For me, nothing just yet. My last puzzle completed is still on the board and I haven’t even taken pictures of it yet; yesterday was spent in bed. But what about you? What’s currently in progress on your puzzle board or table?
Working on something fabulous? I wanna hear all about it!
Chosen One – Mega Puzzles (Multipack) – 150 pieces
Here’s another fun puzzle from my multipack I found at the thrift store. I’m not in love with all of the images included, but this movie has a special place in my heart and I like the look of this one. It was pretty awful quality, but still was fun to assemble. It’s so nice for me to work on a smaller piece count after finishing a larger puzzle, it feels like a palate cleanser.
Many of the pieces had this problem; the die didn’t cut all the way through, and when someone separated the pieces the paper gets torn. Once it’s torn it can leave paper sticking up like this which makes the piece lift up off of the board. Annoying.
This is another puzzle where I documented the assembly as I went along, with a smaller puzzle it’s over so quickly and the puzzle doesn’t really need closeups to show you certain parts of the image. It’s more fun to just see how it came together – at least I think it is.
Of course it got started with the words, they’re almost always my favorite part.
Sorry about the glare, I didn’t check the picture before I continued on with the assembly – and I should have. I’ll get better at it if I start doing more in progress assembly pictures. Although you can’t see him well Buzz is mostly finished here.
After Buzz was done I just grabbed all the pieces with blue/purple of the little green men/squeeze toy aliens; it’s just fun to go where the pieces take you, especially on a smaller puzzle. This one was really enjoyable.
Even though this was missing a piece it was still great fun to put together and I enjoyed it. This puzzle came from a multipack, so it may be that the wandering piece found it’s way into a small bag with a different puzzle – or it could be long gone. You never know. Still even with a missing piece this was entertaining and made me smile. Can’t ask for much more than that.
Life is an Open Book – Paris by Aimee Stewart – Buffalo – 1000 pieces
What a stunningly beautiful image, I had the best time with this puzzle! Of course we know that Aimee Stewart is my favorite puzzle artist, her images make for the most interesting, challenging, wonderful assembly experiences. I absolutely adore them, and this was even more fabulous than expected.
The Life is an Open Book series of puzzles has been out in the world for many years now, but I just got my hands on one of them very recently. What on Earth I was thinking waiting so long to try these out I have no idea – I can’t have been thinking very much at all. I want every single city in this series. Immediately! The quality was excellent, the image was fantastic, and the assembly was so challenging and relaxing at the same time. My little old lady’s puzzling heart is going pitter patter at the thought of collecting the remaining three cities. 💓
When I first saw this tiny little section of the puzzle, it made me smile. Of course I remember the horrible Chat Noir puzzle that mom and I put together – it was not much fun at all; but seeing this tiny representation of it made me think of her, which is lovely. We HATED this puzzle, and after assembling it we vowed to be more discerning before jumping in feet first whenever there was an image we loved; because they don’t all make for fun puzzling. Still, I have the memory of this puzzle intertwined with memories of mom and I working on it together, cussing and laughing and cheering each other on – of course it brings a smile to my face.
Fine Art puzzles are not really images I enjoy putting together, so this is most likely the last time you’ll see Ms. Lisa here on the blog. Still, I can now honestly say that I assembled an image of the Mona Lisa. 🖼
All the books, posters, and knick-knacks made for such entertaining assembling; lots of words, beautiful colors, many small things to discover and place in the image.
This artwork shows off the best of Aimee Stewart in my very humble opinion. You’ve got her shelves, lots of books, posters, bright colors, a collection of many disparate objects that all seem to work together perfectly to make a stunning piece of art. And it all fits together on a beautiful puzzle that is a joy to assemble – I couldn’t ask for more.
Other than the remaining cities in this series, of course.😉
Frenchie by Karen Burke – MasterPieces – 1000 pieces
There isn’t much to tell today unfortunately. Yesterday was a bad day for me in the pain department, so there wasn’t much work completed on today’s puzzle. In fact I didn’t get out of bed to actual put puzzle pieces together until almost two in the afternoon!
That’s ok, the little guy in the puzzle knows I love him, and that it will be great fun putting together every last bit of him. Adore this image.😍
Family Dinner by Ed Wargo – Rose Art (Back to the Past) – 750 pieces
The Back to the Past series from Rose Art has some amazing artwork, and if this puzzle is any indication they make for challenging and wonderfully entertaining puzzling. This puzzle was a great time, and I don’t know where else a person can pay $2.99 and get hours and hours worth of amusement, enjoyment, relaxation, and distraction out of it. Adored this one!
Rose Art puzzles can be hit or miss in the quality department, and luckily this one was a hit. The very blocky grid cut pieces made for some false fits, but if I’d really been paying attention maybe I’d have realized my mistakes more quickly. The image reproduction is lovely, but the painterly style made some pieces look like blotchy blobs of color – it was the image itself though, not the reproduction. There were a good variety of pieces that fit together well and the chipboard was relatively thick and sturdy. Overall this was a good quality puzzle, and I was quite happy with it.
If any of you grew up in the 60s and 70s this might be a familiar looking thing – all the side dishes and casseroles. My mother had sooooo many casserole dishes, it was quite a thing at the time; the number of beautiful Corning Ware dishes she had was amazing, and I wish I had more of them here. We never had a giant roast like the one in this oven, we weren’t that well off (and honestly the number of little side dishes shown here for a family dinner seems a bit excessive to me) but the first thing I noticed in the oven were the two casserole dishes in the smaller left-hand oven. They immediately made me think of my mom. 💜
The first thing I put together was this refrigerator with all the wonderful little drawings on it. They were easy to pick out during the sorting, and it’s always fun to have something to assemble immediately after you put together the border.
I really had a good time with this assembly, and it’s making me want to get my butt back to the thrift store to see what other treasures I can find. This beauty has been sent on to Penny soon so she can assemble it too; when I texted her a picture of the puzzle I was doing she immediately asked if she could have it after I was done. Hope you love it my friend! 📦🧩
My Jigsaw Journal 