Foil Puzzle – My Jigsaw Journal

Creatures of the Cosmos by Sarah Walsh – Mudpuppy – 500 pieces

This puzzle was more enjoyable than I anticipated, and the pleasant surprise of having more than one piece shape was fantastic. Easy to sort, relatively easy to assemble, this one was lots of fun!

My daughter insisted I buy this one, and to be honest I wanted nothing to do with a Mudpuppy puzzle, but I couldn’t refuse my baby girl. Good thing too, because other than the “sharp” white backing I thought the quality of this puzzle was very good. My last Mudpuppy puzzle (a birthday gift) was good quality as well, but still had just the one piece shape; the fact that this one had a variety of shapes made me quite happy. Perhaps the fact that it had foil accents had something to do with the difference in pieces.

The stars in the constellations and the lines that connect them were all foil accents in this image. It’s hard to capture in a closeup picture, but it wasn’t difficult to work with at all.

Creatures of the Cosmos was enjoyable to assemble, and happily I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would! 🌟

Creatures of the Cosmos by Sarah Walsh – Mudpuppy – 500 pieces

Unfortunately I haven’t been feeling well the past few days, so the puzzling going on here has been minimal. It’s taken two days to get this far on a 500 piece puzzle, definitely not normal for me.

This is one of the puzzles we got when my daughter and I went shopping a couple of weeks ago; she really wanted me to buy it, so of course I did. I wasn’t looking forward to assembling it to be honest; it’s a Mudpuppy, and their lack of variety in piece shape and sharp backing don’t make for great puzzling in my opinion. But – wonder of wonders – there are different piece shapes! Is this something new?

I will say this though…that border was a b*tch! 🤬