Puzzling No More | Clare Henney

If you have been reading my blog(s) for a while now, you’d remember me posting an entry about wanting to finish a 1000-piece puzzle.  It’s one of my goals for the year because it’s something that I had enjoyed doing with my father, who passed away last year. I bought a puzzle last February and for about a week or so I worked on it every night.  I stopped working on it when things got hectic for me at work and because of all sorts of responsibilities I had to take care of.  Last month I started working on it again one afternoon when we didn’t have any electricity at home.

A couple of weeks ago I decided to finish it and spent an entire day putting it together and pasting it onto an illustration board to make sure that I don’t lose a piece.  I’m really happy that I got to finish it and that I did it in such a short period of time (the actual work and not including the time when I didn’t work on it of course).  I remember a friend of mine saying that this whole puzzle-work thing can help me sharpen my mind and make me put more attention into detail.  I think that’s true because by the time I was close to finishing it was faster for me to work because the details just became easier for me to use as basis to put the whole thing together.

So here it is, my masterpiece (OK, technically it’s Boticceli’s), The Birth of Venus.  I pasted it on a bit crooked on the board but I think we can fix that when we frame it — which brings me to the question: does anyone know where and how I can have this framed?