Why I don't solve some puzzles 

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I was not ready for Karen calling out my TBR pile, yarn stash, and puzzle stacks at the beginning, she didn’t mention the diamond paintings or cross stitch thread hoard but I can feel them staring at me all the same 😂

In the board game world, it’s highly contentious whether to call it the “shelf of opportunity” or the “shelf of shame”. We all have one 😂

For me, it's not having a stack of books or puzzles, its a whole bunch of DIY projects that sit all over my space🙈 But this video has lit a little fire under me, so thank you😁

The production values of Karen's videos are very high. I absolutely loved the "creepy" zoom in on her puzzle face with the slight fade to black-and-white. Her photography during the gradient puzzle was superb. Add Karen's technical abilities to her great personality and we, the viewers, have an enchanting combination that makes watching a joy. Now, let me get back to the puzzle on the table next to me.

I love that Bgraamiens is "Brain Games" with the letters alternating from both words.

Puzzle stack ✅ Reading stack ✅ Knitting yarn stash ✅ Coloring book stack ✅ Nintendo game stack ✅ All the hobbies. All the stacks.

Wow not even a minute into the video and Karen is attacking my stack of books, my yarn collection and my tower of puzzles. 🤣

lol she started the video: if your a reader you have a stack of books TBR: me looking to my right were I have 50 books I need to read. if your a knitter you have boxes of yarn you haven't used: me looking in my closet where I have 8 tubs of yarn. if your a puzzler you have a shelf full of puzzles: me having stacks of puzzle everywhere. also me: I think I have a problem):

I had a series of thrift store trips in a couple days and ended up with an overflowing table full of puzzles and kept collecting more afterwards. So i ended up writing them all down on slips of paper and now pull them from a cup to decide which one to do next. It's very exciting to let the jar pick for me lol I've been steadily chipping away at the stack. Only about 70 left to do 😅

I "finally" stacked up some of my "to be read" books into a roughly conical shape, threw lights on it, and it's my bookmas tree. I could probably make a second one using "to be puzzled" boxes! 📚🎄 😁

The puzzle that was a photo of the string artists work is definitely worth $75, especially if you seal it and use it as artwork for a wall in your room decor. I don't say that about just any puzzle. This one is special as it is a photo of a working artists display piece. It was not one commissioned by a puzzle company, where the company is paying the artists by commission or as an employee. You would definitely be helping the artist continue his work by paying the higher price for the puzzle, IMO.

I know this would be a ton of work, but I would love a video along the lines of "30 puzzle brands in 30 minutes" where you quick fire summarize the key points of your top 30 puzzle brands of the moment.

I honestly love puzzles with letters on the back. You can sort the letters and do the mini puzzles on a smaller surface. It also makes challenging/repetitive/low resolution images easier to complete.

can't believe that as a reader-knitter i was ANIHILATED in the first 30 seconds of this video

The green "Lucky Lady" is definitely the reprint. In 1987, Sheaffer Eaton's corporate parent Textron sold the division. In response, a new company-- Berkshire Stationery Inc.-- was formed and continued to manufacture some of Sheaffer Eaton's products including the jigsaw puzzles. Also, for the Canadians in the audience, the puzzle publisher Eaton was an American company unrelated to the defunct Canadian department store.

I live in a large appartement building and in the lobby we have a thrift shelve. Every now and again a puzzle appears on the shelve, it’s gone for a few weeks/months and the same puzzle reappears. This continues until the puzzle disappears. Who are the puzzlers in my building? I feel no need to find them. We form anonymous community all working on the same puzzle. I really love it!

This has easily become one of my favorite RU-vid subscriptions. My wife and I just love watching how enthusiastic Karen gets about puzzles. Thanks for all the wonderfully fun content, it is appreciated!

I'd love to have a semi-regular "show and tell" type series. A dedicated space for those in-between puzzles that are special nevertheless. :)

“Disaster! At the puzzle video” got me LOL

Booktubers have TBRs, Karen has TBPs. Collective condolences for all the ideas that could’ve been :(

I'm FINALLY de-lurking to remark on the Gabriel Dawe gradient puzzle. I get all sorts of enjoyment from your videos, mostly the tranquility you offer and the satisfying sense of completion. I love your excitement, but this is my very first time of seeing you complete one that left me in awe. That gradient puzzle came together so beautifully, my jaw dropped. It's definitely one I would want to complete. I'm glad you answered as to who else received the other 2 Karen Face puzzles. When I saw the 3 on the table when you first showed it, I needed to know! Such a fun way to film it - the slow-mo creep into your eyes had me cackling. Thanks for the good time as always - peace and love to you!

