Thoughts of an introverted bookworm and avid jigsaw puzzler
Go Camping! is an adorable 500-piece puzzle from Ceaco, and the artist is Olivia Gibbs. I needed a summery scene for the bingo challenge I am doing, and it fit the bill nicely.
This puzzle was a lot of fun to put together. I like the piece shapes of the Ceaco puzzles I have done, and they fit together well. The image also has a lot of bright colors and distinct textures, which made it a pretty easy one to solve.
I did another Ceaco Food Truck puzzle. This one is simply called Festive Food Truck, and it is 500 pieces, just like the Taco Truck I did earlier. The artist is Stephanie Peterson Jones.
This was a super cute puzzle. I loved all of the signs with words, of course. The image was a bit harder than the other one, but it was still a really easy puzzle. Also, there wasn’t as much puzzle dust with this one.
This puzzle is one of the gifts I bought myself to put under the Christmas tree from Santa. My other Santa gift was a recipe binder which isn’t very full yet, but hopefully will gradually fill up as I collect more recipes. I want to print out the ones I always go to on Pinterest because scrolling through food blog posts to get to the actual recipe is a pain!
Taco Truck is part of the Food Trucks line from Ceaco, and it is 500 pieces. The artist is Stephanie Peterson Jones. I did this on New Year’s Day because I wanted a smaller, fun puzzle after tacking the cactus puzzle the night before. And it was the perfect choice.
I loved the fun colors and all the distinct textures on the puzzle. My favorite parts were the areas with words, but really I enjoyed the whole thing. I liked it so much I ordered three more Ceaco puzzles – two more food trucks and one camping scene.
Today’s puzzle is Steeped in Tradition, a 550 piece puzzle by Ceaco. I received this puzzle from a friend who got it while she was helping another friend clean out his dad’s house after he had passed away. It had belonged to his mom, who had passed some years earlier. I knew going in that it was missing two pieces, as she had written the information on the back of the box, as shown in the picture below.
After doing the border and a couple of small sections from the middle, I moved the puzzle to our sunroom to be safe from our dog Baxter while we were out of the house. However, I got sidetracked and left the sunroom door open, so he got to it anyway. I ended up losing a corner piece and a few of the border pieces. I have no idea where they went, so I’m guessing he ate them!
I let the puzzle sit for quite a while before finally deciding to tackle it. I was worried it would be hard because the colors were so muted, but it wasn’t too bad and I actually enjoyed it. The other day my friend who had given me the puzzle came over and helped me finish it. By that point, I had progressed to sorting the pieces by shape and was working one by one to figure out where each piece fit. With two of us working on it, we got it done fairly quickly. Here is the finished puzzle:
You can see the two original missing pieces as well as the pieces Baxter got a hold of along the bottom edge. I still think it is a charming puzzle, though. I probably won’t keep it to redo since so many pieces are gone now, but I’m glad I got the chance to do it once.
Next up are some puzzles that were lent to me by, of all people, my ex-husband’s girlfriend. She has sent five puzzles home with my son. I’m not sure if I’ll do all of them, but I will likely do at least a couple.
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