Saturday 01-28-17 70% Done!

On January 28, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles, World's Largest Puzzle Progress4 Comments

70% complete! Woooooo hooooooo!! This was the section I was dreading the most and it’s all done! Of course I’m posting this before it’s been taken off the board and put away for safekeeping. Yikes. Think good thoughts for the transfer on Monday!

Having said that I was dreading this section the most, I must admit that it wasn’t as difficult as I had assumed it would be. To be perfectly honest, Peter Pan was more difficult for me. It had many more dark pieces with nothing else on them to show where they would go. In Fantasia almost every piece has something else on it to help with placement – foam, water spray, bubbles, etc. It wasn’t nearly as difficult as I believed, I’m just no judge of these things apparently. It only took 15 days to complete, not too shabby!

Ravensburger got the replacement section to me with perfect timing, right when I finished the The Little Mermaid! When I started sorting the Fantasia section that came in the box back in October, I found a mangled piece with part of the front (picture) missing. Just one piece, and to be honest in a 40,000 piece puzzle who really would have seen it? I would have! Ravensburger was great about sending me a replacement section, although I did have to wait until it was actually available for sale in the United States. (I bought the puzzle last September from Germany, and it wasn’t technically available for sale in the US until after the first of the year). So it arrived precisely when needed – Thanks again Ravensburger! That’s why you’re my favorite puzzle company. 🙂

So now there are only 3 sections left to complete, and the next one up is The Lion King. Doesn’t it look like fun?

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In this image the blue around the edges seems almost purple, that’s not the actual color. Otherwise, it looks great! I’m looking forward to the 2 sides with filmstrip, and only 2 sides with twinklies. I’m hoping the animals aren’t too difficult to distinguish from one another and are fun to assemble as well.

I’m excited to get going on it, but it won’t be until Tuesday at the earliest. I plan on having it sorted by Monday evening though, so I will be ready as soon as Fantasia comes off the board!

Beauty Salon

On January 23, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw PuzzlesLeave a comment

Another puzzle I won’t show the whole picture of, I don’t want to ruin it for anyone who hasn’t done the puzzle yet, or might want to buy it. It’s more fun to figure it out yourself!

I absolutely love the quality of Jumbo puzzles, the waxy feel of the pieces, the matte finish, the way the pieces fit together, everything!! They’re one of the best there is, in my opinion. I still have a stack of Wasgij puzzles in my closet, about 5 feet high that still need to be assembled. I’ll get back to my regular puzzles when I’m done with the giant Disney puzzle I’m working on, and the Wasgij’s will most likely be the first ones I’m heading for.

The Beauty Salon was a fun puzzle to assemble, I love the artwork and humor of Graham Thompson. His puzzles always have so much detail in them, and there is always something funny in the background as well as the foreground. This was just a great puzzle overall – great artwork, great quality, great fun!!

Cookbooks

On January 21, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles2 Comments

This puzzle was sooooo much fun for me! Lots of words to assemble – love it! A collage – too fun! Cookbooks – I love a good cookbook! (I know I’m weird, but I’m adorable and amusing so it’s ok) 🙂

My daughter got this for my mom. She loves cookbooks even more than I do, I would say she probably has a couple hundred of them at least. 😮 She even has a couple of the cookbooks in the puzzle, and so do I! She loved it, and I assembled it when she was done.

It’s one of the puzzles that I would definitely do over again. I enjoyed looking at the names of the cookbooks and the pictures on the covers were cute, funny, beautiful and sometimes very odd. I love that stuff! This is a great puzzle that I definitely recommend.

United Plates of America

On January 19, 2017January 30, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles, Thrift Store PuzzlesLeave a comment

This was a really fun puzzle for me. It was a thrift store purchase and well worth the 99 cents!

It’s by Bits and Pieces which seems like hit or miss quality to me. I’ve had great puzzles from them and really bad puzzles. So I guess I put them in the thrift store only category along with Sunsout; I have to be able to see and feel the pieces before I will purchase them. This puzzle I had no problem with the quality at all. You can see the pieces fit together well, the piece shape isn’t glaringly obvious in the finished puzzle and the image quality is very good.

Even with all the blue and the stripes of the flag it was only about medium difficulty, and wasn’t tedious for me at all. It was fun to assemble and I would definitely recommend it!

Can You See What I See?

On January 16, 2017January 30, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles, Thrift Store PuzzlesLeave a comment

Although I didn’t care much for the quality of this puzzle, the image was quite a challenge. An I Spy puzzle with randomness everywhere!

For some insane reason I decided that I was going to assemble this puzzle without the aid of looking at the picture on the box. I have no idea why I did that, but I did! Hubby helped me a lot with this puzzle and it took us 4 or 5 nights to get it done. It would have been much easier and taken much less time if I had used the box for reference, but I was stubborn and wanted to do it all with no help.

It took much longer than normal for a 1000 piece puzzle, but the extra challenge of having no reference made it feel like a real accomplishment when it was finished.

Give yourself a challenge every once in a while, it’s fun and you have no idea how proud you’ll be once you’ve accomplished it!