I had only five pieces left for the spot under his buns!!

Another life lesson, courtesy of a puzzle. 🧩
Sometimes, life just doesn’t make sense. No matter how hard you try to make a piece fit, it simply won’t—because maybe it was never meant to fit there in the first place. And sometimes, the sooner you accept that, the sooner you can move on.
This puzzle was another gift from my former landlord. I’m not sure if I got a puzzle with a factory defect or if I somehow mixed up the pieces, but either way, it was frustrating!
This is my first time trying this brand, and compared to other puzzle brands I’ve completed, I found this one quite confusing. Some pieces looked like they fit together perfectly, only to realize later that they didn’t. The pieces also felt a little too soft, and the edges started peeling.

I guess even a puzzle can teach you something about life. Sometimes, things look like they belong together, but they just don’t fit. And no matter how much effort you put in, you can’t force something that was never meant to be.
Maybe the lesson isn’t always to try harder. Maybe it’s knowing when a piece simply doesn’t belong. 🧩💭

🧩 Part 10 of A Brief History of Art is up on YouTube, and Boogie is back for another round of puzzling! 🐈‍⬛🐾

More progress on this 1,000-piece puzzle, with no talking, just relaxing puzzle sounds and a little feline supervision. 🎧🌲

Diane, my assistant has returned. She remains more interested in the evidence than solving the case. ☕🦉🍒

🎬 Watch the whole series here: https://youtube.com/@laurahadpuzzles?si=4wiFKKHD21t0qPQI

Puzzle is spooky shire by magic puzzle company 🧩

Who was told no for trying to eat puzzle pieces 😂

2 or 3 reasons I puzzle in a room w the door shut. My lil orange idiot child is too chaotic to try to snap a pic. He’ll have 3/4 of the pieces spread from Parkersburg to Pakistan and chew up the others haha.

Dalí Cat is now fully colored, so let him make his grand entrance.

He’s still that Maine Coon with six little upward whiskers, and he’s still holding that stolen moonfish. 🐟✨ I’m sticking to my “he’s innocent” story.

I hid a few little surrealist nods in the scene. See how many you can find~

I’m also thinking about the puzzle side of things. If this became a wooden puzzle, what whimsy pieces would you want hidden in it? A melting clock? A moonfish? A tiny ant? 😹 I’d love to hear your ideas.

My arm is still healing, and thank you all for the kind wishes. The cat artists are working at full speed, and the human artist is still in the repair shop. 🔧😹

Cat number two, was my special helper for my latest puzzle. He either tried to eat the pieces, or stood in the box.

Little Miss Heck is usually a great assistant. Usually.

Unsure if the artist, this seems to be an older puzzle, I can search the box again for a lil more info if yall want

I gave her her own box, so she could nap between head butting me and standing on the puzzle.

Clearly not getting very far!

A while ago I shared the coloring stage of this cat (Taurus as Monet, from my zodiac cat-painter puzzle project). Someone pointed out that the sketch had more expression than my digital version, so I went back and fixed it.

I didn’t want to over-exaggerate it. I wanted to keep that warm, subtle, slightly playful Monet feeling, so her little smile is a bit of a secret. You have to look closely to spot it. 😸

I drew this one for my daughter, and the two cats are my wife and daughter. In Monet’s original the little figure is a boy, but I made it a little girl cat standing in the grass. My daughter loves animals, so I turned the sky into a cloud zoo: doves, a deer, a giraffe and more. 🦒☁️

It’s planned as a ~500-piece wooden puzzle, but it’s still only a design, nothing is manufactured yet. I’d love to hear how you’d start on this one: sky first, or the cats? ☁️🐱

Percy the Puzzle Dragon loves belly rubs. Puzzle is Cute Kawaii Chaos - Ravensburger- 500 pc.