Alphabet Photo Challenge - J

[Cassel]

The idea of one photo a week was quite popular in 2024, and it encouraged participants to take photos and showcase them without having to create a whole layout for them.

In 2025, I will offer you a little twist on this. Again, the idea is only to showcase a single photo at a time. You can showcase them as a flashcard, emphasizing the letter (you can use these free cards as a basis to create your own). Of course, if you want a different format, you can use a polaroid frame, a slide, or a playing card (like Susan was doing in 2024). Choose the format you want, and keep it throughout the year. But just make sure to emphasize the first letter!

Every 2 weeks, you will be asked to take a picture of something, at home (or around your home) that starts with a specific letter of the alphabet. The goal is just to be on the lookout for ANYTHING that can be photographed. You can stage the object however you want, or just take a picture of it in its natural environment. For example, you can showcase your favorite Mug, or your Pillow, or your Fireplace.

You can practice your photography skills if you want, but you can just capture things as they are.

Let's just encourage each other.

This is a no-pressure thread.

And if you skip a letter or two, you can always come back. You know your alphabet, so you can easily catch up whenever you need to.

Let's continue with the letter J. It could be your favorite Jar of buttons, the Juicer on your counter, a cozy Jumper hanging on a hook, or that old Junk drawer everyone seems to have!

What will you showcase?

[Rene Marker]

J is for Jigsaw Puzzles.

Dad passed away in June 2016. When the holidays came around later in the year, beside being in my seasonal depression, I was feeling very down about my first holiday season without either parent. I saw jigsaw puzzles at Wal-Mart and picked one up thinking it would keep my mind occupied. As I was working on it, I felt completely at peace. My dad also did jigsaw puzzles at various times of his life, quite often when he was in Florida for the winter. He'd start a puzzle and work on it a little every day. I even bought him a jigsaw puzzle carrier for Christmas one year before Mom passed away (bought one for me as well). He would put the puzzle on it then if needed, it could be put away without tearing it apart.

I ended up buying more puzzles in 2016 and every year since then I spend the month of December working on puzzles as much as I can. This photo is just a few of the ones I have stocked up on. As I see puzzles I'm interested in doing, I buy them so right now I have around 12 to 15 in a box. There are times I will pull one out and work on it at others times of the year as well. I definitely have too many hobbies...Scrapping, Counted Cross Stitch, Genealogy and Jigsaw Puzzles.

 

[Ann Seeber]

JARS resonated with me. Here are a couple of my Mason jars...

[Susan Ewart]

2 hours ago, Rene Marker said:

J is for Jigsaw Puzzles.

Dad passed away in June 2016. When the holidays came around later in the year, beside being in my seasonal depression, I was feeling very down about my first holiday season without either parent. I saw jigsaw puzzles at Wal-Mart and picked one up thinking it would keep my mind occupied. As I was working on it, I felt completely at peace. My dad also did jigsaw puzzles at various times of his life, quite often when he was in Florida for the winter. He'd start a puzzle and work on it a little every day. I even bought him a jigsaw puzzle carrier for Christmas one year before Mom passed away (bought one for me as well). He would put the puzzle on it then if needed, it could be put away without tearing it apart.

I ended up buying more puzzles in 2016 and every year since then I spend the month of December working on puzzles as much as I can. This photo is just a few of the ones I have stocked up on. As I see puzzles I'm interested in doing, I buy them so right now I have around 12 to 15 in a box. There are times I will pull one out and work on it at others times of the year as well. I definitely have too many hobbies...Scrapping, Counted Cross Stitch, Genealogy and Jigsaw Puzzles.

 

Can you really have "too many" hobbies?  🙃

[Susan Ewart]

58 minutes ago, Ann Seeber said:

JARS resonated with me. Here are a couple of my Mason jars...

I love jars too and was thinking of that for the layout.  But never fear I had chosen something even more simple that it perhaps should even count....if I ever get to that point.  

[Corrie Kinkel]

3 hours ago, Rene Marker said:

J is for Jigsaw Puzzles.

Dad passed away in June 2016. When the holidays came around later in the year, beside being in my seasonal depression, I was feeling very down about my first holiday season without either parent. I saw jigsaw puzzles at Wal-Mart and picked one up thinking it would keep my mind occupied. As I was working on it, I felt completely at peace. My dad also did jigsaw puzzles at various times of his life, quite often when he was in Florida for the winter. He'd start a puzzle and work on it a little every day. I even bought him a jigsaw puzzle carrier for Christmas one year before Mom passed away (bought one for me as well). He would put the puzzle on it then if needed, it could be put away without tearing it apart.

I ended up buying more puzzles in 2016 and every year since then I spend the month of December working on puzzles as much as I can. This photo is just a few of the ones I have stocked up on. As I see puzzles I'm interested in doing, I buy them so right now I have around 12 to 15 in a box. There are times I will pull one out and work on it at others times of the year as well. I definitely have too many hobbies...Scrapping, Counted Cross Stitch, Genealogy and Jigsaw Puzzles.

