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Vintage Halloween In Progress…

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Vintage Halloween by Finchley Paper Arts – Bits and Pieces – 500 pieces

The pieces were sorted yesterday and I starting assembling this morning, and although I love the image it seems as though perhaps it’s going to be a little challenging. The pieces are predominantly almost triangular in shape and my brain doesn’t seem to be grasping the way everything goes together just yet. I’ve had two cups of coffee so far, you’d think the gray cells would be working by now!

The shapes are so different from what I’m used to that even with the obvious border image I missed two edge pieces on my initial sort. That almost never happens. With the way that I sort it’s usually never a problem to get all the edges the first time, and I was surprised to find that two were missing. A quick look through the trays helped me find the two stragglers before the picture was taken, but it reinforced that I’ve got to get my head around the way these pieces go together and get used to the triangular shapes.

I do realize it’s only August, but with the puzzles that have already been put together and are waiting to be posted it is actually time to start putting together Halloween images; by the time they’re up in the queue it’ll be October.

Since Halloween is my favorite holiday, I’m looking forward to going through my puzzles yet to be assembled and finding any spooky images that need to be put together. Hopefully there are more than one or two, but I’m not certain how many there could be. 🦇

Clue

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Clue – Spin Master – 1000 pieces

I enjoyed this assembly, but was underwhelmed with the quality of the puzzle itself. The image is a wonderful collage of cards and pieces from the game and made for a fun afternoon of puzzling; but I was hoping with all the hype surrounding these board game puzzles that they’d be great quality. Perhaps managing my expectations would have been a good idea before I started.

In general, the quality was fair/good; I was hoping for better. The chipboard was quite thin, but relatively sturdy although there were still plenty of bent tabs. The image reproduction was very good, but with a shiny finish that made for a somewhat difficult time underneath the artificial lights in my puzzle room. There were a very good variety of piece shapes and the fit was somewhat loose.

I liked that it looked as though this were a picture of an actual board game, with the crease in the middle where it gets folded to fit into the box.

LOVE the doily in the corner and the pistol too. It was a fun image to put together, and not as difficult as I thought it would be; it was finished the same day I started.

If nothing else this puzzle had me watching the movie Clue again, it’s a family favorite and most of us can toss out quite a few quotes when the moment is right. Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Aileen Brennan and the entire lineup is just about as perfect a cast as you can get in my opinion. Hubby, my youngest son and I watched it together the night before I started the assembly and we all had a great time.

The images of the characters in the game just didn’t seem right to me; Miss Scarlet is supposed to look like Lesley Ann Warren, and Mr. Green should look like Michael McKean. I know the game came first, but the characters to me will always be the actors from the movie. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration if I told you I’ve seen it at least twenty times. (When I said the movie is a family favorite I wasn’t kidding 😊) It’s probably been at least 25 years or more since I’ve played the actual game, but I’ve seen the movie much more often – so those are the characters I think of when you say their names.

Tiki Mask Montage

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Tiki Mask Montage – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

My daughter picked out this puzzle, and she did a fantastic job. This was so much more entertaining than anticipated, and more than once I found myself sitting in the bathroom just so I could add a few more pieces to the puzzle.

The bright colors, the different masks – it was all thoroughly enjoyable from the first edge pieces to the final piece in the middle. Why on Earth did I wait so long to get this one done?

I sure hope you all are enjoying reading about these puzzles, because they are still loads of fun for me to assemble and I don’t see myself stopping my subscription anytime soon. Every month I receive two more puzzles – they aren’t always images that I might pick out myself, but usually they’re fun to assemble and I’m always proud of myself whenever we get one done.

This particular puzzle did make me a little bit sad though, once it was finished. There were no more pieces left to add and I was sorry it was over. 😢

Coronium In Progress…

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Coronium by Nadieh Bremer – Artifact – 172 pieces

After finishing my puzzle yesterday my son chose the next puzzle for me – he picked this gorgeous wooden puzzle by Artifact. I put a few pieces out on the board, but haven’t really gotten into the actual assembly yet.

I’m procrastinating writing up all the posts for the puzzles we did on vacation (not to mention the ones I’ve completed since we returned home) – and that’s not good for my mental health. If I’m not feeling like writing that leads to laying in bed and not writing or puzzling at all. And we all know where that leads. It’s not good. At all.

So before I get started on my beautiful wooden puzzle I’ve got to at the very least get all these pictures of puzzles off of my phone and into some drafts. Once that’s done I’ll feel better about getting started on my new puzzle.

Happy puzzling today my friends! 💚🧩

Elizabeth’s Garden

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Elizabeth’s Garden by Charles Wysocki – Buffalo – 300 pieces

It’s been a while since I’ve assembled a puzzle with a Wysocki image. I love the symmetry in his paintings, and the Americana feel – and as usual this was a beautiful image and a very good quality puzzle.

It went together very quickly; I sorted the puzzle and assembled the border the night before and then it didn’t take long at all in the morning to put everything in it’s place. Sometimes it’s nice to do something not so challenging – at least it is for me.

Unfortunately my brain is mush today and I can’t think of a thing to say about this puzzle. There was nothing wrong with it, and I enjoyed the assembly; but I seem to be unable to form coherent sentences this morning.

My apologies.