Tag: 40 pieces

Sailing to the Tunes

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Sailing to the Tunes by Soma Folk Art – Wentworth Wooden Puzzles – 40 pieces

This gorgeous image was entertaining to put together, but I was wishing I had gotten this one in a larger piece count; the colors were beautiful, it’s just stunning – but it was over too quickly! I haven’t worked a Soma Folk Art image before and after looking them up I would love to do more. The artwork is so bright, colorful, and not what we usually see for jigsaw puzzle images. Love it!

You all know how I feel about Wentworth; I’ve done well over a hundred of their puzzles – small, big, shaped, easy, difficult, ones with tessellating pieces, etc. If you want to hear about their quality, please look up any of my other posts about a Wentworth puzzle because honestly after spending four days in the hospital with my cranky, elderly father I’m too exhausted to type up too much about this puzzle right now. Apologies.

This speckled counter was the only place available to work any puzzles in dad’s room, and it doesn’t make the best backdrop for showing these whimsy pieces. Apologies again. Loved these whimsies. Namaste. 🙏

*No, my dad isn’t back in the hospital. I wrote this up when I assembled the puzzle, back in June.*

Balloon World

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Balloon World by Royce B. McClure – Wentworth – 40 pieces

Looking back through the blog I see that it’s been six years since I’ve completed a puzzle with an image by Royce B. McClure. Oh my! His artwork is always so colorful and imaginative, it’s no wonder there are so many puzzles with his images on them; they’re so fun to put together.

This isn’t an image I would normally choose in a larger piece count, but I enjoyed it on this mini puzzle very much. On a larger puzzle this might be quite a challenge!

I don’t remember any other Wentworth puzzle that I’ve done that had whimsies that were all the same like these; but it’s always nice when the figures they choose are perfect for the image.

My (ever dwindling) collection of mini puzzles are certainly helping me out with building up my queue again, they don’t take much time at all and when I’m in need of a puzzle to post it’s easy to put one of them together quickly.

Plus, they’re great quality puzzles that are always entertaining; perfect to make this puzzle geek’s heart go pitter patter. 💓

Balloon World In Progress…

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Balloon World by Royce B. McClure – Wentworth – 40 pieces

If you couldn’t already tell from the title, you’d know by the whimsy pieces that this is an image of hot air balloons. It’s so bright and colorful, and although it isn’t going to take me long I’m very much looking forward to it.

Normally images of hot air balloons aren’t really my thing, I feel as though it’s overdone and have seen way too many; but for some reason this one speaks to me today and I think it’ll be fun. Here’s hoping.

I tried to go puzzle shopping at the bookstore yesterday, but there wasn’t really anything interesting in a smaller piece count (which was what I was looking for specifically). I didn’t buy anything at all! 🤯

The Circus Comes to Town

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The Circus Comes to Town by Jan Dedman – Mr. Bob Puzzles – 40 pieces

I wish I could tell you that this one was fun, but it actually wasn’t – at least not for me. I’m not even sure why that is, but it’s the truth.

Mr. Bob Puzzles are very good quality, and normally bright, colorful images are exactly my pile of pieces; this image, unfortunately, was not. The quality was excellent, it just wasn’t the right puzzle for me at the time I suppose.

Usually the border isn’t where I start on a puzzle this small, but because there was a band of white around the edge the pieces were easy to find and put together.

I found the whimsy pieces a bit disappointing; they didn’t match the image at all. Australia is always one of the pieces in a Mr. Bob Puzzle, but the other whimsies were just generic forms that I’ve seen before from this brand – and they had nothing to do with the circus. I suppose you could say the teddy bear could be a prize one wins from a game at the circus midway, but otherwise none of them make sense, at least not to me.

Again, I love this brand of puzzle and have developed a wonderful friendship with the founder of the company; and even though this was a very good quality puzzle, I just wasn’t feeling it today.

It has much more to do with me than the puzzle itself.

Music Mania

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Music Mania by Marc Arundale – Wentworth – 40 pieces

With so many colors and so much going on, this little 40 piece puzzle was harder than it looks! Still, it was completely absorbing and for the few minutes it took me to put together I was absolutely focused only on the puzzle – it was fantastic meditation for someone like me who finds actual meditation difficult.

I’ve still got about six more mini puzzles from Wentworth here, and because my queue is basically empty I think you’ll be seeing them very soon. I’ve got to get myself back to a place where I have enough completed puzzles that I can leisurely work on whatever puzzle feels right without worrying about what to post next.

Love these musical whimsies! Wentworth is usually great about making the whimsy pieces fit the image; it’s always entertaining for me to look through the pieces to find the whimsies and see how they relate to the picture on the puzzle.

This image looks as though it would be fun in a larger piece count, there’s so much to see and it’s difficult to actually take it all in when the image is so small. Music Mania was really enjoyable!