Gingerbread Glen* – Aldi – 80 pieces

This adorable little puzzle was quite fun to put together. Pretty much all of them have been very entertaining, good quality puzzles. I’m so glad hubby got this for me, what a sweet guy I have!

Hope you like the title, Gingerbread Glen, I’m actually pretty proud of that one. 😎

There’s only one more day to go and I’m excited to see if we make it through all twelve puzzles with no problems at all, wouldn’t that be something?

Stay tuned!

The Stocking is Stuffed* – Aldi – 80 pieces

It’s only 80 pieces, it’ll be a breeze. Nope! This was the most challenging image to assemble so far, I really had to pay close attention; it’s more difficult than you think when you’re working without an image to reference. At least it is for me.

This calendar of puzzles has been really great in the quality department. Aldi is a grocery store not a puzzle company, yet they’ve managed to put out a wonderful quality set of puzzles and I am duly impressed. Well done!

Chilly Treats* – Aldi – 80 pieces

It looks like the ice cream truck is coming down Lollipop Lane, snow cone anyone? My treat! 🍧

I like this image too, although the border on this one was a bit difficult as well. But at only 80 pieces you can assemble the middle of the image relatively quickly and then fit the edges together later on.

That isn’t how I normally put a puzzle together, but you don’t always have to follow a strict order – sometimes switching things up and doing them differently gives you new perspective. I prefer to put the border together first, but if it’s easier to put those pieces in last then that’s what I’ll do. 😊

Only three days left in this Advent calendar, we’re nearing the end of the holiday puzzles for the year. I’ve been enjoying these little one coffee puzzles in the mornings with some quiet time and a nice cup of hot coffee. I’m actually hoping that next year I can find another good quality calendar of little puzzles to put together in December, it’s been lovely!

Merry Masquerade* – Aldi – 80 pieces

Not my favorite of the images, but once I got going with the faces the rest of the puzzle came together relatively easily. It’s a merry masquerade party – according to me.

Today we’ve have the first quality issue with these puzzles, but I believe it was more about how they were packaged than anything else. You cannot see in the finished puzzle, but there is one piece with a tab bent so far that the actual chipboard is broken. It’s still connected to it’s piece by the image/paper on the front of the puzzle, but care had to be taken not to further damage the piece.

When you have a puzzle packaged in a container that isn’t overly large sometimes pieces get crammed into the space available to them and bent pieces like this can occur. In comparison to other problems it definitely isn’t a deal breaker, and this is the first issue I’ve had with these puzzles at all.

Santa’s Village* – Aldi – 80 pieces

I enjoyed assembling this image very much; that blue-ish background wasn’t the easiest to work with – but there was the added bonus of having words to assemble. And not just the title of the image either, but lots of little sections of words to assemble. Loved this one all the way from Iceberg Lake to Reindeer Games Park to Gift Wrap Station!

The quality remains constant, which is another reason for happiness. I dislike companies whose quality waxes and wanes; not knowing whether or not you’ll end up with one of the good puzzles is a reason that there are several brands whose puzzles I refuse to purchase unless I can open the box and look at the pieces first. The fact that each of these puzzles has good quality and there hasn’t been an issue yet makes me happier than it should.

The PADS struggle is real, my friends. 😉