I ♥ jigsaw puzzles, signed, fat cat
Jiggy Jr. and I had a marvelous little vacation in Santa Cruz last week (it's not Rome, it's not India, it's not Bali, but we take our vacation pleasures where we can). When we travel we love to visit good bookstores. I love jigsaw puzzles and my family tolerates them but books are our holy grail. Jiggy Jr., DataDad and I read voraciously and we worship well-stocked, eclectic, non-chain bookstores (all hail Powells; a moment of silence for Cody's). In this vein, Jiggy Jr. and I spent hours at Bookshop Santa Cruz—truly one of the best West coast independent bookstores.
After luxuriating for a few hours in my favorite sections (brand-new edgy novels by unknown authors! a huge section on healthy cooking! more books than can be consumed in a life time on mindful living and positive mental outlooks!) I turned a corner and lo-and-behold, there sat before me a large table chockful of jigsaw puzzles! There were jigsaw puzzles on the bottom shelf and jigsaw puzzles on the table top. I parked myself there and studied puzzle after puzzle (could not contain myself: I bought five, after a full hour of serious contemplation—see fat cat with puzzles, above).
The neat news is my discovery of a new jigsaw puzzle designer/manufacturer: new for me, anyway: Pomegranate Artpiece. Their puzzles are eye-candy: beautiful images, not tacky—and, it turns out, made on unusually hearty cardboard stock which makes it fun to work with. I'm starting with a Charley Harper image, "The Rocky Mountains," which I'll post upon completion.
In fully interlocking solidarity,
Jigsaw maniac
Loose lips sink ships—keep busy with jigsaw puzzles ✌
Heaven.
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