Okay jigsaw puzzle fans, here are three new ones. I was thinking the other day about the jigsaws made from my work. Over the years, there have been about fourteen images made into puzzles.
When I first had them published, I actually put a couple of them together. It took me about two hours or so. I found it interesting that, having painted them, I knew the moment I looked at the piece, by color or texture, just where they went. So, after the excitement of them wore off I got bored with it.
But here is a lovely story about them. One I did was a Christmas scene. A few years ago, I was contacted online by a woman who had purchased it, years before. She had a family tradition of putting it together with her daughter every holiday season. But the previous Christmas, she’d found that a piece had gone missing. Could I possible tell her where she could purchase another.
Well, they had been out of print for some time. But I crawled up in the attic and dug through my old boxes because, packrat that I am, I knew I had many of them stored away. And yes, there was a spare of that puzzle. I sent it off to her and she was quite happy. I was pretty happy too knowing that I had become part of a holiday tradition for them. Truth be told, it made me feel quite old too.
So, here are three more. I am not sure where else they are available but I found this site has them if anyone is interested. Also, I’ve found that the old ones come up pretty regularly on EBay.
