Pop Culture

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Pop Culture by Charlie Girard – White Mountain – 1000 pieces

Ah…collages. I love them so much. I’ve said many many times why I like them, but reasoning aside they just make me happy when I assemble them. End of story.

White Mountain has the best catalog of collage puzzles around in my opinion. They have so many that it’s difficult for me to whittle down which ones I want. They’re not always the best quality – I’ve had problems with before with twinsy pieces still connected, too tight fit, and fuzzy images. Most of the time though, there aren’t major problems with the puzzles and I enjoy working with them.

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Any NCIS fans out there? It’s Ducky! I’m a little young to have watched The Man From U.N.C.L.E. on television, but I know that the actor who plays Ducky on NCIS (David McCallum) was a heart-throb back in the day because of that show. That makes me laugh for some reason. 😉

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MAD Magazine and Gumby – love them! I had a subscription back in ye olden times when people actually got magazines in the mail and read them. (It’s sort of like a papery kind of blog – if you’re a young’un and not clear on what magazines were) I’ve always been a fan of satire, improv, and standup comedy, even when I was younger. I think I had more comedy albums than musical ones; which might be a clue why this part of the puzzle made the smile. 😀

Weekend Plans?

Hubby brought me home a Springbok puzzle from this years Masters Golf Tournament – an image of the clubhouse. Not my ideal puzzle image, but he’d like to glue and hang it when I’m done so I’ll be assembling it regardless of whether or not I love it. I’m an awesome wife. ☺

Here’s the puzzle I’ll be doing, unless I chicken out…

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What are your weekend puzzle plans? Something fun?

 

 

Koala

Koala
Koala – CraZart – 100 pieces

More fun than I thought. Thinner pieces and difficult image, but entertaining nonetheless. Kids puzzles make my happy – I’m still able to puzzle when I’m not feeling well, but it isn’t the commitment of a 1000 piece puzzle that might take days.

These days my anxiety is getting the better of me and although I want to work on my puzzles some days being able to get out bed and actually get to it is extremely difficult.

Puzzle Posse

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Mom’s coming over today to puzzle with me, we haven’t put a puzzle together in weeks! I’m very excited! It’s a 400 piece wooden puzzle that hubby bought me, so I’m not sure if we’ll get it finished or not but at least we’ll be able to spend time together doing one of the things we love. ❤

Good thing too, I’m running out of puzzles to post!

Lighthouse

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Lighthouse – Ravensburger 3D – 216 pieces

Mom found this 3D puzzle at the thrift store, unfortunately it was missing not only 7 pieces it was also missing the top of the lighthouse with the lights in it. It was kind of a bummer all around, but those are the chances we take. 😉

The tube shape was difficult to work with, I found it much more difficult than working with an orb shape…

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Once I got one side connected properly it would pop out the opposite side, so very annoying! I much prefer regular jigsaw puzzles laid flat on the board.

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Seven missing pieces on the top section – I think they must be wherever the very top of the lighthouse is. 😦

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This is what it should look like when completed. I think I really would have enjoyed seeing the lights. Bummer.