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Hummingbird’s Treasure In Progress…

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Hummingbird’s Treasure – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

I haven’t gotten as far I would have liked on this one yet, usually these puzzles are finished in one sitting. They’re what I call “one coffee puzzles” – they can usually be completed in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee. Having a bad time lately with being able to sit in a chair for any length of time though, so this one will hopefully be completed later on today.

There’s something about working on these little puzzles with little pieces; I can’t really explain why they make me so happy, but then again I don’t really need to understand it. I can just enjoy them, right? Of course right!

This image is beautiful, and obviously I love that the hummingbird’s treasure is a puzzle piece. This isn’t an easy one, and working with the somewhat shiny pieces under artificial lighting is proving difficult at times. I had to turn off the light over the puzzle board and just work with the room lighting. The blue color around the border is a bit darker than the image shows, but it’s gonna be stunning when it’s done and difficult or not I’m still enjoying it. 😊

Sew Happy

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Sew Happy – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

This went together VERY quickly, and I absolutely adored it. After typing up my post for Frosty Frolics I really did want to put together a MicroPuzzle. So I did. This image jumped out at me as I was looking through what there was on hand – and I had the best time putting it together.

The bright colors on a white background made it easy enough to assemble, but no so easy as to be boring. The quality was the usual excellence I’ve come to expect from MicroPuzzles; great fit, beautiful and interesting images, and just an overall well-made puzzle.

The fit was so nice that I got to take one of my favorite pictures, standing on it’s edge!

Frosty Frolics

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Frosty Frolics – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

*Yes, another puzzle from the land of 2024. Apologies. But I did assemble them so why not show them off, right? Unfortunately all I did for this draft was download the picture and put it into a draft with the info above – that’s where the story ends.*

So…what’s you’re going to get here is general information about MicroPuzzles and my impression of the image, because there is NO recollection of assembling this one at all. On the plus side, if there were no notes in the draft about anything negative that means this puzzle left no bad impressions and had an overall good experience with the assembly.

Usually when there is a problem with a puzzle’s pieces, fit, image, etc. I always make a quick note in the draft of something specific I want to remember to talk about when ultimately the post is typed up. In the last puzzle that was posted, Squish Summer, what I put in the draft was only three words; but they reminded me that I was unimpressed with the quality overall, and specifically that the pieces were warped.

This image is very cute, and I’m certain that the lines between sky and snow on each level helped make the assembly a bit easier. MicroPuzzles always entertain me, and even though these aging eyes need help I still enjoy working on the tiny puzzles that can be put on a tray and taken to whatever room I want/need to be in.

Thankfully I have plenty of MicroPuzzles yet to be assembled so that when a 1000 piece puzzle seems like way too much of a commitment I can pick an adorable image that I know will be a well-made puzzle that can be done almost anywhere.

Long time readers will remember how I feel about Christmas-y images, but this one wasn’t too sappy of a portrayal and/or with too much white snow that ramps up the difficulty and makes it frustrating to put together. Although I don’t actually remember assembling this one, just looking at the image I can say that it was most likely a pretty fun puzzle.

Just typing up this post has made me want to assemble a MicroPuzzle once I’m finished with the one currently on my board. Luckily I have plenty to choose from! 🧩

Balloon World

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Balloon World by Royce B. McClure – Wentworth – 40 pieces

Looking back through the blog I see that it’s been six years since I’ve completed a puzzle with an image by Royce B. McClure. Oh my! His artwork is always so colorful and imaginative, it’s no wonder there are so many puzzles with his images on them; they’re so fun to put together.

This isn’t an image I would normally choose in a larger piece count, but I enjoyed it on this mini puzzle very much. On a larger puzzle this might be quite a challenge!

I don’t remember any other Wentworth puzzle that I’ve done that had whimsies that were all the same like these; but it’s always nice when the figures they choose are perfect for the image.

My (ever dwindling) collection of mini puzzles are certainly helping me out with building up my queue again, they don’t take much time at all and when I’m in need of a puzzle to post it’s easy to put one of them together quickly.

Plus, they’re great quality puzzles that are always entertaining; perfect to make this puzzle geek’s heart go pitter patter. 💓

Aloe You Vera Much

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Aloe You Vera Much – MicroPuzzles – 150 pieces

To all my faithful tens of readers – Aloe You Vera Much! 💕 Isn’t this an adorable puzzle for the “holiday” today? I thought it was. (We don’t actually consider Valentine’s Day a holiday in our house, it’s expected that we treat each other with love and kindness all year long.)

It’s a cute little cartoon image full of succulents; which, by the way, was the extra little gift I got in my subscription box this month…

Absolutely the most unexpected of extras that I’ve ever received with my puzzle subscription, that’s for sure! I don’t know what went into sending these out to all of their subscribers, but it couldn’t have been overly easy. Luckily they didn’t have to worry about keeping them watered while they were in the mail. 🌵

I enjoyed putting this image together, and thought it was the perfect sentiment for today. Happy Valentine’s Day my friends!