Rainbow Donuts

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Rainbow Donuts by Julie Seabrook – Good Puzzle Co. – 500 pieces

Gorgeous image on a fair quality puzzle, I enjoyed the assembly regardless – cause I love a rainbow image! This was my first puzzle from this brand, which I understand is the eco-conscious line of Galison puzzles. Hmmm. I’m not a fan of Galison puzzles, but this one wasn’t bad.

All the pieces were ballerinas, which is pretty boring if you ask me. Two male ends/two female ends, same shape. Boring. The fit was a little loose, but the image reproduction was very nice and it wasn’t too shiny. Overall I’d give this one a fair rating.

Sorry I don’t have much to say about this one. It was only ok. Love the image but the puzzle quality itself left something to be desired. I don’t know that I’d recommend buying this one new, but if you can find it at a thrift store or resale shop it’s worth it. The assembly itself was fun and the image is lovely.

Movie Cats

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Movie Cats by Angie Rozelaar – Rose Art – 300 pieces

Long time readers will know that I do not care much for cat puzzles as a rule, but there are always exceptions and this is one of them. When I saw this puzzle on Puzzle Momma’s Blog I knew that I wanted to do this one, it’s too adorable for words! When we finally met for the first time in September we had a great time putting this one together, and I thought we worked together really well. Sometimes puzzling with someone else can be a little anxiety-inducing or downright frustrating, but not so with Penny – it was as if we’d been puzzling together for years. 💗

This Rose Art puzzle’s quality was pretty impressive, and I hope it wasn’t a fluke. In the past there have been some issues here and there with some of their puzzles in the quality department, but this one had nice, thick pieces that fit together well and beautiful image reproduction. Keep it up Rose Art, very nice work!

This was the first little section that I put together, how silly and ridiculous is that? I haven’t seen the real movie, but love the look of this.

Come on! Is this adorable or what?! And you couldn’t have picked a better movie title either. I remember this movie from when I was young; the songs will forever be in my brain, and that child catcher gave me nightmares, yikes!

This is a movie that the whole family loves, and while the Dude abides, I’m sure he’d like this movie poster for The Big Meowski. Those glasses look likes his rug that got ruined, oh dear!

Overall this was a very good quality puzzle that was great fun to assemble with my bestest puzzle pal. We had the bestest time!

Moonstrike In Progress…

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Moonstrike – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

My youngest son picked out this puzzle for me to do next, sigh; being the great mom that I am I obliged. I don’t think I would have chosen this on my own just now, but they are here to all be assembled eventually – so here we go!

This little one coffee puzzle has been sitting on my board for two days now while I deal with some things that have kept me in bed. I was able to get up for a bit yesterday and do a little bit of it, but the sitting up didn’t last long so it’s only partially complete. It’s been several coffees now, and it still isn’t done.

I’m hoping today to spend a little more time at the board and working on the blog. The fruits and veggies puzzle is complete but still sitting on the board until the post gets written up, which I also haven’t done. I’ll get there, eventually.

Ghost Friends

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Ghost Friends by Kathryn Selbert – Crocodile Creek – 100 pieces

You heard about this puzzle a month ago when I talked about Puzzle Chess and how I bought this puzzle expressly for the purpose of playing it with Penny when we finally met and got to puzzle together for the first time. It’s an adorable image by a new artist for me, and a new puzzle brand as well. It was a really enjoyable image to puzzle, and once Penny and I had finished our game of chess and just ended up puzzling together a great time was had by all. 🧩💚

I’d never heard of this brand before, Crocodile Creek. I was impressed with the quality of the puzzle, the pieces were thick and had a good hand feel, there were a great variety of shapes and they fit together well. The image reproduction was bright and clear and colorful with a slightly shiny finish that wasn’t too bad to work with. Overall I was impressed with this little one coffee puzzle!

The great fit made it possible to stand this little puzzle up, it’s the Stacey Stance – woooo hoooo! I don’t know why it makes me so happy to do this, it just does and I don’t apologize for it.

This puzzle was also a glow-in-the-dark image, so we put it outside while we had lunch and brought it in to see if the glow image was as fun as we’d hoped. Alas, it was a little disappointing in the GITD category, but it wasn’t too terrible. I have to keep reminding myself that they can’t all be as fabulous as the Secrets of the Deep puzzle that I assembled earlier this year. Still I got a pretty good picture of this one, it actually turned out better in the picture than it seemed in person.

It’s so adorably spoooooky! Penny and I enjoyed putting these Ghost Friends together, I’m so glad we got to try out puzzle chess, and we put this cutie together – together!

Storytime

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Storytime by Charlie Girard – White Mountain – 1000 pieces

Loved it. Well of course I did, it’s a collage! And to assemble so many of the books that I read as a child or that I read to my own children, it was just a sweet little walk down memory lane as I was puzzling.

I had this exact book, with this exact cover when I was little. I loved Pippi and wanted to be just like her; a kick-ass girl who didn’t care what others thought, didn’t much like authority, was fiercely independent, not mention very strong – and we both had freckles so of course I thought I was gonna be exactly like her. 😂

My kids were very much into the Madeline books at one point. We watched the animated tv show together, read the books together, and of course we made special trips to the library to get more Madeline books together!

Curious George was another book series I loved as a child, all the trouble he got himself into made for some interesting little books. My children were never too taken with this series, but I remember them fondly from my own childhood.

Overall I really enjoyed this puzzle, but unless there was a problem with the quality I knew it would be great fun to assemble. The colors and different types of artwork made for an interesting build that was definitely never boring. It brought back memories of my childhood as well as the time when my kids were small. I’m so glad we’re all readers in this family!