I’ve spent the Holidays in Finland with my books, friends and puzzles. I bought this one maybe five years ago and now did it again, it was just 1500 pieces and took way longer than I thought it would. People often ask me how long time my puzzles take. It’s impossible to give an answer, as it depends on the number of pieces, the shape of the pieces and the picture itself. Very symmetrical pictures with few colors are more difficult than ones with a lot of color and detail.
I’ve been trying to avoid buying new puzzles, as I have many and at the moment don’t have a place to keep them in, but it’s also nice to get back to the old ones.
I visited Finland for the holidays and took the advantage of my old room at my parents’ being empty. Most of my puzzles are at my dad’s storage room in Helsinki and I was too lazy to go there and get some more interesting ones, so I did this colorful one once again (it was probably the third time).
I wanted to make more time-lapse videos of my puzzles since here in Sweden I haven’t been able to do so. I left my Canon EOS 6D here since I had my 550D at my parents and that’s good enough for making simple videos. However, when I started I realized I had forgotten the quick release plate of my tripod on my 6D. I had brought my tripod to Finland just for this purpose and now I’d have to buy a new quick release plate, which I didn’t really need. They also cost like 20 € in Finland, which is 10 times more than it costs on Ebay. The same day my mom told me she had won some competition and had gotten a tripod and a bunch of other phone accessories and asked if I wanted to have them. I gladly accepted her offer! The tripod was designed for smartphones, it was made of plastic and was really light, so I wouldn’t put my 6D on that, but for the 550D it was fine.
The film turned out pretty well, though it has a different angle than the other films I have done, since the tripod was about 40 cm tall I couldn’t shoot from above as I normally would do. Check it out from below!
Before heading home I visited a really cool store here in Umeå that sells board games and jigsaw puzzles. To be honest I have never seen such a selection of puzzles anywhere else! I’ve lived abroad and traveled a lot and mostly in cities that are way bigger than Umeå, but always bought most of my puzzles from www.puzzle-portal.com because of lack of variety in retail stores. But now I know where to go when I feel like puzzling. Though my roommate just returned from his one-month trip and I won’t be able to spread my puzzles allover the living room anymore…
I buy my puzzles based on the number of pieces, as well the design. 1000 pieces is usually not enough. I prefer puzzles that have between 1500 and 4000 pieces, since it won’t be over in four hours, but it won’t take several months either. Unfortunately 1000 pieces is the most common number.I bought a 3000-pieces Star Wars puzzle from the store here, the dark parts were a bit too hard, or at least in the light we have here. But otherwise it was perfect! Puzzles are too much of fun to be shared with Finns only, so I wrote this one in English.
It’s my birthday today! I usually celebrate with my few closest friends but this year I was too lazy (or too old). However I always need a birthday cake, this year I put flamingos on it. The flowers I got from my dear roommate.
The “party” was yesterday, I’ll be working tomorrow morning so right now I’m at my parents’ working on another jigsawpuzzle timelapse. 6000 pieces, I’m now done with the easy parts so from now on the process is sloooow. But I’ll get there. ❤️
I’ve always had a thing on jigsaw puzzles. Ever since I was child I could spent hours sitting on the floor until the puzzle was finished. In general I like puzzles from 2000 pieces up, this one had 1000 pieces but I chose it because I wanted to try something…
I recently came up with an idea to combine my favorite hobbies, photography and puzzles. I’ve always taken pictures of my puzzles before putting them back into their boxes but now I wanted to try something different. I had never made timelapse videos before, but the idea of beign able to see the whole process from the beginning was fascinating.
I tried it out by making a three second clip when I was flipping the pieces and was surprised how easy it was. With the actual puzzle it was difficult to estimate how long it would take to finish, sometimes it takes four hours, sometimes more than ten. I shot one frame per minute in order to keep the film fairly short. It turned out pretty well for my first one but I noticed things I will have to take into account in the future so I also learned a lot from my little experiment.
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