Just completed your 1027 piece puzzle and it was so fun to do!

I picked up 4 Carnovsky puzzles this year, and have one left to do. They're a lot of fun! I tend t to stick to the red and green glasses though. The blue glasses help you see the yellow layer, but it's just not dark enough to show up clearly amid the brighter layers. Also, kudos to the manufacturer for their paper packaging!

If one is English and one is French/English. It's probably a second box style for selling to meet Canadian regulations, as we used to have Eaton stores up here too.

If you want to check out any of the puzzles I mentioned, I linked them in the video description! Which one would you most like to solve?

stop spying on me lol! i have boxes and baskets of yarn waiting for me to work on lol😂

Knitters have a bin? Try a whole 4x4 ikea storage cube + 3 bins. We call it SABLE = Stash Aquisition Beyond Life Expectancy

I'm currently working on a puzzle that's been sitting on a shelf for a while. It's taking me so long to do but I'm glad that I'm working on it. In case anyone wants to know which puzzle it is it's the Bepuzzled Impossibles aww... sleeping puppies puzzle. It's 1000 pieces with no edges and 5 extra pieces that don't fit.

So glad to see more puzzles and reviews......I loved your championships edits but missed your puzzling videos. As normal it was fun and great........love watching you. ❤

So happy to see all of your success with this channel Karen.

That was fun 🎉. Than you for your hard work putting Thea videos together. 💕 Watching while quilting. Haven’t been puzzling lately but I try to not miss any of you videos. The competition was great too😊

I get most of my puzzles from Goodwill (yes, sometimes missing pieces), but more affordable, so I have a shelf full of puzzles to do (as an avid reader, I also have a bookshelf full of TBR books as well). Not sure when they will be complete, but I love having options. Thanks for the content, love your videos!

I liked the variety of this video. Diving into a to-do-list, multiple puzzles, mini puzzling thoughts/reviews, puzzles sent by viewers, etc.

Im a serial hobbyist and serial project abandoner 😭 I have a knitting project from 2012 i still haven't finished, a chest full of quilt tops that just need to be backed and quilted, a shelf of unread books, and countless other diversions I've foresaken 😢

27:10 - Ah, Springbok. I remember solving these (full-sized) WAY back in the day (1960s!). They had the BEST pieces! I still have my 'Equivocation II' (op-art in green and yellow hues) that my dad gave me for Christmas back in 1965!

This video had me smiling the whole time. That there could be a puzzle out there you couldn’t tackle if you wanted to just doesn’t exist. But completely understand when you have to balance life, work and puzzling, some parameters need to be given. It’s why I’ve added 500 piece puzzles to my collection. 😊

I absolutely loved this style of video! I dont have a shelf of puzzles to do but I do crochet, cross stitch, embroidery, a bit of quilting and I love to read...this video was quite motivating!!

I read, knit, and puzzle and I’m feeling called out

... I read, crochet, paint, draw and sing... I have untouched books, yarn, thread, art supplies and sheet music everywhere 😅😂

For me it's quilts. I have all the fabric to make multiple quilts. It's actually making (and finishing!) them

"If you're a reader, I bet you have a big stack of books that is your To Be Read pile. If you're a knitter, I bet you have a basket of yarn you have not used. If you're a puzzler...." YES YES and YES. Thanks for calling me out, Karen. 😅

My husband is in the kitchen cooking and when you said "I completed 6 puzzles.. and added... a lot more" he says "I think she has a problem..*whispers* like you" 😅 I have so many puzzles to do AND a bookshelf full of books to read 😂

That’s a beautiful puzzle. Very impressed with your time completing it! Lovely to see you back ❤️🇬🇧

14:36 That's it. The definitive image that symbolises this entire channel. ♥

I have one of the Bgraamiens puzzles and I really appreciated the letters on the back side! I used them to sort the sections. Made a difficult puzzle more fun to do.

