Tag: 1000 pieces

Get Your Stitch Together In Progress…

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Get Your Stitch Together – What The Puzzles – 1000 pieces

This puzzle has only just gotten started, but I’m already having the loveliest time with it! First of all, my darling daughter came over to spend time with me yesterday on Mother’s Day, and she helped me put the edges together. We haven’t worked on a puzzle together in what seems like forever and it made my heart happy. Secondly, my sweet puzzle pal Penny sent me this puzzle (and one other) just because she’s an awesome friend. And last but not least, this is a new-to-me brand, and it seems to be quite good quality – which is always a great thing to discover!

I’ll have to be careful when I write up the post for the completed puzzle though, it is full of cuss words, rude language, and in general is extremely R-rated. As the wife of a retired Marine there isn’t a swear word I haven’t heard or seen before, and not much can shock me. To have such bad language and sometimes awful things cross-stitched into little samplers, however, I found absolutely hilarious. I laughed so hard when I saw the package, you have no idea! 🤣 (Of course that’s the reason for the big question mark in the “what’s on my board” section of the homepage too – I don’t wanna put a picture of the puzzle where I can’t give fair warning first to allow anyone to opt out of it if they’d prefer.)

The pieces are on the thinner side, but are extremely sturdy – and the fit is exceptional. I’m very much looking forward to working on this puzzle some more!

Dark Academia In Progress…

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Dark Academia – Re-marks – 1000 pieces

I’ve started another collage, this is another book covers collage from Re-marks and I can already tell that it is going to be extremely entertaining to assemble!

Usually there are many books from these types of collages that I have read, this time there’s only one – it shocked me. You may be surprised to find that I consider my self relatively intelligent and well read but in this collage the only book shown that I’ve read is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Does that make a uncultured swine? Perhaps. I don’t really care; I’m past the age of giving a crap what other people think of me and doing things because someone else thinks I should. A few of the books look interesting, but at the moment I’m not going out of my way to stock up on any of them. For me the draw here was the image of the book covers themselves, not to get a suggested reading list. It just looks like a fun puzzle and that’s it.

So far it’s been great. The initial sorting didn’t seem to take forever, I pulled the pieces for a dozen or so books that were easy to find, and got all the edges on the first try. Excellent progress so far. 😎

Vintage Matchboxes

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Vintage Matchboxes – Colorcraft Puzzles – 1000 pieces

*This is the last puzzle from 2024, I promise! Since it sat on my puzzle board for just over two years I am CERTAIN it’s the last one; we had to dust it off just to take a picture. Ick.*

Sorry there aren’t any close up pictures of this one, I actually did take them, but they were awful. It’ll get better, I just have to get my blogging sea legs back.

As per usual there are no memories of this assembly. Colorcraft Puzzles are about mid-range in puzzle quality if memory serves; the fit and image quality are good, the finish is a bit shiny and can cause glare under indoor lights, the boxes are quite small for 1000 pieces and JUST fit all the pieces.

It’s a cool image and my hope is that it was entertaining to put together. But if it wasn’t, I don’t remember so it’s all good. 😉

Vintage Matchboxes In Progress…

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Vintage Matchboxes by Karen Romanko – Colorcraft Puzzles – 1000 pieces

This puzzle was started a few days ago, but it seems to be going quite slowly. The picture above is only one corner of the puzzle, but I’m afraid a picture of the whole thing wouldn’t look like much as it’s only going together one matchbox at a time and everything is spread out all over.

At this particular moment I’m working on all the boxes with either blue or green in them – slow work indeed!

In addition, there’s something about the finish on this puzzle that likes to stick to my arms; so I’ve taken to covering the bottom of the puzzle with fabric when I’m not working there so that I can work on the rest of the puzzle (or the blog) without upending the whole thing when I take my arms away from the table.

Still, I’m enjoying this one even though it’s only going together bit by tiny bit. That’s what matters. 😊

I Love Music

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I Love Music by Charlie Girard – White Mountain – 1000 pieces

This was a bright and beautiful collage image that was lots of fun to assemble. And as an added bonus I was happy to work with the new finish that White Mountain used, I liked it very much.

This puzzle had very good quality for this brand. Sometimes it can be hit or miss, but I put up with little annoyances because they have such a great catalog of collages – and my readers know that they are my puzzle happy place. It had a variety of piece shapes, relatively thick chipboard, a very good fit, a lovely matte finish, and good image reproduction. Many of the posters seemed blurry, but I think that may be because they used the old images which weren’t the sharpest. All in all it was the nicest White Mountain puzzle I’ve done in quite a while.

Love the colors and the look of this one – and the “address” is funny to me. Max Yasgur’s farm. I was one year old in 1969, so I definitely do not remember Woodstock.

This concert was twenty years earlier, in 1949 – when my mom was just under two years old! The difference between Billie Holiday’s music and the music of the sixties was VAST.

There were so many letters and words in this image that, other than the heart, the big letters were one of the last bits to be put together. I enjoyed it much more than anticipated though, and that’s always a bonus in my book.

Does this look like a puzzle you’d enjoy? It’s definitely recommended!