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Made With Love

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Made With Love – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

I started this little beauty before we left on our vacation, and our daughter finished it up while we were gone – a joint effort! I love all the crafts and sewing supplies in this image, it definitely reminds me of my mom. She made everything with love. 💖

My mother was amazing in the craft department; she sewed, knitted, crocheted, cross-stitched, did beadwork, hook rugs, and just about any other craft you can think of. My father had a lot to deal with when she got really involved with a certain craft – the hoarding of supplies started right away! Luckily for him it was a while before the internet made all her supplies readily available, otherwise we might have had to dig them both out of the house with a shovel.

This image absolutely had me going down memory lane, it’s a beautiful little puzzle. 💟

Color Garden

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Color Garden – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

This puzzle has an awesome image with blocks of color that I very much enjoyed assembling. This is the companion puzzle to Abstract Love that I posted about previously – there is a line drawing on the back of this one as well for you to color in with the paints provided in the subscription box for that month.

Again, for me, choosing which colors to put where and making certain that I didn’t mess anything up would have been stressful for me – so I chose to only assemble the puzzle.

If you were unsure about whether or not you placed a piece correctly on the front you could also use the line drawing on the back to make sure you had it right; which is handy when assembling the puzzle in a place with less than optimal lighting. 🛀

With my daughter really getting into these mini puzzles and working on them whenever she’s here they’ve been going rather quickly; at this rate I’ll be running out of them before too long – even with my subscription. That’s alright, we can always get more. I love that she wants to help me with them. 💛

Casual Friday

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Casual Friday – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

Loved this puzzle – and as an added bonus – I was helped along by both my daughter and my hubby! Hubs put together the border (part of it was wrong but that’s ok, I put it right eventually); and my daughter put together the dark blue shirt. I know that’s only a few pieces, but it counts and I loved that she helped. She also helped me choose this puzzle to assemble before we started, it was her favorite of all the MicroPuzzles here to choose from.

This would be a great puzzle in a larger piece count, the colors and patterns on each shirt were quite fun to sort out and put together.

My brain isn’t working this morning, so there’s isn’t much more I can think of to say about this little puzzle – other than that I still love working with the little pieces, and there’s something so satisfying about completing a MicroPuzzle for me.

Abstract Love

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Abstract Love – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

The blocks and shapes of color in this image made for such a fun assembly – absolutely loved this one! As an added bonus my daughter helped me finish this one when she came to spend some time with me following my surgery, puzzling with my loved ones always makes me happy. 💕

I was about halfway through the assembly before I realized that the image spells out “love” in an abstract way – well done Captain Obvious. Sigh.

This is one of the puzzles that came in my subscription box from MicroPuzzles in the summer of last year, Both puzzles are double-sided, and the reverse side is a line drawing of the color image on the front. The surprise gift in the box was a small set of paints, two small paintbrushes, and an easel to display your artwork once it’s been painted. So fun!

I didn’t paint anything, as you can see. I’m too much of a perfectionist, and deciding what color goes where and making sure I didn’t mess things up would be too much stress for me. My decision was to just enjoy the puzzle itself and forego the painting.

These mini puzzles are quite small, in this review of Stained Glass Tree you can see how small they are with something next to the completed puzzle for reference. I know that these little ones aren’t for everyone, but if they look like something you might enjoy they are highly recommended.

Even with my aging eyes I can still see well enough to work with these little pieces, and there’s something about putting the small puzzles together that is so satisfying. Can’t wait for this month’s subscription box to see what’s next!

In Progress…

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I’ve got a few puzzles going at the moment…

Color Garden – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

This is one of my “bathroom puzzles” in progress. The lighting in this picture doesn’t do it justice; it’s an excellent image that I’m truly enjoying working on even if it’s only just a few pieces at a time.

Kuala Lumpur by Harimao Lee – Blanc Puzzles – 300 pieces

This is the puzzle on my board right now. Yesterday was a terrible pain day and I basically didn’t get out of bed until early this morning to update this post – so this puzzle sat alone and unloved all day. I thought it would be finished by now, but it looks like it won’t be completely assembled until perhaps later today or maybe even tomorrow. It’s been pretty fun so far, but the easy part is over and now all that’s left is the more difficult section at the top, we’ll see how it goes.

Flower Bee – Crafthub – 146 pieces

This horrid little puzzle is something I’m almost regretting purchasing in the first place, but at the same time I’m glad I gave it a shot. At the very least I can warn others not to purchase any of these terrible quality things.

In the beginning it was being assembled in one of my trays (in bed) but I had to move it to one corner of my fabric-covered board – because the pieces do not connect together well or at all, and the slightest touch will disrupt everything. I was constantly having to reposition pieces that moved around because they were accidentally brushed with my arm or merely by trying to connect another piece. The fabric makes it a little less likely that pieces come apart with an accidental touch.

I bought this wooden puzzle because it was – no joke – $7.99. Here’s what I’ll say about that…you get what you pay for and I should have known better. To say I’m disappointed in the quality would be a gross understatement; I’m disgusted with myself for buying it and am finding the assembly oddly engrossing as well as extremely frustrating. But, as usual, I’ve got a bee in my bonnet (no pun intended) about finishing this one. You’ll be hearing plenty from me when I post about the puzzle once it’s complete. I have MUCH to say about it. 🤬

I’m hoping to have all three finished before we leave for our vacation on Thursday. It’s always good to come to home to an empty board; we might find a fun looking puzzle or two while we we’re out and I might want to get to assembling it right away when we return. 😎

So those are the puzzles in various states of assembly right now at my house. What are you working on?