It doesn’t look like much, but that is almost 700 pieces done! It really doesn’t look that impressive at all, does it? Oh well.
I wasn’t able to work on the puzzle much today, I’m puppy-sitting my daughter’s two dogs and they were quite adamant about me spending time with them instead of the puzzle. They were looking for snuggles and play time and lovin’, not me having quiet time with my hobby. That’s alright though, I’m enjoying my grandpuppies staying with us.
More work on the twinklies tomorrow, if I’m allowed. 😉
Fantasia has begun! The filmstrip is done and I had a great time doing it. Tomorrow I’ll work on the top edge and the dark blue and if I’m feeling well enough I might even start on the twinklies.
I was talking to my mom yesterday and I think either this section is going to take me a while or I’m going to get it done really fast because I just want to get it over with. I’m not sure which one it’s going to be yet, but I guess we’ll see soon enough. I could tell while sorting the pieces that this one was gonna be a little tougher than any of the other ones so far. The number of containers needed for sorting was much smaller than any of the previous sections, and there is much less color.
But just think how proud I’ll be once I finish this section! It won’t be the hardest puzzle I’ve ever done, but it’ll be up there in the top 5!
Celebration of Women – Tea Time by Patricia Govezensky – Sure-Lox – 500 pieces
My first Sure-Lox puzzle…..eh. Didn’t hate it, but didn’t love it either. The pieces were thin, not the thinnest I’ve worked with but thin. My main problem with this puzzle was that every piece was the same shape. There were slight variations, but every piece had two prongs and two holes. Boring. Momma needs more excitement in her life! More piece shapes please! 😉
On the plus side, the pieces fit together very well, well enough that you can lift the puzzle by one of the corners and it basically stayed together. I like when a puzzle fits together well, but not so tightly that you have to work on your biceps to put the pieces together. (I mean, I know I’m a woman in her 40’s and I have bingo wings, but I’m doing the best I can! Don’t make me work out doing a jigsaw puzzle!) And you can see that the piece shapes are not glaringly obvious in the finished puzzle, especially the darker sections. The image quality was quite good as well. It took me a while to get used to the artwork in this one, but I ended up loving the artwork and I think the finished puzzle is interesting and beautiful.
I can’t say whether or not I would buy another puzzle from this company. On the one hand the pieces are thin and there is only one piece shape, on the other hand the fit is excellent and the image quality is very good. I guess it would come down to how I felt about the image itself, maybe……maybe not.
Donuts and Pastries – White Mountain Puzzles – 1000 pieces
Since I showed the Coffee Cafe on Monday, I figured we’d add some donuts and pastries to go with!
Obviously this is not a picture of the completed puzzle that I did. I do have a picture of that on my completed puzzles 2016 page (April – June) but I must have been having an inner ear problem or I desperately need new glasses because the picture is extremely cockeyed and I don’t have the entire puzzle in the picture. Although if you’re interested you can see a bit of my bedspread at the bottom. 🙂 So I decided it would just be better to show the WHOLE puzzle in a picture. Ta-da!
This was another extremely fun collage from White Mountain. It’s so much fun for me to have a bunch of smaller images to put together, it makes it seem like even a 1000 piece puzzle is no big deal and it goes so quickly! The puzzle was the usual good White Mountain quality, and the image quality was so good it made me hungry. The donuts were interestingly decorated, the backgrounds were fun and all together it was just a great puzzle to assemble.
When I’ve been working on a difficult or challenging puzzle it’s so nice to have a collage puzzle as a palette cleanser. I can pull out a few pieces and assemble them, which leads to the next space and so on. Â Not to say one is more fun than the other, the challenging ones are fun for me as well!
If you’re a fan of collages, donuts or puzzles, I highly recommend this puzzle. Yum!
60% finished, and I must say I am enjoying this enormous puzzle a lot more than I thought I would. Even with me being a moron and dropping a section, still loving this puzzle and the assembly.
This section took me 14 days to complete.  Not bad.  I wasn’t rushing, just enjoyed myself. I did spend too much time working on it yesterday, but that was because I knew how close I was to the end, and it gets me all riled up! 😉
I’m not feeling great today, so I won’t be moving it off the board until tomorrow. I’m sure we’ll be able to put it on it’s cardboard bed safely, but I won’t feel better until it’s done.
I’m loving the way this section in particular looks; the colors, the fireflies, everything just works together and I think it looks amazing. I know no one really cares that much except for me, but it looks great and I’m proud and I can’t wait to get going on the next section!
Up next, Fantasia. You can see why I think it’s going to be the hardest section. Only 1 character, Mickey. The rest is just twinklies, white foam, blues, browns and black. If it were a smaller puzzle, it would still be difficult, but being over 4000 pieces you can imagine just how many pieces are extremely similar in color and shape. Yikes!
Also, I have to say I’m a teeny bit disappointed in the filmstrip for this one. You can’t tell from the picture, but almost every cell is from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Fantasia had so many great parts to it, why not include some of them? The dance of the hours, with the ballerina ostriches, elephants, hippopotamuses and alligators. Â Night on Bald Mountain with the devil and evil spirits, who are all sent back to hell when dawn comes and you hear the Ave Maria. Or the Pastoral Symphony with the centaurs and “centaurettes” and cupids and Zeus. So many great scenes to choose from, why not at least put some of them in the filmstrip? Just my personal opinion of course.
My Jigsaw Journal 