Tag: Ravensburger

Disney & Pixar In Progress

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Disney & Pixar Toy Store – Ravensburger – 1000 pieces

I sorted this puzzle before we left on our trip, and it was especially nice coming home to a puzzle all nicely separated and waiting to be assembled. If only I were wealthy enough to be able to hire someone else do my sorting for me! 💲💸

Pretty much all of this work was done on Monday, I spent yesterday going to doctor’s appointments and sleeping for the most part. This second trip has worn me out!

All that’s left now is the staircase on the left and the shelves on the right – it shouldn’t take too much time at all. I’ll have to sneak in a bit of puzzling as I’ve been ordered to stay off my feet with my leg elevated for the next week at least, but hubby isn’t around all the time and I can certainly be allowed a few minutes of puzzling, can’t I?

It’s good for my mental health!

Fantasy Golf In Progress…

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Fantasy Golf (What If? No. 18) by Geoff Tristram- Ravensburger – 1000 pieces

Obviously I cannot show you the puzzle that I’m currently assembling; it’s a mystery puzzle and showing the image, even just in progress, is a spoiler. Instead I’m sharing the picture on the back of the box. This is the artist, Geoff Tristram; his photo is on the back of every What If? puzzle that he draws, and he’s always dressed up in outfits that relate to the theme of the artwork.

The box says “What If? Golf suddenly became easier to play? Just imagine how delightful a round could be…” From what I can see so far, it’s going to be another beautiful bit of cartooning from the artist, and more fun and funny characters and situations to assemble.

Hubby is off at a golf tournament today, so I’m hoping working on this puzzle brings him good luck. 🍀⛳

*If he wins, we can use the cash prize to buy more puzzles! 😎*

Cozy Bathroom

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Cozy Bathroom by Olga – Ravensburger – 500 pieces

This was a large piece puzzle by Ravensburger, and both the quality and the image made for a wonderful puzzling experience. The pieces felt amazing in my hands, the artwork is stunning, and the fit was exceptional – loved it!

When I work on a puzzle like this it reminds me why Ravensburger is one of my favorite brands of cardboard puzzles; the quality far surpasses most other puzzle companies and they have such a broad range of images in their catalog to choose from. And there’s something about the larger piece puzzles of theirs that is even more satisfying to work with – I just adore them.

This beautiful painting on the wall doesn’t seem very detailed when you see it close up, but you know exactly what it is – an homage to a Monet painting. Gorgeous!

There was something about this tableau in the corner of the image, it’s absolutely beautiful. I don’t know about anyone else, but whenever I see someone bathing on tv or in the movies and there are lit candles everywhere my first thought it how much of a pain in the a*s it would be to light them all in the first place. Or clean up after them when wax spills onto tables or other surfaces. Candlelight is lovely, but sometimes it doesn’t seem as though it’s worth all that work.

Stunning image, fantastic quality, and a wonderful all around assembly; this puzzle is very highly recommended. 🛀👍

What’s Puzzling…

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Cozy Bathroom by Olga – Ravensburger – 500 pieces

I’ve only done a couple puzzles with artwork by Olga, and both of them have had only kittens/cats in them – how delightful to have this adorable puppy in this image! How could you resist that sweet face?

Yesterday I had only started on the sorting of this puzzle, but spent most of the day in bed. Luckily (not really), I was up and at the puzzle board at 3 am; so it’s now completely sorted and there is actual assembly going on.🧩

Insomnia is not great for me personally, but it is good for giving me plenty of quiet time to puzzle with no one asking questions or expecting anything of me. It’s also good for making sure there are plenty of puzzles in the queue to be posted – there is much more time for me to puzzle if sleep doesn’t interfere much.

There’s no need to worry about having enough puzzles to get through our upcoming trip, there will be plenty ready to go before we even leave. There will even be enough completed to have a cushion of a couple of days after we return – time for me to get back into the groove of puzzles and posting. I’ll be taking some smaller wooden puzzles and my computer with me, of course, but it’s nice to have a big enough queue of completed puzzles that there’s no worry about keeping up. 😎

Goofy

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Goofy – Ravensburger (Disney Treasures from the Vault) – 1000 pieces

This beauty was gorgeous and extremely entertaining, and the puzzle massage at the end was SOOOOO satisfying – it’s been forever since I’ve assembled a Ravensburger. Their finish has an unmistakable feel to it, and it was lovely to run my hands over it once it was complete. 👋

Disney Treasures from the Vault special edition Ravensburger puzzles – there’s a crap ton of them! This is the first one I’ve seen in person though, and I just couldn’t help myself; the poor thing looked so lonely on the shelf, it needed to be adopted and come home with me where it would get the love it deserves. There’s one for Pluto that also is a collage of “posters”, I’d love to get my hands on that one. Many of the other special edition vault puzzles are just a single image of certain characters, and they’re not as attractive to me for some reason. Although I might feel differently if I were to see them in person rather than online.

Doing a 1000 piece puzzle isn’t so intimidating if it’s a collage (at least for me), so getting this one going wasn’t a problem at all. Easy to sort, easy to assemble – but not too simple. All around it was great fun, and I can’t ask for much more.

My kids and hubby tell me that we’ve seen this short, but as usual there is no recollection of it whatsoever.

Unusually this was one of the most entertaining sections to assemble. I had my money on one of the brighter sections being the most fun, but nope – it was this one. I can’t really explain why it was so enjoyable, it just was.