Jiggly Jigsaw Puzzling

Now that I've been spending more evenings alone at home because the husband's work is more demanding lately, I thought that I need to start a hobby to avoid boredom and eventually question my husband's absence. Diversion technique ang tawag ko dito! Hahaha!

My body says why not devote my time to exercising? But my mind says big fat NO! Hahaha!

Then there's always my love for books. Ohh I did, I finished a bunch of book already but now I want something else.

Then there's a thought of cross stitching. But then again, I chose jigsaw puzzle first. It's actually not my first time naman to do puzzles. Naimpluwensyahan lang ako ng mga in laws ko so I bought myself my own mat and started my own puzzle. I was able to finish a 1000-pc flower puzzle but I wasn't able to frame it. Ayun nabasa so sayang lang! Then for my second puzzle, I got a meadow full of flowers but I found it too difficult because the design was somewhat abstract. Ayun tinamad lang ako. 

So one fine Sunday (which is the only free time of the week of my dearest D), we bought a 1000-pc puzzle again. This time we chose a cartoon motorcycle themed puzzle. Shempre naexcite si mokong and promised to help me build it.

Here's what I posted on Instagram the day we got it. 

The puzzle pieces below are from the one I didn't finish. Aww

D did help me whenever he's home but super saglit lang! So mostly the credit is mine talaga. Hahaha! After 5 days of doing puzzles every night, we finally finished it! Yay!

Problem is (present talaga kasi we are still trying to figure out what to do) we are missing a piece but we have 2 extra pieces which are identical to 2 other pieces in the puzzle. Ang weird lang! Here's a close up picture -

Here's a whole frame shot naman -

My not intentionally blurred puzzle masterpiece

Cute noh? We are planning to put it up in our future children's room. Weeee

Anyway, what would you suggest we do about the missing piece issue? I posted this on Facebook and my in laws said that I should return the puzzle to where I bought it. But guys, I bought it in Toy Kingdom here in the Philippines and they are not the one who manufactured the puzzle. According to the box, the puzzle is made somewhere in the Netherlands. What I'm thinking might happen is Toy Kingdom will just tell me that I might just have lost the piece. But then again I will reason out that if I lost a piece then why do I have 2 extras. Then they will see that I have a point so they will just tell me that they cannot do something about it because they just bought it also. They can offer to send it over to the manufacturer and then we'll wait for a response (maybe they can create that single piece for me). Which I think is nearly impossible or if they manage to make it happen, it will surely take a lot of time in transit. Alternatively, Toy Kingdom might also give me a fresh puzzle (same design). Wow! So it means I have to re-do the puzzle I patiently built for 5 days. NO WAY!

So what I think we should do instead is just to live with it. D suggested we create the piece ourselves but me thinks it will be difficult because we need to color it pa. What I was suggesting is to just create a border in the frame that will hide that one edge. That's one positive thing here pala folks! The missing piece sits on the edge so it can easily be concealed. Goodness gracious!

So what do you think we should do? Don't start on "You should send it back" because I already glued the pieces together. Hahaha!

Patiently crafting,
Yosh