March 17, 2017 – My Jigsaw Journal

Beer Caps by Charlie Girard – White Mountain – 550 pieces

Mom and I finished this in an afternoon while visiting. She didn’t think she was going to like it, but once we got going she was enjoying it. After a while we were doing the same stuff we always do when we’re working on a puzzle together and cracking each other up. Fun puzzle (although neither of us are beer drinkers) – and perfect for St. Patrick’s Day! 🙂

This was the first 550 piece White Mountain puzzle I’ve done, and I was surprised that the pieces were random cut instead of grid cut. I don’t have anything to compare it to so I’m not sure if that is usual for the smaller piece count puzzles or not. It made the puzzle a little more of a challenge, but it was still very entertaining.

My only problem with this puzzle was that the image on the box wasn’t correct. It was just a small deviation, but one that confused us at first. The second beer cap in the bottom row is red in the actual puzzle, but black on the box. It was baffling for a minute before we figured out what was wrong.

Otherwise the quality of the puzzle was quite good, I’ve never had a problem with a White Mountain product. This one was no exception, and was great fun – White Mountain has the best collage puzzles!

It’s upside down, but that was how I was working on it today, so that’s how it was photographed. I tried flipping the picture, but the camera was at an angle and it looks really weird right side up. I’ve said it before, Ansel Adams I am not!

Filled in all the dark blue today, so the top of the puzzle is done. There’s still plenty left to do – including finding the 4 pieces of the filmstrip that I didn’t sort properly. That is so frustrating! I try to be careful when I’m sorting and make sure everything is where it should be, but not once have I gotten them all the first time. You would think the images in the filmstrip would be easy to sort, and for the most part they are; but there are always a few pieces that don’t look like filmstrip at all and end up sorted with a whole other section. I remember when I was working on Cinderella there were 2 pieces of the coach that didn’t get put in until almost the very end because they were sorted into the twinklies. Frustrating!

I did get the twinklies sorted by shape today, so tomorrow I will begin working on those. It’s probably the least fun part of this puzzle to do, but in the end it looks awesome and you feel like you’ve accomplished something.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! Please party and puzzle responsibly 😉