Color Garden

Color Garden – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

This puzzle has an awesome image with blocks of color that I very much enjoyed assembling. This is the companion puzzle to Abstract Love that I posted about previously – there is a line drawing on the back of this one as well for you to color in with the paints provided in the subscription box for that month.

Again, for me, choosing which colors to put where and making certain that I didn’t mess anything up would have been stressful for me – so I chose to only assemble the puzzle.

If you were unsure about whether or not you placed a piece correctly on the front you could also use the line drawing on the back to make sure you had it right; which is handy when assembling the puzzle in a place with less than optimal lighting. 🛀

With my daughter really getting into these mini puzzles and working on them whenever she’s here they’ve been going rather quickly; at this rate I’ll be running out of them before too long – even with my subscription. That’s alright, we can always get more. I love that she wants to help me with them. 💛

Space Flare

Space Flare – Wentworth – 80 pieces

This Mini Mindful puzzle from Wentworth sure does make a person slow down and focus completely on the puzzling – of course I loved it!

The repetitive tessellating pieces made for a challenging but fantastic assembly; the geometric shapes were so fun to work with. The “extra difficult” puzzles from Wentworth are very entertaining, and even in such small sizes give your gray matter a little bit of a workout!

As usual the puzzle itself is beautifully made, an excellent quality puzzle all around. You can see from the picture above the stunning image reproduction. Gorgeous 😍

Once I put together the obviously easier sections (shown above), the difficulty level ramped up significantly. We worked on it in the bathroom for a while, you can also see in the picture above how the light is much poorer than it is in the puzzle room.

My daughter came over to visit and while sitting in the puzzle room with me she asked my son to bring out whatever puzzle was in the bathroom so she and I could work on it together. At first she was NOT happy about which puzzle was there, she was hoping to work on Casual Friday but hubby and I had already finished that one. She was a trooper though and got into it after a few minutes, eventually we had a great time working on it together. I love that she wants to work on puzzles with me when she’s here. 💕

There are quite a few more Mini Mindful puzzles here to be done, and after seeing how entertaining this puzzle was I am very much looking forward to the next ones!

Casual Friday

Casual Friday – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

Loved this puzzle – and as an added bonus – I was helped along by both my daughter and my hubby! Hubs put together the border (part of it was wrong but that’s ok, I put it right eventually); and my daughter put together the dark blue shirt. I know that’s only a few pieces, but it counts and I loved that she helped. She also helped me choose this puzzle to assemble before we started, it was her favorite of all the MicroPuzzles here to choose from.

This would be a great puzzle in a larger piece count, the colors and patterns on each shirt were quite fun to sort out and put together.

My brain isn’t working this morning, so there’s isn’t much more I can think of to say about this little puzzle – other than that I still love working with the little pieces, and there’s something so satisfying about completing a MicroPuzzle for me.

Secret Ingredient: Love

Secret Ingredient: Love – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

My apologies for the wonky picture, as you can see it wasn’t taken on my board; it was on a tray in my bedroom and getting the lighting and the angle just right is difficult in there. I did my best, that’s all I can do. You can’t really tell because of the glare at the bottom, but it says p.s. the secret ingredient is love. 💕

If all that dark blue makes you think this was a little difficult you are absolutely right. Luckily there was some extra help available – this is a double-sided puzzle with a recipe for “Puzzle Pie” on the back, all those wonderful little words were perfect for when finding the right blue piece became a challenge. 🥧

This one was sitting in the bathroom for a while, but hubby seemed to want nothing to do with it, so the assembly fell completely to me. That’s alright, it was easy enough to take into the bedroom and work on it while watching tv. Besides, with the darker side better lighting was a must.

This recipe isn’t too far off from my own apple pie recipe, sounds like it would taste amazing (as long as it was a homemade pie crust). You can see in instruction #5 that you need to cut using MicroPuzzles cutters; they came in the box with that month’s subscription – two baking themed puzzles and four cookie cutters shaped like puzzle pieces.

I’m not feeling up to making pies just yet, but I’m looking forward to making some puzzle shaped sugar cookies soon. 🍪

Lights, Camera – Puzzle!

Lights, Camera – Puzzle! – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

This was the companion image to the 3D puzzle that I posted back in March 2022. It was a difficult image for me, and I found myself constantly checking the online image to see where the tiny things made of two pieces went.

This one was apparently too hard for hubby as well, because after many days of no progress I had to take it out of the bathroom and work on it under better lighting in the puzzle room. Oh well, that’s alright, it got completed, and it must have been somewhat entertaining because I didn’t just give up on it.

All recollections were either typed up when I composed the draft of this post, or found from my blurb on the completed puzzles page of the blog. Thank goodness there’s something around to jog this aged old memory!

Love a double sided image!