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Catching Up!

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Hopefully this will be my last “late” post! Lots of puzzles to show!

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“Eeveelutions” 2000 piece by Buffalo

My husband and I are really big Pokemon fans, especially eevee and all it’s evolutions- and when we saw Pokemon puzzles for sale at Walmart, on my husband’s birthday no less, we both scored big! He picked three for me to assemble and glue for him to decorate over his desk, and of course the first I did HAD to be the eeveelutions!

This was a blast to assemble, and looks fantastic when it’s finished! Now if only they didn’t have to shove a Pikachu into every piece of Pokemon merchandise, regardless of what the main theme is…

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“Detective Pikachu” 500 piece Buffalo

Another of the puzzle’s hubby picked for his birthday…. And the one I least looked forward to assembling! I tried to impress upon him how ‘not fun’ this one would be, what with all the solid black, without telling him no outright, but he would not be detered! Ah well, it was only 500 pieces, and I only had to sort the last 50 pieces or so by shape and try each one until they fit… @_@;;; It’s nice looking finished off though!

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“Still Life with Watermelon” 500 piece Cardinal

A quick finish on my desk puzzling space, just a little dollar store beauty. Glued and hung in the kitchen!

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“The Astronomer” 750 piece by Master Pieces

This one is far more lovely in person, because it is holographic and nearly impossible to get a good photo of! I can’t say I’m a fan of the holographic pieces from an assembly point of view, as it adds an extra layer of challenge that I don’t find enjoyable. But it does look pretty cool when it’s finished!

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A snap of some of ‘The Astronomer’s pieces, which better shows their vibrant colors!

And last but not least, a Cobble Hill thrift store find! One hundred percent complete, and now going in my collection! I adore Cobble Hill!

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‘Fishing Lures’ 500 piece by Cobble Hill

More Completes!

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I’ve been slow to puzzle recently, and even slower to update! I’ve always got puzzles going, but have been too busy to sit down and get my blog posts written up. Whoops!

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“Balloons Over Cottage Cove” 2000 Piece MB Puzzle

I finished this one up back on the 7th of July; my first ‘real’ 2000 piece, and it was a total blast. Really fun to assemble, and the perfect balance between challenge, and making solid progress at every sitting.

The artist is Nicky Boehme; her art makes such bright and colorful puzzles. I’m always keen to snatch one up when I see it in the store.

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My husband was slightly horrified when he came in and discovered me reboxing it. He said for how long it took me to do (and it was on my board for about two months, I really worked it at a leisurely pace!) that he was certain I would glue it! Nope! This one’s going in the trade pile!

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‘Mickey and Minnie in Paris’ by Thomas Kinkade, 500 piece Ceaco
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“Fresh Fruit and Veggie Basket” 500 Piece PuzzleBug

Two more small completes, a Disney image from Thomas Kinkade- I just love the rainy scene. One of my desk puzzles, and I poked at it off and on for a few days. It’s been a while since I’d done a Ceaco; now I realize why people complain about them… I don’t think they’re bad, but I do with they had a thicker, hardier cardboard. Especially since they’re the same price (or nearly so) of the much nicer Buffalo brand!

The fruits and veggies was one I did and glued to hang in my kitchen- it’s glued, though not yet hung… I only did it because I had a number of other small puzzles to glue, and those are now happily in their place over the fish tanks, finally!

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And now for my latest complete, what filled my board after the veggies and the 200 piece:

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“Earth Angel” 1000 piece Buffalo, art by Josephine Wall

Hard to resist a Josephine Wall- such beautiful colors and stunning artwork!

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I chose to start with the wing, and honestly, I feel like it was the most challenging part. Very difficult to orient the pieces to each other when they’re just varying degrees of dark blue and black with small dots! Once that was done it was relatively smooth sailing!

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I’m always tempted to glue her puzzles, because I’d love to have the art on the walls… but they’re also really fun, so I’v decided to keep them in my collection instead. So back into the box it went this afternoon, and on to more puzzles for me!

Vintage Bicycle Posters

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2019-02-24 11.09.55
‘Vintage Bicycle Posters’ 2000 Piece by MB Puzzles Big Ben

This lovely puzzle was two different firsts for me- My first 2000 piece, and also my first collage!

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It was both easier and harder than I was expecting. I’ve actually avoided collages for the most part because I thought they’d be way easy, like, unenjoyably so. And while I wouldn’t say this was particularly hard, it was more that it was challenging in a different sort of way. The edges were particularly tough compared to everything else, all the colors and textures being all over the place!

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It wasn’t exactly the best quality though. I think they just downscaled the size of their cut, and a lot of pieces ended up with nubblies with very thin necks, and some of the nubblies had fallen off completely. While sorting, I just took my time and separated out the few pieces that were in danger. I saved all the nubs that had escaped, and the puzzle was 100% complete; I was able to tuck the nubblies into their holes when the pieces around them were assembled. Not ideal, but no biggy either!

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Never having done a collage, I decided for this one that the text would be a good starting point. Easy to find all the text pieces, and once assembled gave lots of goo starting points for branching out!

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After that, I decided to pull out and assemble all the edges between the posters, which got most of the puzzle locked into place, and from there it was just down to building it all out!

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It went surprisingly fast, but was an absolute blast! I wouldn’t say collages are my favorite; kind of like assembling a bunch of small puzzles that are mixed together. It would probably not have been so easy either were each of the posters in the image not so distinct from one another. All around though, for my first collage and 2000 piece, I’m really pleased! I can’t wait to tackle another, more difficult 2000 piece!

What a fun puzzle!