Books

On November 27, 2016November 27, 2016 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw PuzzlesLeave a comment

I must have been having balance issues when I took a picture of this puzzle because it is crazy crooked and I don’t even have the whole puzzle in the picture! In my defense I didn’t know I’d be starting a blog and posting any of these pictures. Apologies. Annie Liebovitz has nothing to worry about, I am definitely no competition!

My first Heye puzzle and oh dear, I’m in love with this company too! The pieces are a little smaller than average and look thinner than Ravensburger, but it doesn’t matter because they feel sturdy and dense and fit together very well. The image reproduction was stellar, really beautiful and detailed.

This image really drew me in, I love the concept of how a book gets published and the journey a book takes from the author’s initial meeting with the publisher to it’s eventual end being read by a consumer (even if it’s nothing like what really happens). It’s a gorgeous picture and I had a great time assembling it.

After this puzzle I had another small break from reality and purchased a LOT of Heye puzzles. In addition to the excellent quality of Heye I love the triangle boxes of the cartoon puzzles, and that you get a ginormous poster inside. The new Heye catalog was just released for 2017, and oh dear there are SOOO many that I want!

Sunday 11-27-16

On November 27, 2016June 7, 2023 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

All it takes is faith and trust, and a little bit of pixie dust!

It doesn’t look like much, but I feel like I made great progress today! Mostly because I was able to connect almost everything together. The pixie dust was the key!

You can’t tell unless you’re looking close up, but the pixie dust has colors in it, which made it a little easier than I thought to get it all assembled. It was still time consuming, but not too terrible. Once the pixie dust was completed Wendy, John, Michael and Tinkerbell were all connected. When I put Peter where he goes I was only missing one piece to connect him to Wendy, and it was a piece I had put with the pixie dust so I found it very quickly.

Once I finished dog sitting for my mom I still had some time to work on the puzzle, so I started assembling the clock tower and statues below Wendy. This allowed me to attach the characters and pixie dust to the rest of the puzzle – almost everything on the board is connected! Still missing a few pieces of the pixie dust that I must not have sorted properly, but it was a pretty good day!

Saturday 11-26-16

On November 26, 2016June 7, 2023 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

Got most of the dark blue starry/edge pieces assembled, and now begins the fun part! I have absolutely no idea where to go from here, no idea where to start tomorrow. I am completely clueless. As usual. 🙂

What you see there is about 1600 pieces assembled, which means there are approximately 2400 left to go. Yowza. And except for the twinklies they are all shades of blue. I may try to do the trail of fairy dust left by Tinkerbell, but I learned in the Cinderella section that it can be difficult and time consuming. Although, that’s pretty much going to be the entire rest of the puzzle, so I might as well go for it, right?

What If #1 The Lost Lottery Ticket

On November 25, 2016June 7, 2023 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw PuzzlesLeave a comment

Here’s another puzzle I won’t show the whole picture of. Like the Wasgij, the image on the box isn’t what you puzzle, you have to figure out what would happen if…..

For this one, the cover of the box shows what our hero wants to happen when he buys a lottery ticket. The puzzle itself shows what if his ticket was the winner, but he lost it. I absolutely love the art of Geoff Tristam. It’s a fun cartoon puzzle, which I enjoy doing very much. It’s from Ravensburger, so we know the quality is amazing.

After doing the Wasgij, I decided I wanted to try the Ravensburger equivalent – What If. Absolutely loved it. Love that they are cartoon puzzles, love the artist, love the challenge of not having an image to work from, always love the Ravensburger quality – just LOVE it!

Uh, I now own all 16 What If puzzles. I clearly have an addictive personality!!! Perhaps I should stay off the internet because it always leads to looking for more puzzles to try, buy, and stock up on. 😮

Friday 11-25-16

On November 25, 2016June 7, 2023 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

The filmstrip is finished! (Missing one piece, but it’s a blue piece with stars on it that I most likely put in the wrong sorting container – it’ll turn up eventually)

I have the dark blue starry pieces sorted and ready to start assembling them tomorrow. Once the filmstrip is in place putting the dark starry pieces in is much easier, so those are the last of the relatively easy parts of this particular section. After that it’ll be lots of blue/dark blue/dark pieces.

It’s looking good, even though you can’t really tell from the picture that it’s 54 inches long and 38 inches tall. Yes, it is really that big! And this section is only 1/10 of the entire puzzle!