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Tiered Treats

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Tiered Treats by Aimee Stewart – Wentworth – 210 pieces

A shaped wooden puzzle with an image by Aimee Stewart – yes please! This was much more difficult than I thought it would be, but that didn’t matter one bit because I enjoyed this puzzle from the first piece to the last. 💚🧩

Interestingly this puzzle was easiest at the top with the brightly colored macarons; the cupcakes, fruit and mille feuille in the middle tier were a little bit more challenging, but the bottom tier with the sandwiches was not easy at all. Still, it was fun to work from the top down – that isn’t something I usually do.

*Mille feuille are the beautiful layered treats on the right side of the middle layer – it means “thousand sheets” and is made from puff pastry and usually filled with a vanilla pastry cream and topped with vanilla and chocolate icing. I’ve never had one, but I’ve watched enough of The Great British Baking Show to know what they are. They sound amazing!

Aren’t these fabulous tea time whimsies? Bread, sandwiches, cakes, cookies, teapots, fruit – I love them!

This puzzle had excellent quality and stunning image reproduction, I absolutely adored this assembly. There’s another shaped Aimee Stewart from Wentworth on the to-do shelf, and I’m very much looking forward to it. 😍

Tiered Treats In Progress…

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Tiered Treats by Aimee Stewart – Wentworth – 210 pieces

My son picked out a wooden puzzle for me to assemble next, and I’m having lots of fun already. How would it not be fun? It’s an Aimee Stewart image!

It’s a shaped puzzle, so the edges aren’t where I’m starting; obviously I started with the blueberries. I don’t have the image near the board to look at; usually when assembling a wooden puzzle I put the image away so the assembly lasts longer. I like to fully enjoy working on a wooden puzzle and focus on nothing but the pieces and colors. 🧩💚

Because I don’t have the image close at hand I pulled all the blueberry pieces thinking they would all be in one section, but it looks as if I was wrong, they seem to be everywhere.

That’s ok though, it’ll all fit together in the end.

Adoration of the Magi

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Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi – Artifact – 208 pieces

This was the very first wooden puzzle I sent to my sister-in-law and her family, and after having assembled it – yikes. It was quite difficult! I had no idea, apparently I need to pay more attention and make sure the puzzles I gift them aren’t too challenging, I wouldn’t want them to get frustrated and give up.

This Christmas image has all the requisite holiday whimsy pieces; angels, the star, all the characters for the nativity – even the words “Gloria In Excelsis Deo” on a banner.

The pieces make up the nativity scene that you can see from the back as well. What wonderfully creative puzzle designers they have at Artifact!

There were three holes built into the puzzle to hold up the three pieces with no coloring at all (the three wise men and their transportation) – if there’s an industry term for the stand-up pieces I don’t know what it is. Other than very cool and amazing looking!

Hubby, his sister and her husband were all working on it with me so I had to take a picture. I don’t know when we all got so old looking, but we sure don’t act old – that’s for sure. 😉

Tea Bath

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Tea Bath by Stasia Burrington – Artifact – 210 pieces

This is another of the very cute puzzles brought to my attention by my Deputy Chief Puzzle Enabler – Penny (aka Puzzle Momma). I mean, look how adorable this image is, how in the world I am supposed to be able to resist that?

The answer is that I cannot. I am weak, and easily swayed by a pretty “face” on the top of a puzzle box. 😍

We weren’t sure what some of the whimsy pieces (mostly the people working out) had to do with the image, but Artifact’s website says that the puzzle is full of “me-time” and grooming themed whimsies. I’m sure for many people exercising is a way to make time for yourself, I just didn’t think of that because my only exercise is half a sit-up in the morning when I wake up. 😁

We did notice in the completed puzzle some of the grooming going on though…

You can see in the lower left corner that there are two monkeys in the process of grooming each other, and two cats to their right maybe just having some meow time. 🐒🐈

We’re not sure why, but my brother-in-law puzzled with us on this one; he hadn’t seemed very interested in helping with any of the previous puzzles so we were pleasantly surprised that he wanted to join in. At the beginning all four of us were working together, until my husband got tired and decided he needed some me time with his pillow.

My poor brother-in-law was bamboozled by the border though; he decided early on that the border was his responsibility. The image on the box made it look as though the border was a “normal” one, but it was a little tricky at the top. Let’s just say he was not amused. (My sis and I thought it was hilarious 🤣) He kept saying that there had to be pieces missing, and there weren’t enough edges! I told him sometimes they trick you and it may not be straight all the way around, but he just kept repeating that there weren’t enough pieces. There was a lot of giggling going on, quietly, so we didn’t upset him. It still makes me smile just thinking about it. Poor guy. 😁

Another beautifully made Artifact puzzle, and one that sis fell in love with while we were assembling it. I wasn’t planning on leaving it with her, but she must have said “This puzzle is so much fun!” at least 20 times while we were working on it. She loved the image and the unique pieces, and had such a good time putting it together that I decided pretty quickly it would be in a very loving home and well cared for if it were in her hands.

Hubby took this picture as he was on his way to bed. I’m on the right, and my SIL is in the middle with her hubs on the left. Ain’t we an adorable group of “seniors” working on our jigsaw puzzle?