Last summer, while on vacation with Nik’s family at Deep Creek Lake, we bought this handmade moose puzzle at the local farmers’ market.

Putting a puzzle together in 3-D is actually really difficult!

Eric and Meggan and their kids visited us last summer and with all the chaos of five children running around, most of the puzzle disappeared.  We managed to find all of it except for the front leg and so had resigned ourselves to a 3-legged moose.  Then this spring, Nik was cleaning out our old car in preparation for selling it and ta da!  A moose leg!

I decided we needed a bag for the moose to keep him safe from other little children (namely Ellie) and so here it is, a camping themed bag for our wooden moose.

I know that’s not a moose in the applique but it’s close enough!

Here’s to puzzles and moose!