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Hanna-Barbera Collage

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Hanna-Barbera Collage – MasterPieces – 500 pieces

This puzzle was lots of fun, and the pieces felt almost luxurious! What’s not to love about a great collage image like this on an excellent quality puzzle?

I’ve been doing a lot of MasterPieces puzzles lately, and have enjoyed every single one. Their catalog of images has great variety to it, and their quality is even better than I remembered. They have a random cut which makes for interestingly shaped pieces, and the fit is exceptional. The image reproduction is crisp and clear, and the matte finish makes it easier to work with under artificial lights. Overall they’ve got great puzzle images on wonderfully made puzzles and I’m a fan!

As a child of the 70’s and 80’s, of course I watched all four of these tv shows – my favorite of these four was Scooby-Doo, but I liked them all. These shows are from way back when many tv shows actually had theme songs and again Scooby-Doo wins this battle, it was the best theme song of all these shows, with the Flintstones coming in a close second. I’ve been singing these songs in my head for quite a while now, and I’m having a great time reminiscing.🎶🎶

It’s getting less impressive, isn’t it? All these puzzles standing up, ho hum – so boring. Doesn’t matter to me, taking these pictures still makes me happy!

Fast Food Craving

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Fast Food Craving by Graffi*tee Studios – MasterPieces – 500 pieces

I enjoyed this puzzle, and even though it was a little more challenging than I bargained for it was an entertaining build – and I love the look of it!

This one came from a shopping trip out in the world where I picked up some 300, 500, and 1000 piece puzzles. I cannot seem to stop myself from buying more, even though there are PLENTY of puzzles here to keep me busy for a very, very, very long time. Most of the ones I purchased were MasterPieces, and I have to say I am truly loving their quality. Interesting shapes, great fit, beautiful reproduction, nice chipboard – they seem to have it all under control.

I never really thought about this, but there was a time when drive thru windows didn’t exist and people needed to be taught how to use them. So of course a sign like this might have been necessary. As a person who used to work in a fast food place I can tell you that people STILL don’t know proper etiquette and have to be told what to do or not to do. Turn off your windshield wipers people! You’re just throwing water on them.

How would you like this place? A restaurant with a sign that says JUST EGGS and maybe bacon? Yes please! I love breakfast and a good plate of eggs with some potatoes, toast, and maybe a little bacon sounds just about perfect right now. Yum.

You guessed it, I just had to. Apologies if these pictures don’t tickle your fancy, but they definitely make me smile. With all the crap companies out there making crap puzzles for a quick buck, having a great quality puzzle that fits so well you can stand it on it’s edges is quite a blessing to me. Standing up puzzles has been going on for more than a decade in my house, and it will continue till I’m gone or can’t puzzle any more. It just makes me happy, and what a great reason to do it, huh?

Check Please! In Progress…

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Check Please! – Re-marks – 500 pieces

Things have been slow going for me lately, but I’ve got a good start on this one and it shouldn’t be long now. I love all the bright colors and big (but not too big) words to assemble. It’s a great image and it’s been so much fun so far.

Re-marks puzzles have always been in my favorites because they, like White Mountain, have so many fantastic collage images to choose from. And like WM there have been at times quality issues that I just have to deal with if I wanted to play with their puzzles. Thankfully, though, that hasn’t been the case recently. The Re-marks puzzles I’ve done since I came back earlier this year have been excellent, and other than a sometimes loose fit I have had no quality problems at all. Their cuts are random and fun for me to work, and this puzzle specifically has imaginative cuts that I’ve really enjoyed. I’m looking forward to finishing this puzzle, it’s been great so far.

Hope whatever puzzle you’re working on is as fun as this one is!

Sewing Alphabet

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Sewing Alphabet by Krista Hamrick – Puzzle Twist (Something’s Amiss!) – 500 pieces

I know, I know – another mystery puzzle where the image of the whole finished puzzle isn’t shown. Why do I do this to us? Well, for me mystery puzzles are lots of fun, and this blog is about the puzzles I do, so if you’re not a fan, my apologies. But then again, I don’t apologize for loving these types of puzzles because they make me happy.

I’ve done only two of this brand before now, and I enjoy them very much. The quality is quite good all around, and their different categories of mystery means there’s plenty in the catalog to choose from: Something’s Amiss!, What’s Up?, Mixed up!, 4More!, Reveal the Color!, and Here or There?. This puzzle was Something’s Amiss!, where the image on the box is more than a bit different that the one you puzzle. On this particular image there were 30 differences between the box image and the puzzle for you to find.

It really isn’t much different than putting away the box and just using the pieces to assemble the puzzle, and that’s something I do frequently so I don’t find it that difficult. For some I know that they use the box image or poster often when they puzzle so it might be a bit more of a challenge. But don’t let that stop you from trying out one of these great puzzles, you can do it!

Donuts Almost In Progress…

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Rainbow Donuts by Julie Seabrook – good puzzle co. – 500 pieces

On Friday I completely overdid it, and now I’m spending this weekend trying to recover. Luckily I finished the previous puzzle before I left on Thursday and in my own way sorted the next one, see above. The border pieces are in a container, and the rest of them are just generally sorted by color. It isn’t the way I normally do things, but some puzzle images call for this kind of sorting from me.

I don’t have any info for you on the quality of this new-to-me brand, other than to tell you that I’m a little underwhelmed. All the pieces are ballerinas, and the chipboard is on the thin side. We’ll see once I get in to the actually assembly if things get better, worse, or stay the same. Stay tuned. 📺

Hopefully you’re puzzling something great this weekend; and for those of you in the US, enjoy the holiday tomorrow!