Home and Garden Show in Germany



Took a long detour in Germany.  According to the box, circa 2000, this is

"Home and Flower Garden, Owen, Germany"

1,000 pieces

 

(anywhere near you, Lia?)

My husband actually did a large part of the flowers in the lower right hand corner.  I was so tired one night trying to puzzle, I actually dozed off sitting up and then did one of those falling jumps.  Freaked me out.  My husband came in about then and saw how exhausted I was and asked if he could work on the puzzle.  HA!  Of course!  Get this thing out of here!  I need to move on.  He worked on it until 2am. He is not a night owl, so this surprised me.  But about 2, I woke up and told him to go to bed.  I don't sleep well with lights on.  He had only about 30-40 of the blackish pieces left of the evergreens on the right.  I whipped those off today very quickly.  Now to decide my next victim.

Some of the Nation's Greatest Leaders!

This was a very unique puzzle.  I got it from a friend who knew how much I loved puzzles.  She is very generous and giving with an amazing heart!  She owns a Christian bookstore with a resale shop in the upstairs.  She and her husband, with the use of this store, have given so much to community in the way of clothes, toys, household goods and food to families in need.  She is a very good friend of mine. 

Anyway, she thought I would enjoy this 3D puzzle.  Honestly, I thought it very intriguing but after putting it together, I realized I didn't really care for it.  LegoWarrior helped me put it together.  It was basically built in layers with each layer consisting of two pieces each.  Each piece had a triangular hole which slid over posts that connected to the base.  I didn't think of taking pictures of the process.  That seemed impossible and too time consuming to figure out.  Luckily for us there was a cheat sheet that showed which pieces went together and which layer they were.  Each piece had a number on it.  So technically it was a 180+ piece puzzle.  We did use the cheat sheet.

Here it is:

These were the great men of our nation.  It's too bad that there haven't been good enough men to be remembered in such a way as this since these guys.  I could write a lot more on great leaders, but I'll leave that for another blog.

 



Abraham Lincoln

 

George Washington

 

Thomas Jefferson

Theodore Roosevelt

 

And this great little man, my oldest, Lego Warrior.  He loves helping me put together my puzzles.