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Family Time Means No Screen Time.

After television became popular it became known as the “boob tube” because people could spend hours watching show after show, isolated from the world. Now with the explosion of smartphones and tablets family members are increasingly attached to their own individual “boob tubes” sucked into the world of downloaded television programs, movies, social media and an endless internet to be surfed. How many times have you asked yourself:

The History of Puzzles

Ever since the engraver and cartographer John Spilsbury of London, is believed to have produced the first jigsaw puzzle in 1767, things have progressed far, yet paradoxically have also remained very true to their roots. Jigsaw puzzles typically come in 300-piece, 500-piece, 750-piece, and 1,000-piece sizes; however the largest commercial puzzle has 32,256 pieces!