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Carter-Johnson · 10-23-2009, 04:11 PM

I suppose it had to happen...

I usually finish about 3 full-size puzzles each month. When I'm done with one, I take a couple day's break and cut Christmas card puzzles or some one-cent stamp puzzles.

I like to keep about a hundred stamp puzzles on hand and I was a little low, so the other day when I had finished a big one, I took a couple of days and cut 21 stamps. I didn't put them together as I cut them (do you see where this is going?) but rather set them in little piles on a white board.

When I was done, I put six together, turned suddenly, bumped the board, and ended up with a big pile of 150 tiny pieces cut individually to ten shapes all mixed up on the floor. My wife saw what I had done and giggled silently.

So I started yesterday and spent four hours getting four sets of two pieces together for all 15 puzzles. I have a ways to go cause I know I must have made a couple of mistakes. I forgot to take a picture at the beginning, but here's where I am now.

In showing you this, I am humbling myself before you, because I know you've never made such a feeble-minded mistake.....have you?

Carter

Gill · 10-23-2009, 04:23 PM

<Snigger>

Never done anything like that myself, Carter. Of course not. Definitely not.

Well, not that I'd ever admit.

Jim McDonald · 10-23-2009, 04:35 PM

Remember the old game show "Concentration"? That's where Carter finds himself now.
Best of luck friend. As Red Green says, "We're pullin' for ya"

scrollpup · 10-23-2009, 05:05 PM

I tried not to smile at your misfortune Carter, honest!! I'm amazed your sorting them out and putting them back together!I'm afraid I would have have swept them up and started over on new ones. Good luck

Jerry

wood-n-things · 10-23-2009, 05:12 PM

Never been there and done that..NOPE..Have PHUN is about all I can think of...

Hmm seems to me the MRS. enjoys putting together puzzles...

Janette · 10-23-2009, 05:30 PM

Well that IS the point of jigsaw puzzles isn't it !)

I've done it with 200+piece intarsia projects so I feel your pain

lilsparky · 10-23-2009, 06:08 PM

Ok, we'll all be over in a little while to help. What's for supper?

jim_mex · 10-23-2009, 07:20 PM

Every done anything like that? Of course not! - say's he lying through his teeth
Good luck Carter and thanks for having the courage to post your 'faux pas'

Big_red_S · 10-23-2009, 07:34 PM

Good luck Carter, I don't envy you. I was having trouble putting togther that 1 stamp puzzle you sent me

Scrolling Days · 10-23-2009, 08:10 PM

PHUN !!

10-23-2009, 04:11 PM	#1
Carter-Johnson Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 740	Sympathy....please? I suppose it had to happen... I usually finish about 3 full-size puzzles each month. When I'm done with one, I take a couple day's break and cut Christmas card puzzles or some one-cent stamp puzzles. I like to keep about a hundred stamp puzzles on hand and I was a little low, so the other day when I had finished a big one, I took a couple of days and cut 21 stamps. I didn't put them together as I cut them (do you see where this is going?) but rather set them in little piles on a white board. When I was done, I put six together, turned suddenly, bumped the board, and ended up with a big pile of 150 tiny pieces cut individually to ten shapes all mixed up on the floor. My wife saw what I had done and giggled silently. So I started yesterday and spent four hours getting four sets of two pieces together for all 15 puzzles. I have a ways to go cause I know I must have made a couple of mistakes. I forgot to take a picture at the beginning, but here's where I am now. In showing you this, I am humbling myself before you, because I know you've never made such a feeble-minded mistake.....have you? Carter

10-23-2009, 04:23 PM	#2
Gill Fallen Angel Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2,625	<Snigger> Never done anything like that myself, Carter. Of course not. Definitely not. Well, not that I'd ever admit. __________________ There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is readily adopted. (Schopenhauer, Die Kunst Recht zu Behalten)

10-23-2009, 04:35 PM	#3
Jim McDonald Workin' for the Weekend Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: On the Other Side of the Monitor Posts: 946 Blog Entries: 6	Remember the old game show "Concentration"? That's where Carter finds himself now. Best of luck friend. As Red Green says, "We're pullin' for ya" __________________ Jim Exuberance can be corrected; dullness is incurable. --E. Deters "Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

10-23-2009, 05:05 PM	#4
scrollpup Avatar by Casey Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Hot Springs,Arkansas Posts: 1,732	I tried not to smile at your misfortune Carter, honest!! I'm amazed your sorting them out and putting them back together!I'm afraid I would have have swept them up and started over on new ones. Good luck Jerry __________________ Two wrongs don't make a right....they just even the score...

10-23-2009, 05:12 PM	#5
wood-n-things Behave Yourself..I can't. Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Right here ---silly Posts: 4,478 Blog Entries: 1	Never been there and done that..NOPE..Have PHUN is about all I can think of... Hmm seems to me the MRS. enjoys putting together puzzles... __________________ The Mike One of them anyway. Don't be so open-minded. Your brains will fall out! Last edited by wood-n-things; 10-23-2009 at 07:22 PM.

10-23-2009, 05:30 PM	#6
Janette Intarsia Moderator Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Eugene, Oregon Posts: 2,110 Blog Entries: 4	Well that IS the point of jigsaw puzzles isn't it !) I've done it with 200+piece intarsia projects so I feel your pain __________________ Janette www.square-designs.com

10-23-2009, 06:08 PM	#7
lilsparky Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 24	Ok, we'll all be over in a little while to help. What's for supper?

10-23-2009, 07:20 PM	#8
jim_mex 'Senior' member - no way! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Pachuca, Mexico Posts: 1,788	Every done anything like that? Of course not! - say's he lying through his teeth Good luck Carter and thanks for having the courage to post your 'faux pas' __________________ Jim in Mexico “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein

10-23-2009, 07:34 PM	#9
Big_red_S Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 722	Good luck Carter, I don't envy you. I was having trouble putting togther that 1 stamp puzzle you sent me __________________ Living well is the best revenge

10-23-2009, 08:10 PM	#10
Scrolling Days Jigsaw Puzzle Maker Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Along the Lower Niagara River Posts: 1,214 Blog Entries: 5	PHUN !! __________________ Shawn Ferguson Come visit at The Ferguson Puzzle Company !

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