To be read books: yeah.... To be knitted/crocheted yarn (and other crafts): yeah..... To be puzzled/put together: If I get called out for 1 more thing...... 😂 😂 Then at 29:20 you pulled out the exact puzzle I got from my great grandma a few years ago when I stayed at her place for a couple days (I got the red boxed version). I managed to get the entire puzzle done within 2 days and it was surprisingly difficult for me to complete (then again my grandma didn't have the best lighting in her place at the time, so let's blame that lol) but was enjoyable. But I had to pause the video to laugh. I recently started taking pictures of all the puzzles I've put together, eventually want every puzzle I own done, and 2 days ago I pulled this puzzle out and have it sitting here to put together again. And I literally thought "Hey, it's an Eaton puzzle, I wonder if Karen knows about it" and here we are 😂 Currently working on a wolf puzzle though, might do this one next. Unfortunately part of the box is ripped but all the pieces were there last I knew, and that's the important thing. Thanks for showing all these puzzles! I have always loved doing puzzles, my great grandma and I used to do puzzles together all the time and I have several fond memories of different puzzles with her. When she passed in the beginning of last year I got all the puzzles she had, which wasn't many as she traded puzzles with people (which annoyed me because I would've loved to get all them myself but can't always get every puzzle you want I guess 😅 I'm just glad I managed to get a few puzzles from her over the years so she wouldn't trade them too like this particular one) but im glad I still have the love for puzzling like she had. And even though I am definitely jealous of your puzzle collection and would love to have all them (lol), I am grateful that you've chosen to share all these puzzles, many of which I didn't even know existed, so I can look into maybe getting some of them myself at some point. One thing though, idk if you're going to see this, but I have a puzzle that I can't find anything about online, and as you're the puzzle genius I was wondering if there was a way to contact you with pics of the puzzle to see if you know anything about it? I don't have Instagram or anything, I could do email? It's a solid red puzzle on both sides, but only cut on one side, it's in a glass jar that says "rainbow collection" along with an address and a company name that I literally can't find when looking it up, it's from the 1970s. The word collection suggests to me that other puzzles were made too, but not being able to find it online, and my great grandma was the one who originally got it but I can't ask her where/etc now, I don't know if it would be possible to get the other puzzles, if any. If not, that's fine, I can try looking it up again to see if I get different results but I know not everything is online so it might be impossible to find. Anyway, thanks again for these puzzle videos. I hope you continue finding and putting together all the puzzles you want to have. And most importantly, enjoy putting together. And have a great day!

I'm waiting for you to finally do some of the vintage Springbok puzzles, and the red and silver maze.

Loved this video, I'm just chilling as I finish up a crochet baby sweater. I have a suggestion if that might be welcome. I'm getting into labels for organizing and it might be helpful for ya to have little paper labels (that live in the box or something not an actual sticker) that says something like "Obtained/Received: date From: ebay/person/company/store/etc Completed: date Video title (when applicable): title Video published: date" the idea of little museum style labels just sounds cute. And with your graphic design bg I can only imagine it would be adorable.

It will be so fun to see like a monthly / two months update about those random puzzles!!

Sorry if this has been commented a ton already, but the second puzzle’s brand is Brain Games. The black and red letters alternate the words together. Their challenging designs are meant to be brain teasers so they’re all colorful complicated patterns. Only once have I had to use the letters on the back to finish one (floating numbers), and the Stopwatch one they have is my favorite one.

Hi Karen, I love unboxing videos!!! 🤩😍 I would definitely like to see the whole human body puzzle and also the Christmas ones look so fun!

I just discovered your channel and I am really enjoying it. It has rekindled my desire to start puzzling again. I just purchased your Ravensburger puzzle.

Those holiday puzzles would be on my table in a heartbeat!! Yes, please!❤

It is cool seeing all the new ones you receive. I have about 20 on my shelf and currently working on two.

I really loved this video, yeah some puzzles are cool enough for an entire video but sometimes puzzles are cool because they're simply cool. Would love to see more of these in the future

Always a lovely day when Karen uploads! So many beautiful puzzles in this video. Seems like I can finally start to put together my Christmas puzzle list now :D

I loved this style of video! Finally got to see that puzzle spill you hinted at earlier this week

love watching your videos while doing schoolwork! Finals week is this week and happy to have this video along for the ride!

Yes, just pulled out all my Christmas/winter puzzles..I always mean to get to them but never do..maybe this is the year!! Have fun puzzle-ing Karen♡

I have a stack of to be puzzled, yarn in multiple places (I knit and crochet), fabric everywhere, and many other craft supplies everywhere else

The time lapse of the gradient puzzle was really satisfying to watch. It’s beautiful, but the price tag only makes sense to collectors or, like you said, to support the artist. You talked about the one puzzle that gave you flashbacks to a competition. Do you ever have puzzling nightmares? I get nightmares whenever I spend a lot of time doing one thing, so I wouldn’t be surprised if you do.

I LOVE the black background Christmas Eeboo puzzle!

The zoom on the face 😂😂

I absolutely LOVE the design of that Wallflower puzzle. Let me see if I can get my hands on it here in the Netherlands!! Great video again Karen!!

FINALLY! I really liked this episode and I hope you continue to find time to do small, mini-reviews. It reminded me of STUFF YOU MISSED IN HISTORY CLASS when they do 6 Impossible Stories where they don't have quite enough information for a full episode but just enough for a short.

