Happy Mother’s Day

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To all the moms out there I wish you a wonderful day filled with love and loved ones. I hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday, and if you celebrate Mother’s Day I hope it’s a fabulous holiday for you. As for me, hopefully I’ll be in bed being pampered by the kids and hubby – or sitting in front of my puzzle board putting together little pieces of cardboard or wood to make a pretty picture.

If you’re a mom – thank you for all the wonderful, tedious, brave, boring, gracious, heartbreaking, compassionate, caring, forgiving and loving things you do. Even if it isn’t spoken aloud to you enough (and it never is), it is always appreciated. If you’re not a mom, Happy Mother’s Day anyway!

Enjoy your day everyone; my hope is that it’s full of lots of love and peaceful puzzling.

Of course the picture above is my beautiful, loving, fantastic, silly, sweet, kind momma. She was the first and most important member of my Puzzle Posse and she loved sitting with me and talking about everything and nothing while we worked together on puzzles. I treasure every moment we had no matter what we were doing, her momma mojo was amazing and as friends we were the bestest of besties. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 7 years since we lost her; she is so very missed – especially today. 💕

Birthday Party Doug

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Birthday Party Doug – Buffalo – 300 pieces

What I’ve remembered now that I’m back at my puzzle table and blogging again is that when I finish a puzzle and take pictures I need to be prepared to type up my post immediately. Old lady brain sets in and even though I put in a few descriptors about the assembly and the puzzle itself when I start the draft – it isn’t enough. It needs to be done while everything is fresh in my mind.

I was in such a hurry to get going on my next puzzle that all I did was put a few comments into the draft along with the pictures. Now it’s only a few days later and here I sit thinking “What the hell do I write about this?” Old age ain’t for sissies, that’s all I’m sayin’!

On to the puzzle… it’s an adorable image on top of a great quality jigsaw puzzle, what could be better? I’ve done a few Doug the Pug puzzles and have thoroughly enjoyed every single one. Sometimes they can be a little challenging, but that’s a good time for me in it’s own way as well. Buffalo makes excellent puzzles, and their choice of images seems to have something for everyone.

How cute is that pupper sitting up? So cute!

Sew Happy

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Sew Happy – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

This went together VERY quickly, and I absolutely adored it. After typing up my post for Frosty Frolics I really did want to put together a MicroPuzzle. So I did. This image jumped out at me as I was looking through what there was on hand – and I had the best time putting it together.

The bright colors on a white background made it easy enough to assemble, but no so easy as to be boring. The quality was the usual excellence I’ve come to expect from MicroPuzzles; great fit, beautiful and interesting images, and just an overall well-made puzzle.

The fit was so nice that I got to take one of my favorite pictures, standing on it’s edge!

Dark Academia In Progress…

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Dark Academia – Re-marks – 1000 pieces

I’ve started another collage, this is another book covers collage from Re-marks and I can already tell that it is going to be extremely entertaining to assemble!

Usually there are many books from these types of collages that I have read, this time there’s only one – it shocked me. You may be surprised to find that I consider my self relatively intelligent and well read but in this collage the only book shown that I’ve read is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Does that make a uncultured swine? Perhaps. I don’t really care; I’m past the age of giving a crap what other people think of me and doing things because someone else thinks I should. A few of the books look interesting, but at the moment I’m not going out of my way to stock up on any of them. For me the draw here was the image of the book covers themselves, not to get a suggested reading list. It just looks like a fun puzzle and that’s it.

So far it’s been great. The initial sorting didn’t seem to take forever, I pulled the pieces for a dozen or so books that were easy to find, and got all the edges on the first try. Excellent progress so far. 😎

Flight of Scarlet

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Flight of Scarlet by Daniel Merriam – Artifact Puzzles – 364 pieces

Absolutely stunning image that wasn’t quite as difficult as I’d made it out to be in my head. Good thing I decided to just jump in because it was a lovely assembly all around.

There wasn’t much in the way of whimsies, but I think it’s because it was one of Artifact’s “challenging” puzzles. The whimsy pieces weren’t as important in the design of the pieces, and that’s ok. It was still completely entertaining.

You can see from the back the symmetry in the design of the pieces and where they go, how it makes it’s own gorgeous little design with just the piece shapes.

I had this puzzle for quite a while; bought it because it was beautiful but then was intimidated by the piece shapes and how it was categorized a challenging puzzle. As usual, I should have just jumped in without listening to what others thought – it was so much fun!