Month: July 2019

Athene, 2016-11-27

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My first and so far only Great American Puzzle Factory puzzle. They’re not available in Europe, as far as I know, and I got this one as a swap. About 10 years ago, I was posting puzzle photos on Flickr and started talking to a Californian puzzler. We decided to do a swap, I sent her two puzzles, and she sent me two in return. This was one of the puzzles I got, the other had an Ancient Egypt type image. I sent her this, and another puzzle, can’t remember which.

Anyway, the puzzle is nice and the quality good.

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Athene, Great American Puzzle Factory, 500 pieces. Completed on November 27th, 2016.

Polar Habitat, In Progress

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My first puzzle in Dortmund for the summer is the Polar Habitat from the Funky Zoo series by my favourite artist, Marino Degano. I chose this because it’s so hot that I quite like to look at some ice 🙂

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There are tons of interesting details as usual, including an ice bear with a Lisa Simpson doll…

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… and some promotion for another puzzle in the series.

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The Inventor’s Cupboard, 2017-10-15

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I’ve arrived safely in Dortmund. Managed to scratch the car a bit in the garage after driving 1500 km safely 🙂 It’s not too bad, though.

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Number 5 in the Curious Cupboards series, my first. I don’t really know why, but I didn’t find this that enjoyable. Also, I managed to lose a piece, although I can’t see it on the photo.

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The Inventor’s Cupboard by Colin Thompson, Ravensburger, 1000 pieces.

Car Trouble, 2019-07-15

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So, I did this last week, but I immediately realized I would have to publish it today, since this is the day when me and my car will board a ferry to Stockholm, and tomorrow I’ll be driving through Sweden and Denmark toward Germany. I hope to be in Dortmund on Saturday, but it’s fine if it takes an extra day. And of course, I hope there will be no car trouble!

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Car Trouble, Clementoni, 500 pieces. Completed on July 15th, 2019.

I got the puzzle in a batch with lots of other 500 piece puzzles, and it’s not an image I would have chosen, but it turned out to be really entertaining. It was nowhere near as hard as I thought it would be, with the black and white background. Clementoni is an excellent brand, and the great quality helped a lot.

There will be no puzzling for some days now, obviously, but I’ve set it up so that there should be a post with an old photo every day.  Wish me luck!

Shopping Again

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I found another Stenvall, only one missing until I have all 30 now! This one is called Secret Garden.

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This was a bit sad, actually. The seller was a passionate puzzler, who can’t puzzle much anymore due to health issues, and she is slowly letting go of her collection. She wasn’t old either, younger than me, I think. I got two other puzzles from her, a 2000 piece Clementoni (Chuck Pinson), and another Tactic with a painting called Luxembourg Gardens, Paris from 1887,  by Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt.  I’ll be thinking of her when I work on these.

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Funky Zoo – African Habitat, 2016-02-25

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Funky Zoo is a great series by my favourite artist, Marino Degano. There are currently 8 instalments with various areas of a zoo, and you can put together the images to make an entire zoo. I think that means that the path and the river are always in the same place so that you will get one very long puzzle 🙂 As far as I know, the series is still ongoing, there was one release this year (Australian Habitat). I have all eight, but I’ve only completed two so far.

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African Habitat by Marino Degano, Heye, 1000 pieces. Completed on February 25th, 2016.
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Lunching lions, circling vultures.