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Disney Puzzles

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!

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Frederick the Literate

So I did buy a 1,000 piece puzzle called Fantastic Fashionista from Ravensburger Puzzles and even finished about half of it, but I never completed it. I had finished all of the colored parts and was left with the white walls and floor to do, so it was definitely getting pretty tricky. Then we went out one day and left Baxter in the kitchen/dining room, and he pulled the puzzle down off the dining room table and completely dismantled it!

I had no way of knowing how many pieces were ruined or missing after that, so I decided to just trash the puzzle. At least I got to do the fun parts of the puzzle before it was wrecked! Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of my progress, but here’s a picture of the front of the box.

Before starting my next puzzle, I went to Michael’s and bought some foam board to put the puzzle on. That way I could move it to the sunroom if I needed to leave Baxter alone in the house (since we close that door when we leave him alone).

The puzzle I just did was Frederick the Literate by Buffalo Games. It’s part of the Cats of Charles Wysocki line. It was super cute. If you look at the picture closely, you can see that the book titles are all fun, made-up titles related to cats. The cat fur was definitely the hardest part, but because the puzzle was only 750 pieces, even that wasn’t too bad.

I am still really enjoying spending time doing puzzles, although I don’t think I have the patience for large difficult sections, such as single color areas. I want to be making progress all the time, even if it’s a bit slower some of the time.

My next puzzle is Sandra Boynton’s Puzzle Complaints. It’s 500 pieces and just looks like a lot of fun.