Continuing the passion

Just reviewed my first posting and apologize for the misspellings.  I promise to be more accurate in my proofreading before hitting publish in the future.

It felt good to write though and to express some of the thoughts and feelings I have about jigsaw puzzles.  They are a huge part of life now and with any luck they will play an even bigger role in the years ahead.  I hope that my future will be filled with building, framing, and selling puzzles to the point where it is my whole life and not just the time I put in after doing my 40 hour work week.  I want to make this passion more that just a "hobby".  I want to wake up in the mornings and know that I'm either building a puzzle today or working on framing one or putting some of my framed works on display.  To me it would be awesome to set up a booth at a festival somewhere, displaying my work while working on building a puzzle at a portable work table.  There are so many types and quality of puzzles that completing a 1000 piece puzzle in one summer day is totally possible.  It would also be cool to do the same thing at a coffee shop.  It is a dream and goal just like beginning a blog was.

Currently I am also working on a video showing a number of my framed and unframed puzzles on display.  I have essentially made my two bedroom apartment into a gallery of jigsaw puzzles.  My main room is approximately 18' by 14'.  The wall in front of me holds most of the framed ones.  In the corner it connects with the long wall which is basically all glass; sliding glass doors opening to a small balcony and then one large window that ends at the other corner.  The wall that continues from that corner is covered with a four foot by twelve foot long mirror that fills the entire wall.  The fourth wall is the back edge of the kitchen and is mostly kitchen counter ending at the hallway leading to the bedrooms.

On the wall in front of me I have hung nine framed jigsaw puzzles.  In the corner on an easel behind a shelving unit is a tenth framed one.  On the glass wall I have three framed plexiglass ones that hang in the windows. These plexiglass frames are bordered in translucent amber or blue and each contain two jigsaw puzzles sandwiched back to back - so one faces the living room and the other shows on the balcony.

Above are the ones facing the living room.  Below are the puzzles facing the balcony.

These are the ones framed in plexiglass.  This one directly above is  a 500 piece Galison Art puzzle of a Tiffany Stainglass.  The other side is the same puzzle - I just did two instead of one.  The whale is a 1000 pieces and backed by the 1000 piece leaping dolphins.  The other amber plexiglass one is two Lynn Lupetti 750 piece puzzles by Ceaco back to back.  One is called "The Voyage of Light" and the other "The Innocent Architect".  She one of my favorite children fantasy artist and I love doing puzzles of her work. 

I have to end this post now because I have to get ready for work.  Maybe someday I can say I have to go build a puzzle.  As always, "Enjoy!"