That Puzzle Michelle Wilson one looks gorgeous because of its perspective and fun to do to boot!

That Wallflower puzzle was really pretty! I have a lot of puzzles I haven't done yet, but it is mostly because I thought I was moving, so I packed them all away. But plans fell through, but I don't want to unpack them. lol

I'm really happy I found this channel. I have your puzzle coming. I'm excited to have it.

Love love love the round puzzle that Katie gave you! Beautiful 😍

I have a 4 tier bookshelf with all my 2 do puzzles. Love the car art puzzle.

For me it’s 2 puzzles, the cat puzzle and the last one you did, the overhead view of the tigers that you said was so hard.

Your Mom would love your portrait, unique and beautiful. Plus it’s special because it is a jigsaw puzzle of your passion for Jigsaw Puzzles. My stack of “finally’s” is only 5 or 6 boxes high.

To be called out in the first 10 seconds of a video is truly a new record for me.

I also got the mandala puzzle as a Christmas present a couple years ago and I think I did it on Christmas night😂 it was so fun

I love your videos. I wish you could do more often, but I also understand that you get burn out. This one was fun.❤️🙏🏻

I cannot wait to see those Christmas puzzles!! They're gorgeous! Must be nice to -finally- get to some of those to-dos! :D

Wallflower and Blooming Color are two of my favorites in my collection

As a wargamer who plays with little models, we have piles of shame which are our unpainted models. In February I painted a model i purchaed in 1993😅

Oh my gosh I love this video! I kinda wish you did more in this format and just ran through puzzles you do. I am terrible at following on Instagram so I miss a lot. For me it's books AND crafts AND art. 😂 I have so many things I want to do and have stacked up to do!!

I have the Bridgerton one! It’s actually just started my puzzle journey after watching you for years!

This should be a series!

(Finally) Love all the puzzle images in this video well done except the one from Alex’s house that one not so much. Love the amazing variety of puzzle brands you have in your channels. Thank you for another awesome video!

The vintage puzzles reminded me something I've been meaning to ask... have you ever done the vintage Springbok puzzle Verticalville? It's from 1977 and it is SO much fun. We found a copy at a thrift store and are currently working on it! (We have a toddler so we only get to puzzle for like 1 hour a day max, if we're not too sleepy by the time she's finally 🧩 in bed 😅) And yes, we do have a stack of puzzles we need to do... it's so hard when i want ALL THE PUZZLES and have so little time to do them!! Our stack is considerably smaller than yours at the moment though 😂

I'm looking forward to attacking my rather high tower of puzzles over the upcoming winter months. There's something so enjoyable about puzzling in the warmth of the house when the weather is wild outside.

I really enjoyed blooming colour - I bought that one for last Christmas holidays and did it over a day or so in between other stuff. I found the pieces quite unique to their position so was able to do it quite fast. You have reminded me I should get one or two for this holiday tho. Thank you.

Finally getting stuff done! You're awesome.

Currently doing the space krypt...its hard but im going through it, thanks for motivation, Karen!

TBR, yarn & crochet hook collection and puzzles over here! My daughter wants is to start a dollhouse because we are both a little obsessed with miniature things. *Finally*

First time watching your videos and yes, I do have a small stack of puzzles to be solved. Have learned so much from your videos! I am definitely a fan!

Yey karen uploaded a new video so i can finally relax 😊

I like the music you used during the gradient puzzle segment in the middle of the video 🙂

Looking forward to the Lazels puzzle being done! Those are so neat! Code word is finally.

I did the Lines puzzle from Brgaamiens and definitely needed the letters on the back for that one

I have a pile behind me that I’ve been collecting from the thrift store. That doesn’t count the ones on my shelves! I have a stack of 6 Xmas puzzles to do first!

when she zoomed in on her face i had flashblacks to the video of the doll puzzle😂😂😂 also, the elevator music was a nice touch. for me the majority of the books i “haven’t read” are hard copies of audio books i love, lol. my main problem is the growing collection of puzzles. to be fair, i try to be picky with the images by getting ones i know i’ll enjoy. puzzling has also been a kind of therapy for me as i have had some medical issues the last year

The zoom of your puzzle face at the end of that section :')

I’m working on that pile of old puzzles in the back of my closet…need room for new ones! I’m an accountant and genealogist - built in puzzle solver ;)

Maybe the Eaton puzzle in English & French is a Canadian release?

I had a nighttime NYC skyline puzzle (a gift from my mother in law) sitting on my shelf for many months. I am FINALLY solving it and filming it for a Timelapse. It is about as painful as I expected. 😂 I loved seeing this variety of puzzles you had let sit for a while!