Mounting day!

Today its time to mount the rest of the puzzles we have completed and have not mounted yet!

All laid on a 4x8 sheet of foam board. From top left clockwise; Pencils (upside down because it fell off the first mounting and needs to be redone and its a bit sticky), Effervesently Yours, The Dreaming Tree, Venice, Donuts, Vegas, Maui Moon, Underwater Playground, Pansies and Puppies

Rizzi all boxed up and ready to be re-assembled

We laid each section upside down and the reassembled. The puzzle interlocks so well, you can just pick up the puzzle by the corner and turn it over as you need to.

Here we finally have Rizzi glued to the foam board and cut to size

After 1000 pieces or so, the weight of the puzzle is too much for the technique of using the string from two screws in dry wall anchors (they anchors pull out of the foam). So here we use the interlocking technique using drywall channel mount the channel so the flat part is facing down on the puzzle. Use a lot of drywall anchors (here we used 10) to spread the load.

Take the drywall corner and mount it to the wall where you want he puzzle with the flat end facing up and then bend it up to make the V as shown. The matching V on the back of the puzzle will sit in here and give you a rock solid mount!

Back of the puzzle showing the dry wall corner bent down and ready to hang!

M enjoying our new showpiece!

The puzzle wall! We are running out of space! We still need to paint a lot of edges, but finally have all the puzzles mounted!

Puzzle Craziness

Well, we have completed two puzzle, found 4 more at the thrift store, decide to start on the 18,000 pcs 4 Historical World Maps by Ravensburger and one a bid from ebay Germany on the 9000 piece Tower of Babel  since the last post! It's getting crazy around here!

It took me about 5 hours to sort the first bag of world maps today. I think the pervious owner started on this hardest one! This puzzle is going to be extremely hard.

Power outage? No reason to stop puzzling! Thats why we have headlamps! M puzzling Maui Moon in the dark!

Getting started on 4 World Maps. This might be missing pieces. We bought it used off of craigslist and this section was opened. I feel confident I can make a missing piece if need be. It took about 5 hours to sort this thing.

M and Tessa working on a puzzle.

Completed:

Maui Moon Bay - 500pc, Master Pieces
Purchased at K-Mart in Plymouth, MI  on 3/26/2010 for $8.00

Started: 5/8/2013
Finished: 5/10/2013
Assembled by: Tom, Mercedes and Tessa

Aimee Stewart: The Dreaming Tree - 750pc, Mega Puzzles Reflections
K-Mart in Plymouth, MI 3/26/2013 $8.00

Started: 5/9/2013
Completed: 5/10/2013
Assembled By: Tom, Mercedes and Tessa

Acquired:

John O'Brian: Gallerie de Montmarte - 1500pc,  Jumbo
Purchased from Human Society St. Thomas for $2.00 on 5/11/2013

M.C. Esher: Hand with Reflecting - 1000pc, Pomegranate Art Piece Puzzle
Purchased from Human Society St. Thomas for $2.00 on 5/11/2013

Giovanni Paolo Pannini: Picture Gallery with View of Modern Rome - 1000pc, Pomegranate Art Piece Puzzle
Purchased from Human Society St. Thomas for $2.00 on 5/11/2013

Colorful Candies - 1000pc, Springbok
Purchased from Human Society St. Thomas for $2.00 on 5/11/2013