52 Card Project 2022: Week 8: Puzzle
Feb. 23rd, 2022 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrI'm feeling better, and I plan to go back to work on Monday.
My mom and my brother Chet are big puzzle fans and always have one going, and we often pull them out during family get-togethers. Chet, in particular, who worked for years in a high-pressure New York law office, found working on puzzles to be calming and meditative when he needed to relax. I've never made a habit of working on puzzles myself, simply because if I have free time, I always preferred to have my nose in a book.
But this week, to keep myself away from screens and off the internet, I've been working on a 1000 piece puzzle while listening to audiobooks. It keeps me from being restless and picking up my phone when I'm listening to the narration. (Right now I'm listening to The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. Yeah, yeah, I know Mackenzi Lee has become disappointingly problematic, which is one reason I took it out of the library rather than buying it. I must say, Christian Coulson (the young Tom Riddle in the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) is doing a terrific job with the narration.)
This collage holds the record for the fastest card I've ever made (for something that wasn't just one simple image), about thirty seconds flat. I simply took a photo and then, to make it a little more visually interesting, I ran the image through a website that turns photos into puzzle pieces. I like the effect.
Puzzle
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My mom and my brother Chet are big puzzle fans and always have one going, and we often pull them out during family get-togethers. Chet, in particular, who worked for years in a high-pressure New York law office, found working on puzzles to be calming and meditative when he needed to relax. I've never made a habit of working on puzzles myself, simply because if I have free time, I always preferred to have my nose in a book.
But this week, to keep myself away from screens and off the internet, I've been working on a 1000 piece puzzle while listening to audiobooks. It keeps me from being restless and picking up my phone when I'm listening to the narration. (Right now I'm listening to The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. Yeah, yeah, I know Mackenzi Lee has become disappointingly problematic, which is one reason I took it out of the library rather than buying it. I must say, Christian Coulson (the young Tom Riddle in the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) is doing a terrific job with the narration.)
This collage holds the record for the fastest card I've ever made (for something that wasn't just one simple image), about thirty seconds flat. I simply took a photo and then, to make it a little more visually interesting, I ran the image through a website that turns photos into puzzle pieces. I like the effect.
Click here to see the 2022 52 Card Project gallery.
Click here to see the 2021 gallery.
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Date: 2022-02-23 10:32 pm (UTC)SO glad to hear that you are feeling better. When you said you had to take time off from work to recover I was worried.
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Date: 2022-02-24 12:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-02-24 05:27 pm (UTC)I've only read the first of Mackenzie Lee's books and it ... didn't quite gel for me? I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it. On the other hand, I admit I'm kind of curious to see how the saga turns out. What's been problematic about the author? (Somehow I missed that.)
Glad you're on the mend!
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Date: 2022-02-24 10:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-02-25 12:54 am (UTC)