Puzzles in the Time of COVID 1
These are 9 examples from the ~70 photographed puzzles that I have done and collected in my chronologically ordered notebook: Puzzles in the Time of COVID. I included one picture of the full album. This was my version of a COVID diary.
I had always enjoyed doing puzzles but now it felt like a wonderful challenge and great time-consumer in this shutdown time of Covid. The sense of accomplishment is strongly felt when you finish a puzzle--and this is something that was important to me, to feel that I had accomplished something during this time.
Early on, I began documenting our puzzle completions. In a group text to all our family, I would share a photo of the completed puzzle. I realized that I wanted to have a physical reminder of my work so I began printing out the photo I had taken in a letter-size format and collected them all in a loose-leaf notebook. Fortunately my smart phone recorded the date I took my photos so I was able to list the titles of the puzzles and the date completed. Sometimes I would time myself to see how quickly I could sort, do the borders, and complete the puzzle. But I realized that the speed wasn't as important as the sharing, and my husband and I shared our time doing the puzzles.
