Monday 12-05-16 40% Done!

On December 5, 2016 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles, World's Largest Puzzle Progress3 Comments

Section number 4 complete! It didn’t take long at all today, there weren’t many pieces left. I’m so proud of myself, this section was difficult!

So 15 days for this puzzle, not too shabby. It was a nice change after finishing Dumbo to have 4 larger characters to assemble instead of one huge character. The filmstrip is always fun, and because this is a corner there was twice as much filmstrip to assemble. This section was a challenge, but I still enjoyed it very much.

So, onto the next section – The Jungle Book. There’s a lot of green, but it’ll be a nice change from all the blue. 🙂 It won’t be a walk in the park either, but I still plan on having a great time assembling it. Besides, this one is my favorite Disney movie and I LOVE the music from it. It’ll be fun listening to the soundtrack while I work.

There are lots of plants and water, little splashes of color with the flowers, a very large rock and of course Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera. A beautiful image and I’m very excited to get going on it. And when The Jungle Book is complete I will be halfway done! WOW!

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Birthday Party

On December 5, 2016January 30, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles, Thrift Store Puzzles1 Comment

Thrift store purchase. The quality was, uh, not up to snuff. Yikes. There were only 2 different piece styles and the thickness of the pieces was extremely thin. The finish of the image was shiny and gave off quite a bit of glare.

Looking back on it, I’m surprised I even finished this puzzle. The image isn’t one I would normally choose, and the quality was quite poor. If someone gave it to me now I don’t think I would even start it.

Once it was completed we gave it away – lesson learned. I am now a jigsaw puzzle snob (according to my mother) and this isn’t a brand I like or recommend.

World of Books

On December 3, 2016 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw PuzzlesLeave a comment

Perhaps my favorite puzzle of the year so far; gorgeous artwork by Aimee Stewart, not an overly difficult assembly, and 2000 pieces to keep me busy for a few days.

Aimee Stewart’s shelf puzzles for Ravensburger are just beautiful, I own them all and have completed almost every one. Her artwork is absolutely stunning and her use of colors just blows my mind. She is one of my favorite puzzle artists. In addition, the puzzle is a Ravensburger, my absolute favorite puzzle company. Best quality out there in my opinion.

My daughter got this for me as a gift, what a sweetie! I can’t recommend this puzzle enough – beautiful, fun and exceptional quality.

Stonehenge In A Nutshell

On December 1, 2016January 30, 2017 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles, Thrift Store PuzzlesLeave a comment

Interesting jigsaw. My first from this company, and I would say the quality is satisfactory; piece thickness was good, image reproduction was slightly fuzzy but I believe that was the artist’s rendering.

This puzzle is grid cut, with basically only 2 piece shapes. It was the first time I was unable to assemble all the edge pieces first. Most were a solid color, except the sides and certain parts of the bottom edge with writing. I connected what I could, and had to wait until the puzzle was almost complete before I was able to finish the edges.

Nevertheless it was a fun, informative puzzle. Lots of information about Stonehenge and it’s construction. Plenty of words to assemble, and there wasn’t really much wasted space or large areas of sameness that would make assembly difficult – especially with only 2 piece shapes. Excellent thrift store find!

Pencil Collage

On November 29, 2016July 16, 2020 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles1 Comment

This White Mountain fit together so tightly it could be stood on end! So of course, I had to take the picture that way, and with the way the pencils are laid out in the puzzle it makes an awesome picture!

We ordered this puzzle and I put off working on it for a while because it was on the “challenging puzzles” page of the White Mountain website and I needed to be in the right mood to do it. I did not find it to be that difficult actually, and really enjoyed the entire assembly. The image was crisp and all the printing on the pencils was easy to read. There were some funny sayings on some pencils and some very interesting ads as well. Super fun puzzle for me – especially because I always love to have words to assemble AND it’s a collage. Bonus!

Don’t be frightened away from challenging puzzles, sometimes the challenge is just what you need and sometimes it isn’t as difficult as you think it will be.