I'm always trying to find ways to distract me from work and to relax better during my free time. So when my mother recently announced that she'd found solving jigsaw puzzles to be very much relaxing for her, I decided to give it a try myself. It has been a while since I did this¹⁾ but I surely remember of it being a quite fun and mind capturing pastime, so why not, right?

Given that demod and me have a very small flat and therefore no place to store a partially solved jigsaw, I first got myself a case for solving and storing away jigsaw puzzles²⁾, and then decided on something special for my first try:

I ordered a custom 1000 tiles puzzle of the “Secret of Monkey Island” cover, based on those poster-ready files I already blogged about some time ago. Printing and delivery took less time than expected³⁾ and so I could get to work last weekend. Due to a very busy week and unexpected difficulties with the motive⁴⁾, it took me until yesterday to finish it. But now: Tadaa!

Next up: Either a Sheepworld puzzle I got as a birthday present some time ago⁵⁾, or some very cheesy but calming motive I found while shopping for the puzzle case⁶⁾. And – of course – “LeChuck's Revenge” and “The Curse of Monkey Island” sometime in the future

It seems to work btw – I didn't think about work at all while working on the puzzle.