Rusty & Bay of Rusty Bay Publications

 

Rusty...my trusty, very fluffy, 8yo sidekick and my sweet little BayBay...who crossed the rainbow bridge March, 2021. She was 20yo.

 

Puppy Duty!

My furry niece (4 months old) was the center of my attention for the past 10 days. Little cutie pie. SOOO much energy. LOL I managed to retain all of my hair (only found a few more gray) when mom came to pick her up.

So, it's back to work, right? NOPE. Now the car insurance has my full attention. When a person is retired and on a set budget, a $400 increase to the annual auto insurance premium (topping out at $1588) is just a bit ridiculous. And when I called the insurance to find out WHY the huge jump up, I was told it wasn't anything to do with me (no tickets or claims here, just sayin), but it has to do with State mandates. To that I say... "\/\/" or 🙅🏻‍♀️ or 🤦🏻‍♀️ or 👎🏻.

ANYways, I'll get back to creating puzzles eventually. Just thought I'd share a few fun facts with you. 😁

Hope you're having a fantastic new year so far. Mine has been great, no complaints. No one listens to them anyways, right?? 

Until next time. Peace. ✌🏻

-- Teri

FREE PUZZLE BOOKLET!

I just updated my free puzzle booklet! YAY, me! 

Now you can sample three Tall Tales Word Search story puzzles and one GeoWordBlox™ puzzle. If you'd like to pick up a copy, please go to my website... RustyBayPublications.com ...for instant access.

Thanks for looking in... till next time.  PEACE!! ✌🏻

-- Teri

Book 3 is Underway!!

It's actually happening! I've actually started creating the puzzles for my third book.  SO EXCITING! This is the working cover design so far. It's a pic of my computer screen, so please forgive the quality.

The formatting for this one will be traditional with the search words listed below the grid, but very UNtraditional in that all of the search patterns will be GeoWordBlox™ shapes of squares, triangles, rectangles, diamonds and 90° angles. My goal is to make this challenging and different for even the veteran word searcher.

In addition to Book 3, I updated the website with a few pictures of Book 2. I want to add Rusty's and Bay's pics, but not sure where just yet. 

Finished a video, my first, that I'll be uploading to Tiktok, eventually. I'm not sure how to approach it. Guess just dive right in, huh? I would like to get a few more vids created so I can upload three times a week. That's a lot of videos. Based on my research, consistency is key, so this should be interesting. Not that I can't make the commitment, but the commitment is to social media. I'm not a fan, but it's a necessity these days. Sigh. Oh well.

Not much else to report. So, till next time. Peace! 

OH! Please let me know what you think of the cover!!  I'd LOVE to hear from you!

-- Teri

Wow. Already January 13th.

And it's a cold one here.  Brrrrrr.  A brisk 29℉ here with a low of 9℉ tonight.  Whoo.

Anyways, not much to report. Found new software to work on my puzzles, so that's a great relief. The site I used a couple years ago is no longer operational, so I was stressing a bit on how I'd create the puzzles for the 3rd book. Fear not! I found a great site, ABookCreator.com, to keep me on track. YAY!!

However, still working on getting the first two books noticed. Sales have been non-existent the last two years, so I have my work cut out for me. Amazing how you can't just let them sell themselves. Go figure.

That's all for now. Till next time. Peace.

-- Teri

The Loooong Break is Over!

I'm Baaaaack! Took a very long break, but now I'm back and working on my 3rd word search book. This one is entitled "GeoWordBlox Word Search Family" and contains only GeoWordBlox™ puzzles with a traditional list of words. No stories this time. I'll probably jump into stories again for the 4th book.

I'll also be creating a TikTok account within the next few days. Working out the details. Having lots of fun and enjoying every minute of this new journey.  I'll fill you in soon!

That's all for now.  Till next time!

-- Teri