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Woodland Magic

Last weekend I did the puzzle Woodland Magic by Elena Essex. It’s a 1000 piece puzzle showcasing a variety of mushrooms and toadstools. I absolutely loved this puzzle! The colors are so vibrant, and the design was beautifully done.

I would say this puzzle was low to medium in difficulty. There were only a handful of pieces that were solid cream for the background – almost every piece had some amount of color on it. And the different color sections didn’t have so many pieces that they became overwhelming; plus there were a lot of different textures even within each color.

Here’s a picture of the finished puzzle:

This was such a fun puzzle to do – it was really perfect for me! I have already put more of her puzzles on my wish list.

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Christmas Carolers

Well, I might have to call this one a puzzle fail, but I’ve gotten as far as I am going to on my newest puzzle. It’s called Christmas Carolers, and it’s a 1000 piece puzzle by Galison. The artist is Louise Cunningham Starling. My son Michael got it for me for my birthday (which is on Christmas Day).

It was a few weeks after Christmas when I decided to start it, but at least it was still winter so there was some snow here and there! I did the border first and started on the houses, but one day my dog Baxter got hold of the puzzle and I lost most of the lower part of the border.

I did the rest of the houses, then the windows with the Christmas trees, then the big Christmas tree, and finally the people down in the snow. Then I was left with only white pieces for the rest of the snowy ground, and it got pretty slow going. After a while, I decided that I had done enough and would call it done.

If I still had the whole border intact, I might have pushed through to finish the entire thing, but with so many pieces already gone, I lost my will to complete it.

I’m not sure which puzzle I am going to do next, as I have several options from the ones I got for Christmas and my birthday.

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Love Stamps

It’s been a few weeks since I did a puzzle, but this weekend I finished Love Stamps, a 1000-piece puzzle from White Mountain Puzzles. The artist is Lois B. Sutton.

I started it when my friend Renee was over, and we did the border and got a couple of the stamps started. Because of the number of pieces and the size of the puzzle, I didn’t have a lot of room to lay out the pieces or even sort them. I had been looking at some puzzle sorting trays on Amazon for a while and decided to order them to help with this puzzle.

Here’s what the trays look like all stacked together. Using them to sort the pieces was very helpful and made doing the puzzle much more enjoyable.

This was a very fun puzzle to do. It was basically lots of mini puzzles connected with different styles of borders. It was interesting to see the different styles of art used for these stamps throughout the years. I even used it as an educational tool to explain to my son the difference between stamps that had the postage printed on them and the Forever stamps that we use now.