 

I love to see another jigsaw puzzle fan! I have done so many and had an exchange scheme with my sister in law. But sadly puzzles are no longer for me, the strain is too much on my eyes and my sister in law died some years ago as well. During Covid my husband caught the puzzle "virus" as we call it and nowadays he exchanges puzzles with our daughter in law.

[Rene Marker]

25 minutes ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

I love to see another jigsaw puzzle fan! I have done so many and had an exchange scheme with my sister in law. But sadly puzzles are no longer for me, the strain is too much on my eyes and my sister in law died some years ago as well. During Covid my husband caught the puzzle "virus" as we call it and nowadays he exchanges puzzles with our daughter in law.

I've kept a few of my favorites but the rest I donated to a local thrift store. I have a closet with shelves that I put them in when I'm done. When the shelves get full, I donate. Then I learned last summer that when the library has their annual book sale in August, jigsaw puzzles and games are also included. I was too late to donate but one of my genealogy friends (actually a 3rd or 4th cousin), has a friend that loves to do them but has a limited income. So I ended up selling her friend 20 puzzles for $10.00. 50 cents is the cost of a puzzle at the library sale where her friend usually would get puzzles. I still ended up donating another 10 to 15 puzzles to the thrift store. 

[Corrie Kinkel]

My J is for Jugendstil. Many years ago we did a city trip to Berlin and visited the Hackesche Höfe (Hacke's Courtyards). This is a building complex situated in the center of Berlin and is designed in Jugendstil (Art Nouveau). It was badly damaged in WWII but is beautifully restored now. A lot of the buildings have magnificent tiles and those are remade and we bought one; we are still sorry we only bought one.

[Michele]

23 hours ago, Rene Marker said:

J is for Jigsaw Puzzles.

I love jigsaw puzzles. I also had a puzzle carrier; it was easy to roll it up to save for another day. Due to a lack of room when I moved, I started doing them online. 

[Rene Marker]

5 hours ago, Michele said:

I love jigsaw puzzles. I also had a puzzle carrier; it was easy to roll it up to save for another day. Due to a lack of room when I moved, I started doing them online. 

I have a jigsaw app on my tablet. But there is nothing like holding the pieces and making them fit for a real jigsaw puzzle.

My carrier does not roll up. It is heavy cardboard with flaps that open and has 2 sections that can hold the pieces not used yet. Those sections sit on top of the puzzle and keep everything in place. It also has a handle to carry it. It is 25Hx30Lx2D inches in size. It was perfect for Dad when they were in Florida since he worked on the puzzles on the coffee table which wasn't big enough for a puzzle. And, those trailers had limited space so he could just close it up and put it behind a piece of furniture until he wanted to work on it again.

[Michele]

13 hours ago, Rene Marker said:

I have a jigsaw app on my tablet. But there is nothing like holding the pieces and making them fit for a real jigsaw puzzle.

My carrier does not roll up. It is heavy cardboard with flaps that open and has 2 sections that can hold the pieces not used yet. Those sections sit on top of the puzzle and keep everything in place. It also has a handle to carry it. It is 25Hx30Lx2D inches in size. It was perfect for Dad when they were in Florida since he worked on the puzzles on the coffee table which wasn't big enough for a puzzle. And, those trailers had limited space so he could just close it up and put it behind a piece of furniture until he wanted to work on it again.

My dentist has huge, finished puzzles hanging on the office walls. He does them on his ping pong table.

[Susan Ewart]

J- miminal

'nuff said...

hahahah, right, like I could just leave it at that.  You all expect it, you all know it's coming Along with being a font-a-holic I seem to be a word-a-holic, a complete waster of words.  There should be some word-police to stop my blathering-on-long-story posts.  But there isn't, aren't you all so very lucky. 😜

And...wouldn't you know I clearly don't know the order of the alphabet.  I've had this done for over a month before I realized I forgot about poor 'I'.   this was the layout of masks, one to lighten up a part of the J, another to mask the J itself and then I add the background.  I actually have 4 backgrounds in this mask if I ever want a J with another background (and who wouldn't want that?)

[Harmony Birch]

For my J I chose jewellerry, I don't have many pieces but the few I have I like to displauy around the house over various ornaments rather than keep them locked away in boxes.

[Corrie Kinkel]

19 hours ago, Harmony Birch said:

For my J I chose jewellerry, I don't have many pieces but the few I have I like to displauy around the house over various ornaments rather than keep them locked away in boxes.

That is a nice way to display your jewelry. Your way of spelling it as jewellery was new to me so I checked and saw that it is UK English. I'm learning here so much more than scrapbook related things! 

[Susan Ewart]

2 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

That is a nice way to display your jewelry. Your way of spelling it as jewellery was new to me so I checked and saw that it is UK English. I'm learning here so much more than scrapbook related things! 

We spell it like that in Canada too.

[Mary Solaas]

And finally J - red raspberry is probably my favorite berry

[Corrie Kinkel]

20 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

And finally J - red raspberry is probably my favorite berry

I reacted just on your Ice cream and this looks delicious too!