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Puzzle Pieces

I remember going to rummage sales specifically looking for old puzzles to buy and put together. I got so obsessed with puzzles, I bought a 6000 piece puzzle, put it together, and glued it for decoration. Overtime I accumulated several puzzles and began not knowing what to do with them. I put my craft mind to work. I want to share with you a few ideas I found to use with my puzzle pieces.


The first project I tried is a simple wreath: What is nice about this project is you can use any puzzle doesn't have to match with a color scheme.
Start with putting the pieces into a circle
For the next layer you can start adding glue to 
the bottom of the colored side of piece and glue



Just go all around the wreath placing each
piece on top of the other pieces. I made three
layers.







      Next I made a Christmas Tree ornament.                Just place the pieces in the shape of the tree and then add pieces on top with glue.
                   

Next I tried a snowman ornament:



first I made three different sized circles and glued them on top of each other.
Next I painted the body white, I used sticks for the arms, and the hat I actually used three legos from our toy box. One is a four peg, three peg, and one is a two peg. Then next picture shows I added eyes and a nose. Again used legos for both.


Also thought I would make a Halloween decoration for the upcoming Holiday. Using the same method as above, I made a BOO sign.




 Here was another project I tried. Just used an old picture frame and scrapbook paper as the background. The letter was again glued together and painted to match the background.

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