Tag: Collage

Dog Lovers

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Dog Lovers by Anderson Design Group – MasterPieces – 1000 pieces

As a verified dog person, of course I loved this puzzle. One of the better quality MasterPieces puzzle I’ve done in quite a while. The fit was excellent, the image reproduction was very good, and the very random piece shape kept things interesting. Great puzzle!

I started with all the wording, even though that’s not where I normally begin with a collage puzzle. But in this image there were way more pieces with no words so it seemed the best place to start.

Once these words were put together a song kept running around and around my head. “Kanine Krunchies can’t be beat, they make each meal a special treat. Happy dogs are those who eat nutritious Kanine Krunchies.” I knew of course that it must have been a Disney or Pixar movie, but just couldn’t place the song and the movie together in my brain. Luckily we’re living in the age of google, so putting the first bit of the song into a search engine brought me to a small clip of the movie where that song is sung. 101 Dalmations! I knew I recognized it, and once I found out where it came from it stopped playing in my head. Thank goodness!

Look at that gorgeous little lady! If you’ve been here for a while you know that I used to have a Boston Terrier named Buddy, and he was definitely my sunshine. I miss him terribly, but still think all Boston’s are gorgeous dogs and always love to see them in a puzzle. 🐾🧡

The fit was so good on this puzzle that I knew when I was at the beginning putting the border together that I’d be able to do this at the end. Not a fit that’s so tight you have to cram the pieces together, just snug enough. Love that kind of fit! It’s not often I can do this with a 1000 piece puzzle, so this picture here made me very happy indeed. In fact, I took this before I took any other pictures, that’s how confident I was in being able to stand it up.

If this looks like a puzzle you’d enjoy, it has a very good recommendation from me – if anyone gives a crap what I recommend. 😂

Storytime In Progress…

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Storytime by Charlie Girard – White Mountain – 1000 pieces

This gorgeous collage is making me very happy indeed, it’s such a great image for puzzling! Once I got past the sorting/laying out the pieces it’s been absolutely happiness and I’m actually trying to slow myself down a bit so it isn’t over too quickly.

It’s the usual White Mountain quality; there was a LOT of puzz fuzz in the box and all over the pieces, and some of the images are a little bit blurry. Other than that though everything is good. The pieces are the usual WM shapes, plenty of variety, they fit together well, and it’s been entertaining to work on. I put up with the sometimes blurred images and the other issues they may have because their collages are fun for me and they have so many great ones in their catalog.

I’ve gotta pack myself up for a little trip I’m taking tomorrow, so there won’t be much puzzling today; but I’m hoping to finish it soon and keep right on enjoying myself with every piece.

I hope you’re having as much fun puzzling today as I am. If so, we’re all doing great!

Page & Screen

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Page & Screen – Re-marks – 1000 pieces

Soooo…………of course I loved this one! The dopamine that book cover puzzles gives me makes me so very happy. Unfortunately I only have three or four of them left here, perhaps a shopping trip is in order???

The quality of this puzzle was excellent all around, my only problem was with the glare from the shiny finish – it was one of those puzzles I needed to turn off the light above the puzzle board and only use the room light. When I find myself tilting either my head or the tray of pieces I know that the light above the board needs to go to sleep for a bit. The previous puzzle I assembled, Admont Abbey Library, had such a beautiful matte finish that it was almost shocking to start working with this puzzle which seemed very very shiny in comparison.

Usually what I do with a book cover puzzle is pick out a few books and talk about them and my history with them. This puzzle is about the page and the screen though, so I decided to do something different this time. First, I’m going to tell you that I’ve only read nine of the fifty books shown here; and I’ve seen 22 of the movies. There’s quite the difference, huh? We’re a streaming society now, and movies are much more readily available than books are, unfortunately.

Second I’m going to ask a couple of questions.

First question, if there was one book shown here that you would recommend as perhaps an underappreciated gem, what would it be?

Even though it’s a bestseller, I don’t think this book is appreciated enough. There’s a lot of blather in the first chapter about money and deals and yadda yadda yadda. The first time I read the book I thought, “what the hell is this crap?” and almost stopped reading. Thank goodness I kept going, because this book triology is one of my all time favorites and I can’t even remember how many times I’ve read all three books. I don’t recommend the movie made in the US though, the Swedish version is much better, and they made all three movies in Sweden. My darling hubby bought me the set (dubbed in English) cause he knows how much I loved the books and he’s a very good guy. 💕

Now for the second question, if there was one movie shown here that you would recommend to someone who hadn’t seen it, which one would it be?

I absolutely adore a good thriller, and even though this isn’t a book I’ve read I very much enjoyed this movie and have seen it several times. There’s something wonderful about a movie that sucks you into the story and you suspend all disbelief and just go with it wherever it takes you. This movie was like that for me, and it gets my recommendation if you’ve never seen it. Or if you’ve seen it already, maybe watch it again – it’s fun!

This puzzle was great fun, and a little bit of a challenge for me as I didn’t use the box image or poster and did this one just using the image on the pieces and let it take me where it went. I’ve done so many of these book cover puzzles that they’re almost too easy using the poster and more of a challenge was needed this time.

If you find this one out in the world it’s highly recommended. Great image!

Carnival Costumes

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Carnival Costumes by Aimee Stewart – Buffalo – 1000 pieces

This gorgeous thing was on my board for almost four days, but it didn’t matter how long it took because it was so much fun from start to finish!

It was the typical Buffalo quality, very good. Thank goodness my favorite puzzle artist has chosen to work with companies that actually give a crap about the quality of their products, I don’t think I could bear it if her work was only found on Ceaco puzzles, or something even worse. Luckily though, she works with Buffalo in the US, Schmidt and Ravensburger internationally, and probably more. In fact, I’ve got a package on the way to my house from the UK (as I’m writing this, by the time you read this the package will have arrived) with three Aimee Stewart puzzles from Schmidt that I wasn’t able to find in the US from Buffalo.

Usually Aimee Stewart images are chock full of little things you don’t really notice until you’re putting the puzzle together, but this image is very different. It’s costumes, and only costumes – what you see is what you get. They all look so glamorous from far away, but actually when you look at them close up some of them are kind of ugly! Each different outfit was fun to assemble, and the way the colors work together is absolutely stunning.

I loved this image the first time I saw it, and I still love it now. Fantastic puzzle with a fantastic image that made for a quite a few days of fantastic puzzling. 💖

Fantasy In Progress…

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Fantasy – Re-marks – 1000 pieces

As you can see I’ve finally gotten started on the 1000 piece puzzle that I sorted last week, but unfortunately yesterday didn’t go as planned, and I didn’t get very far. Today will be better, I’m sure of it.

Hope your current puzzle is going well, happy puzzling my friends!