Tag: Jigsaw Puzzling

Flight of Scarlet In Progress…

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Flight of Scarlet by Daniel Merriam – Artifact Puzzles – 364 pieces

Forgive the dark picture, I don’t seem to be quite caught up on taking and downloading pictures as I once was. It’ll get better. 😎📸

This one’s only been in progress for a couple of days, but it’s coming along nicely if I do say so myself. Once the light colors of the image are finished my feeling is that it’s going to be much more difficult; but hopefully it’s the fun kind of difficult that keeps you entertained and engrossed in what you’re doing.

There aren’t many whimsies in this puzzle; there’s a cat, some (7) butterflies, and a heart – that’s all. Usually there are many more with an Artifact puzzle, but perhaps because this is a limited edition and also one of their “challenging” puzzles the whimsies aren’t the focus. It doesn’t matter as much to me. Don’t get me wrong, I love whimsy pieces, but it’s more about how the assembly goes. How much I can sit and get involved with finding and connecting pieces and be completely in the moment; that’s the special sauce of puzzling for me – at least one of them!

I purchased this puzzle several years ago, maybe a year or more before my latest sabbatical – it just never seemed the timing was right to put it together. Now I just said “what the hell, might as well give it a go”.

Even if it takes a while I’m hoping to really enjoy it….I’ll be sure to let you know how that goes.😉

Vintage Matchboxes In Progress…

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Vintage Matchboxes by Karen Romanko – Colorcraft Puzzles – 1000 pieces

This puzzle was started a few days ago, but it seems to be going quite slowly. The picture above is only one corner of the puzzle, but I’m afraid a picture of the whole thing wouldn’t look like much as it’s only going together one matchbox at a time and everything is spread out all over.

At this particular moment I’m working on all the boxes with either blue or green in them – slow work indeed!

In addition, there’s something about the finish on this puzzle that likes to stick to my arms; so I’ve taken to covering the bottom of the puzzle with fabric when I’m not working there so that I can work on the rest of the puzzle (or the blog) without upending the whole thing when I take my arms away from the table.

Still, I’m enjoying this one even though it’s only going together bit by tiny bit. That’s what matters. 😊

Kiddie Puzzles In Progress…

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Unnamed Puzzles – Oriental Trading – 12 pieces each

I haven’t started actually assembling any of these puzzles yet; I’ve decided to color them all first. My daughter went out to dinner and somehow got them to give her the puzzles they have for kids to play with at the restaurant. Love her!

Got myself a small box of eight crayons, but I should have known they wouldn’t do the job. I tried coloring in the image with the elephant on the left, but the waxy crayons just aren’t the right tool for the job.

The next time hubby went to the store I asked for a small box of markers, and he decided to get me colored pencils as well. So after the zebra is colored in I’ll try the pencils and see how those look, though I have a feeling the markers will definitely be the best.

If you’re wondering, I actually DO know that zebras aren’t pink and orange, but so what? I think it looks pretty cool and I’m enjoying myself. 🖍😎🖍

Flower…In Progress…

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Flower Jungle II by Krovblit – Buffalo – 300 pieces

Got started on this puzzle yesterday, but didn’t work for very long at all and spent most of the remaining day in bed. Sigh.

The Buffalo quality is very good, and the colors and image are amazing. Even though there is still plenty left to go I’m enjoying it very much. I haven’t come across this artist before, Krovblit. Apparently he is an artist who works primarily with collages, but combines that with digitally altering some images before he cuts and pastes them by hand.

I hope there are more puzzles of his to find!

I Love Music In Progress…

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I Love Music by Charlie Girard – White Mountain – 1000 pieces

This was finally sorted and assembly began yesterday, and it’s going quite well! It’s been a minute since I’ve done a brand new White Mountain puzzle, and honestly I’m quite impressed with the quality. Has anyone else noticed if their puzzles have improved in the quality department?

The finish is much nicer than their older puzzles in my opinion – it’s no longer shiny but matte and the hand feel is excellent; I’ve found myself rubbing my fingertips over the assembled sections absentmindedly as I’m thinking or looking for pieces. I like this new finish. 😊

The fit seems nice as well, it’s absolutely Goldilocks in this puzzle; not too tight, not too loose, just right. 👱‍♀️🐻🐻🐻

When I started sorting I thought this would NOT be as entertaining as I’d hoped, but thankfully I was wrong. Again. It’s going well and I’m finding it hard to walk away from. There’s always one piece more, I remember seeing that one, and it should go here……..