The Missing Piece

I’ve been hooked on jigsaw puzzles for the last couple of weeks, and I’ve had it with them for a bit, but there is a story I want to tell. The sewing studio puzzle above, was given to me by Julie as a Christmas present. I told her what I told Cherie: “Thank you so very LITTLE!!!”

Haha. But I did it.

Here’s the puzzle Cherie sent me. I did that one too, but if you look closely…

That’s pretty aggravating. I looked all over the living room for that little piece, and couldn’t find it. While I work on the puzzles, I lean over them, and sometimes the pieces get caught up in the threads of my sweater. (That’s my story and I’m sticking with it. It also happens to be the truth.)

The one place I didn’t look was in the Roomba’s vacuum bag. You see, after a cleaning job my Roomba goes back to home base and empties itself automatically into a vacuum bag that I empty about once a month.

So after I got other stuff done, I took the bag out, and cut into it with a pair of scissors and sorted through the dust and debris. (Hey, you all know me, why are you surprised?)

Guess what I found?

Now, if truth be told, I forgot to check if I had a vacuum bag to replace the one I cut up, so my Roomba got a little vacation while I waited for the new ones to arrive. In the meantime I got started on another puzzle from Julie.

But again, dammit…

Can you spell AGGRAVATED??? Again, I looked everywhere, but nope. I continued with the puzzle, knowing that the damn piece was in the house SOMEWHERE.

In the meantime, the new bags came for the Roomba and I restarted the cleaning jobs.

I got home from work the other day and something caught my eye…

Can you see it? Do you need to get closer?

YUP!

It’s the missing piece.

Was I a happy camper to put that sucker where it belonged.

So here is the finished puzzle, and I’ve decided this is it for a while. I’m going to put the puzzle board under the couch and do something else. Actually, I have to do some tidying in the studio and then I’ll be in there sewing. 

One other note: I’ve been posting on the blog using my iPad instead of my laptop. It has been EXTREMELY frustrating, so I haven’t posted as often as I used to, but I think I finally figured it out. I haven’t completely moved everything over from the laptop to the iPad, but I’m hoping to get that done in the next few days. One other thing on my to-do list.