at my teens too. My kids have inherit that love into puzzles. When the oldest started the high school it was time to leave the puzzles behind and make them only at summer holidays.
Since
MrW moved out we have not made any in this house. Last Christmas SantaClaus brought this puzzle for me and YoungLady. We did this on skiing holiday on the week 10 in March. YoungLady fell in love with puzzles again and we had so much fun when doing it.
That's why we investigated the house and see what MrW left behind. We found few puzzles and decided to do also this on sking holiday. This is very old and I remember how extraordinary it was with the fluorescent effect. If i remember it right, this was bought from Lidl. Lidl was one of the shops that literally brought the miracles of the big world to our grocery shop selections! They still say Finns love to do scene and "familiar building" puzzles. I claim it is because Finnish shops never sell anything but those!!! Sometimes it is very hard to find anything else but something from scene or architecture collection.
By Easter we did this. This one is also very old and one of the rare different ones we managed to find. I usually hunted these special puzzles for the whole year to get one for Christmas!
After the wolf and Easter we decided to start this one. Also it is old and special for us. This is one of the challenging ones I show you here at this blog post.
My intention is to be educative -as usual- for those who are not experienced with puzzles yet. Compare the pics above. This is a very difficult but also that's why it is very time consuming (if you need such puzzle). Look at the snow at front. That's challenging. Look at the sky. That's extremely difficult. So, when you pick up a puzzle, if you need challenging or difficult one this type is a good choice. It has easy parts but also very difficult ones. BUT you need to have good nerves and patience with this one. We, I and YoungLady, did the sky for days and at some point even considered to have a hammer to force the pieces to fit!
