January 31, 2009
Ode to an Idiot
When carrying dollar store puzzles, which you've carefully assembled and spray painted white (with blue and green accents, to make reassembly after decorating easier), consider carrying them one at a time. And calling someone to help with the basement door, should you try to carry all 8 at once on large flattened boxes that only awkwardly fit up the stairs and are sliding against each other as you try to lift them over the step ladder hanging on the wall and ... whoa ... NO!!!
Poop.
Posted by Kim at January 31, 2009 3:33 PMwhoa ... NO!!!
Posted by: Moogie at January 31, 2009 5:34 PMum.... welll.... I'm glad they aren't all white?
sigh. I remember how hard they were to assemble even WITH the pictures on them. I hope you can salvage one or two of them ;o/
Posted by: kelly at January 31, 2009 5:46 PMActually, it wasn't as bad as I originally thought.
Of the 8 puzzles I'd done half (3 big, one small) with blue and green and some wide sweeping stencils like the spiral seen.
The three all white big ones, thankfully, didn't crash. One big green/blue/white one is pretty completely undone, but the other suffered only minor damage (still looking for 2 pieces, mixed in with the completely undone ones) and the two little ones were only 48 pc. and not too hard to reassemble, even the all white one.
So at this point I only have one to totally reassemble, and two more pieces to put in another puzzle. And, if I remember correctly, it was the endless trees that were hard, because many of the pieces *fit* but didn't *match* -- which might mean I can put those pieces in a number of places ... making reassembly much easier, actually.
I hope. :-)
Posted by: Kim (the idiot) at January 31, 2009 5:56 PMAs long as it was only the puzzles that crashed, it's all good. Puzzles are much easier to piece back together than moms are!
Posted by: Theresa at February 1, 2009 8:21 AMAwww! Sorry about that. Glad you were able to salvage a lot of it.
Posted by: Karen W at February 8, 2009 11:12 PMOh no! What a major bummer. I hope it didn't take too long to put it all back together.
I'm backkkkk! lol Using my new handy dandy lap top computer. It feels like I am using someone else's computer. I'm sure I will get used to it, though. :)
Have a wonderful Monday morning! Hugs, Robin
Posted by: Robin at February 9, 2009 12:39 AM
