This was an easy to medium assembly, and fun to look at older ads from Coke. My dad has been a Coca Cola man all his life so there’s always been Coke in the house. It sorta reminded me of my childhood.
Aquarius is a puzzle company I hadn’t heard of or assembled before.  Pretty good quality if you ask me. Sturdy pieces, excellent image quality, really nice fit. Aquarius has some cool puzzles to choose from, I may be ordering more once I get this 40,000 piece monkey off my back. 🙂
The Few And The Proud by Ray Simon – Sunsout – 1000 pieces
I can finally put this puzzle on the blog, because I assembled, glued and framed it for my husband for Christmas. My marine likes it very much, or he’s being nice and saying that he does like an intelligent man!
I have to say I’m not a fan of Sunsout puzzles, this puzzle especially. The cut didn’t seem to be completely through the cardboard because there were “hanging chads” on every piece which got in the way a lot of the time and had to be removed. Also I am not a fan of puzzles that you have to really push hard to get the pieces together. To me it feels like if I have to work this hard it probably doesn’t fit. Just my personal preference. And this puzzle was DARK. Very dark. I knew that when I ordered it, but when you add in the way you have to work to get the pieces together it was a chore to finish the puzzle.
If it hadn’t been a gift I most likely wouldn’t have finished it. I had done Sunsout puzzles before and knew it wouldn’t be the most enjoyable assembly, but they were the only company with this image and I really wanted to do this puzzle for my husband. So I whined and complained but I got it done and it really does like quite nice framed. Hubby likes it, so it was all worth it. 🙂
I will add, though, that we have found a few Sunsout puzzles at the thrift store, and sometimes the quality of the pieces is quite good. We have a 1500 piece Sunsout puzzle where the pieces seem to fit more normally and the quality of the cut seems 100% better. I guess for me I would only purchase this brand if I could see the actual pieces and how they fit together first. So it’ll likely be only from thrift stores that I get Sunsout. Again, just my personal opinion.
Glorious Vintage by Aimee Stewart – Ravensburger – 1000 pieces
Another Aimee Stewart, cause it’s just gorgeous!  Ravensburger really is my favorite brand of puzzle. Always a pleasure with such wonderful feeling thick pieces and gorgeous colors.
This puzzle was way more difficult than I thought, and took me longer than the average 1000 piece.  Still, I’m stubborn as anything and the end result is beautiful. Aimee Stewart’s shelf puzzles are all just stunning, I believe I own them all and only have 1 left to assemble. To be honest, I didn’t really look closely at this one before I purchased it. I saw it was an Aimee Stewart shelf by Ravensburger, loved the colors and ordered it. When it arrived I was a little shocked that it was about wine, and shocked that I ordered a puzzle without knowing the subject of it!
Excellent quality pieces, and piece fit; just an all around fun puzzle to assemble even with the extra challenge of all the green areas.
I Love Great Britain by Mike Jupp – Gibson – 1000 pieces
My first Gibson puzzle.  If I hadn’t found the Jigsaw Junkies website I would probably not even know about some of these puzzle companies.  The brand comparison on that site gave me confidence to try new companies I hadn’t before, because I knew what kind of quality I would be getting.
I enjoyed the Gibson brand which is another puzzle with a waxy finish. The pieces are thick and sturdy, although there are a lot of the 2 prong 2 hole pieces. Â It would be nice to have a few more piece shapes to work with. The image and colors were sharp and bright, and the artwork by Mike Jupp is so fun!
I would be careful if you’re going to get a Gibson puzzle and try to choose an image that doesn’t have too much sameness. Â There were a couple times even in this busy puzzle where the pieces fit but were not in the correct place. Other than that I like this brand very much!
Television History – White Mountain Puzzles – 1000 pieces
Another collage and thrift store purchase. Â You just can’t beat a 1000 piece puzzle for 99 cents! Almost all of the ones we find are all complete as well. Â Sometimes we find the odd stinker with one or more pieces missing. Â Most of the time though, they are all there and sometimes we even get ones who already have the edge pieces sorted. Bonus!!
This was an easy assembly, and it was fun to figure out who everyone is and to reminisce about TV shows I watched as a child and even shows I’ve watched as an adult.
As it’s an artist’s rendering and not actual pictures sometimes it’s difficult to recognize who someone is. Fortunately there is a page on the White Mountain website where you can check the charts and see who is who. We had almost every one correct. There’s even Bill and the conductor from Schoolhouse Rock! Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?
My Jigsaw Journal 