Thoughts of an introverted bookworm and avid jigsaw puzzler
Bon Appetit! is an adorable 300-piece puzzle from Ceaco, and the artist is Tracy Flickinger. I got it from the local puzzle box and put it together with my friend Renee when she came for a visit at the beginning of May. She said that she really liked that piece count because it is easier for her to focus for the length of time it takes to do it and she likes the quick reward of seeing it completed.
I enjoyed it as well. It was a very easy puzzle with large pieces and a simple, colorful image.
I recently got this set of Disney puzzles from the puzzle box near my house. It has 5 puzzles in it, which don’t have names. The brand is Ceaco. I thought the images looked like fun to do.
I started with this 300-piece image of Mickey and Minnie with Pluto outside under an umbrella. It came together pretty quickly.
Next I did this 300-piece puzzle of Mickey and Minnie dancing in front of a nighttime skyline. I loved the background on this one.
Next up was this 500-piece image of them dining with Goofy as their waiter and Donald Duck as the chef. This one was still pretty easy to do.
This 500-piece of Mickey as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice was super tricky and took forever to complete. This was partly due to the large amount of dark pieces, but was actually made worse by the fact that the pieces were soft and even a little mushy and didn’t fit together well. I had to try and retry pieces to get them to fit, and even though it is technically complete, I am still not sure I got all the pieces in the right spots.
I finished up with this 750-piece puzzle of Mickey, Goofy, and Donald Duck on a bicycle. It was the most fun to do of all of them. It has a combination of very busy areas and sold color sections. These solid color sections were a lot easier than the sorcerer puzzle, though, because the pieces were in better shape and I could easily tell when a piece was in the right spot.
All in all, I enjoyed doing this set of puzzles. Plus, it was a great puzzle box value – five puzzles out for only one puzzle in!
This 300-piece puzzle from Ceaco has oversized pieces, making it super easy to work with. I loved the image with the separate areas for each color. The artist is Martha Roberts.
Regarding the quality, however, a lot of the pieces had remnants of the backing that hadn’t been cut through all the way and had to be removed so they wouldn’t stick up through the puzzle. Other than that, the quality was good. A nice-sized poster was included, and there were no pieces missing.
I don’t normally do a lot of this piece count, usually preferring 500 or 1000 pieces, but this was a nice treat!
Cinque Terre is a part of the Vivid Collection from Buffalo Games. It’s a 300-piece puzzle that I got from a puzzle box in my area. Even though it has a lot of detail and areas of sky and water, it was pretty easy to put together due to the low piece count.
I loved how rich the colors were, and I enjoyed the detailed buildings all crammed together on the cliffside. I didn’t realize when I was doing it that it is an actual place in northwest Italy.
This is another one I might hold onto for a while so I can do it again. Eventually I will probably return it to the puzzle box.
I was so happy with the way my last puzzle turned out that I decided to do some of the puzzles I had been loaned from my ex-husband’s girlfriend. This weekend I actually completed three of them.
The first one was Peddlin’ Posies by Cardinal, which is a 500 piece puzzle. The artist is Mary Irwin. It’s a charming scene of a flower cart in front of a window. There were a few sections that were a bit challenging, but overall it wasn’t too bad.
The second one was Moonlight Serenity from Bits and Pieces. This one is a 300 piece puzzle, which was a first for me. The artist is Larry Jones. The low piece count and really large pieces made it super easy, so even though it wasn’t a design I would have normally picked out, I enjoyed putting it together.
The third puzzle I did was Afternoon Tea, also by Bits and Pieces. This one was a 500 piece puzzle, and the artist was Tracy Hall. I felt like the pieces were still pretty big and the puzzle was fairly easy to put together. I did it all in one sitting, which did make my back hurt a bit, but I really wanted to get it done before the weekend was over.
I haven’t decided which puzzle to do next. I still have two more loaner puzzles, but I’m not sure if I want to do them or not. I may do one of the puzzles from my Christmas/birthday haul. I have four puzzles waiting to be done, and they are all 1000 pieces, so will be a bit more challenging than these were.
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