This is one of my all-time favourite puzzles. I’ve done it once before, but then it spent a lot of time in the library where I work and several other people did it, and I wanted to check that all the pieces are still there. They are! This will definitely not be the last time I do this puzzle.
Another Rosina Wachtmeister image, this time just 500 pieces. Again, I had a feeling that this should have been more entertaining than it was. I love the image, but somehow, it wasn’t that great of a puzzle to me. I know others feel differently, as there are plenty of puzzles in this series.
Four pieces in the top row were damaged.
This was the second time I’ve done this puzzle. The first time I found it really difficult, surprisingly so, and I was interested to see if it felt the same way the second time around. Also, I’m going to sell this and needed to check that all the pieces are still there 🙂
It did still feel more difficult than it should be, but not as bad the first time. I guess this is one of those images that I really like, but for some reason, it just isn’t as much fun as a puzzle as it should be. But that’s just me, there are probably lots of people who enjoyed this.
One great thing on my recent trip to Dortmund was getting to all the puzzles that I hadn’t seen for four months. I had forgotten so much of what was there that it was almost like getting 100+ new puzzles all at once 🙂 This is the first one I did, and it was lovely.
At first, I thought Villa Como was a reference to the famous lake Como, but then I realized that the artist is called Como, so that’s probably the explanation.
I loved every minute of this! I like doing water, and there’s plenty of that here. Also, I like the panorama format.
There were two extra pieces from some other puzzle(s). They look like Clementoni pieces. I got this puzzle in a large lot of about 40, and there are plenty of Clementonis in there, so perhaps I’ll be able to repatriate these two yet 🙂
This is a poster from a 1935 Marlene Dietrich movie called The Devil is a Woman. I actually have the DVD and watched it while working on the puzzle. I didn’t like the movie the first time around, and it was no better now. I found the story misogynistic in the extreme, not because Dietrich played an unscrupulous woman who charmed men to get money out of them, but because it was portrayed as perfectly natural that an infatuated man would try to use his money to control her, and then beat her when it failed. I mean, that poor man, what else could he do? Bleh.
Anyway, the puzzle was nice, although the fan-thing (the movie was set in Spain) behind her head was pretty hard. I’m glad it wasn’t any bigger 🙂 And yes, Marlene Dietrich was supposed to be Spanish.
I think this is the Bow Bridge in Central Park, New York. There was a bit too much vegetation for my taste in this puzzle, what I enjoyed most was the water 🙂
Fantasy image with waterfall and two unicorns. You can hardly see them in the photo, but I could see them clearly, I just couldn’t get a better photo. Not my favourite image of all time, but I’ll do pretty much any 500-piece Ravensburger and enjoy it 🙂
This was fun, but a bit more difficult than I had imagined. It’s from a museum gift shop, although I bought it second hand, but still unopened. There is no indication who actually made the puzzle, but the quality is OK. The pieces are sturdy enough, but it’s fairly easy to place pieces wrong. Unfortunately, almost all the pieces had the basic shape with two tabs opposite, with only a few pieces where one side is a wave.
The image is a painting by Finnish 19th Century artist Gunnar Berndtson, and the dress is definitely 18th Century. The Louvre opened to the public as a museum in 1793 (care of the revolution), but it housed the royal collections and resident artists since the late 17th Century, so the scene may be intended as happening before 1793. These guys are definitely not dressed like revolutionaries 🙂 I like their relaxed poses.
The box doesn’t show the whole image, the actual puzzle goes further down.
I would love to know what painting they’re looking at 😀
Nice enough 500-pieces Ravensburger with an image of the Taj Mahal. One piece missing, unfortunately. I can’t find much to say about this one 🙂
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