try the small easy ones.

You need a pretty large table to work a 3000 piece puzzle!

I find the 1000 piece ones to be the best manageable size.

My sister did a 5000 piece one once.
It took her a long time!

unless the pieces are itty bitty! 5k pieces is just way too many.

The pieces were fairly small, yet it still took her very large dining room table with all 4 extensions in it. (She can seat 14 at that table)

sounds intense.

Way more than I would have taken on.
Nope, 1K pieces is just fine for me!

I'll take 500 pieces?

That's probably more manageable in a smaller space.
I may go for 750 next time and see how that works.

Right now I'm probably about 1/3 done.

I don't like doing 1k puzzles by myself really. I've done them with my mom in the past, but now hers are like...a blue sky over a blue lake with no clouds or other objects in the pictures.

*flops in*

This one is a bunch of covers all overlapped of Saturday Evening Post.
Lots and lots of colors...it's fun to do.

That sounds neat.

The felt rollup thingie isn't working as well as I had hoped.
The puzzle gets kind of messed up, and takes awhile to get it all straightened out.

Next puzzle I'll just use the cutting mat.

Or if you have a table with a table cloth do what my mom does do the puzzle under the table cloth then just cover it when you are done. It's worked for us.

That would be a good idea, but we don't use a tablecloth unfortunately...

hey. what's up people? still talking about puzzles?

Yup. We get stuck in a rut....

lol...
Hubby said that we may have to move soon.
Our property taxes have been going up so much, pretty soon it will be cheaper to just live in an apartment.

my parents need a bigger house. we have too much stuff.

We need a bigger apartment....

The problem would be trying to downsize from this large house to a smaller apartment...

you got too much stuff too, jean?

Not only do we have a lot of stuff in the house, but we're also renting a storage facility bin to store even MORE stuff!

yep, that's a lot of stuff. I'm going to end up like that.

A lot of what's in the storage bin are from some of our past hobbies.
I have a huge rock saw in there, and a grinder. I need to get rid of them somehow cuz I can't see myself ever using them again.

Hubby has a bunch of film developing and enlarging equipment.
lol...nobody uses THAT stuff anymore!

ebay.

hey, that stuff is fun!