Tag: Artifact Puzzles

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. 😉

Medicine Teepee

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Medicine Teepee by Joseph Henry Sharp – Artifact – 105 pieces

Oh man, was this ever a fun puzzle to assemble! Usually pieces that don’t connect really annoy me, but the way this puzzle was almost like playing with a tangram was extremely entertaining. I absolutely loved it!

There was really no need to take a separate picture of the whimsy pieces, as they’re all sitting on top of the puzzle – you can check them out for yourself. I actually really liked that, it made the rest of the puzzle a little more of a challenge. Whimsies and the pieces that fit around them make a puzzle easier to put together; with these on the top you couldn’t use them to assist in the assembly.

The image by Joseph Henry Sharp was interesting and made for slightly difficult but excellent puzzling. There were quite a few times where I placed pieces wrong (especially in the sky and the grass), you definitely had to pay close attention. Having to be completely focused on the image and the shapes made for an almost meditative experience and I can’t wait to assemble this one again!

What a fantastic puzzle! And a special thanks to Alice for letting me know about the half-price sale at Artifact they were having in June. I got this beauty for only $18.00! 💗

Coronium In Progress…

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Coronium by Nadieh Bremer – Artifact – 172 pieces

After finishing my puzzle yesterday my son chose the next puzzle for me – he picked this gorgeous wooden puzzle by Artifact. I put a few pieces out on the board, but haven’t really gotten into the actual assembly yet.

I’m procrastinating writing up all the posts for the puzzles we did on vacation (not to mention the ones I’ve completed since we returned home) – and that’s not good for my mental health. If I’m not feeling like writing that leads to laying in bed and not writing or puzzling at all. And we all know where that leads. It’s not good. At all.

So before I get started on my beautiful wooden puzzle I’ve got to at the very least get all these pictures of puzzles off of my phone and into some drafts. Once that’s done I’ll feel better about getting started on my new puzzle.

Happy puzzling today my friends! 💚🧩

Literary Dogs

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Literary Dogs by Kathryn Freeman – Artifact – 302 pieces

This very long puzzle was so entertaining to assemble that I kept forgetting to do other things; things like taking a drink, getting up and moving around, talking to my family, etc. With such an interesting border and so many adorable dogs I just kept getting sucked into the assembly – don’t you love it when that happens? I do!

Such a wonderful quality puzzle from Artifact, it was a joy to put together. Lately I’ve been putting together more puzzles with unique borders, and I have to tell you that they are so much fun. 😍 It’s hard to see when you take a picture of the entire puzzle, so I’ve taken some closeup shots for you.

Not only are there whimsies in the body of the puzzle itself, but there are animals frolicking all across the top as well. I love that you can tell the breed of several of the dogs just by their shapes.

The books include quite a few animal-related stories: Lassie, Old Yeller, Moby Dick, White Fang, etc. There are the classics as well; The Hobbit, Of Mice and Men, Anna Karenina and more. Books and dogs – this puzzle was right up my alley!

Love the heart on the side of the big black and white dog (I’m unsure of the breed), and the tableau of animals romping along the top of the puzzle are so cute!

You can see that many of the whimsy pieces were attached to the top border, and some were by themselves. I can’t overstate how much I enjoyed this – it made for a wonderfully absorbing and entertaining afternoon of meditative puzzling.

Nebulium

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Nebulium by Nadieh Bremer – Artifact – 147 pieces

This gorgeous puzzle with abstract but symmetrical pieces was not only highly entertaining to assemble, but it made my sweet hubby’s heart go pitter patter. 💗 I tried to make this puzzle last by taking frequent breaks, but he absolutely loved how it went together and I had to stop him from working on it without me!

My husband is all about putting things in order, and the fact that this puzzle has symmetrical pieces that work outward from the center had him even more motivated than usual to help me. I just had the pieces strewn around on the table (not normal for me, I know, but I was trying to make my limited number of vacation puzzles last) and I asked him to help me find the pieces that connected to the starburst-looking piece that was the center.

Of course once he came over to help and saw that there were many pieces of the same shape he said we had to separate them by shape first before we went any further. Once that was done he was hooked, figuring out what set of pieces was the next layer had him more engaged with a puzzle than I’ve seen him in a long time. And more than once I had to make him stop working on it without me!

The image was beautiful, but it was the abstract pieces and how the puzzle was assembled from the center outward that had both of us so enamored with it. While we were working on it I was telling him about another puzzle by the same artist with a somewhat similar but more complex shape on the Artifact website, and how the other puzzle was in my cart first while I was shopping but I switched it out for this one because the first one looked a bit more difficult.

Once we finished this puzzle he asked me to show him the puzzle I didn’t buy, and then told me that I should buy it. Several times in the next couple of days he asked if I had bought it yet – can you tell he REALLY enjoyed the assembly of this puzzle?

If any of you are wondering…..of course I went back and bought the other puzzle. It came with us for our second trip. 😎