March 3, 2018 – My Jigsaw Journal

21727970_1565108606866161_409047502984685597_n — World Landmarks by Adrian Chesterman – Educa – 42000 pieces

I’ve been checking every few weeks, and I just found this giant of a puzzle for sale in the United States! If you’ve been looking for this, I’ve found it on Amazon for quite a reasonable price with free shipping!

I’d love to see this in person and look at how the pieces fit together, but I don’t know if that’s realistic unless I purchase it for myself. I’m not planning on buying it, but I’d love to hear from anyone who has. Adrian Chesterman’s work is always bright and colorful and incredibly detailed – I’d be thrilled to see this one up close.

Planning on attempting this puzzle? I wish you luck, and I’ll be cheering you on!

Ballet Lesson – Ravensburger – 100 pieces

This is the second Ravensburger puzzle with this title I’ve assembled, the first was only 35 pieces and not nearly as beautiful as this one. This puzzle is a lovely image enhanced with glitter – I loves me some glitter! How disappointing that it was missing a piece. 😦

The colors in this image are so pretty, and with the added fun of glitter it’s just an all around beautiful puzzle. Absent piece aside, the quality was excellent and to my surprise there wasn’t a ton of glitter loose in the box. A lot of times with a glitter puzzle much of it comes off and ends up in a pile underneath the pieces, not so with this puzzle. Yet another reason Ravensburger puzzles are my absolute favorite. I was hoping it would be complete so we could pass it on, but it’s glaringly obvious that a piece has escaped.

Missing pieces are the chance you take when you purchase puzzles used. I would say probably 90-95% of the puzzles we get from thrift stores are complete, and that’s a pretty good average. Sure, it’s a little disappointing when you find a missing piece, but you still got to assemble a puzzle. Well, most of it anyway. 😉