My Creative Style cutting is priced considerably more than my standard Swirl Curl and Long Round styles (see Cutting Styles for a discussion of my cutting styles). Thus, I rarely receive orders for puzzles cut in my Creative style and I enjoy a chance to cut this way when I can! In this puzzle, there is a whole lot of black, which really provided a great opportunity to "dance out" some neat Creative pieces, so I took advantage of the opportunity! I think I did some very nice Flow Cutting in the bottom section and this type of cutting combined with the extremely smooth spirals presents a beautiful effect.

As it happened (from my Journal archives)

June 7, 2002

8:47 pm - Another long day, completing a long week. Lot of email in the morning. I then completed two more puzzles.

#272 Sunny Side Up was supposed to be a 96 piece Creative cut puzzle (first Creative cut order this year!), 8" x 12", ended up with over 100 pieces, will have count later. The puzzle is a picture of a plaza taken through a dark archway. The puzzle's title is a play on the sole figural piece in the puzzle. Couple eggs showed up. I thought the Enigmatic Observer might at least drop by for a peek, but nothin'. I plan to have a dedicated page for the puzzle, as I'm a bit short of Creative puzzle pictures.

#273, Emily is a 8 1/2" x 6" 36 piece Swirl Curl puzzle, picture of a cute baby girl, with twirl star, dolphin and heart, word piece "Emily" and a printed name.