Category: Dortmund

Hygieia, 2019-08-07

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Hygieia by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, a painting from 1900.  The quality was good, as it usually is with Grafika, but it was still pretty difficult.

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Hygieia by Gustav Klimt, Grafika, 1000 pieces. Completed on August 7th, 2019.

It was really only the red and gold dress that was hard. Up until this point, I had no problems, but then all the pieces looked the same. At one point I thought it would be have been easier to have an area of the same colour rather than all this confusing red and gold, but I did learn to pick out some of the pieces. I found most of the snake-pieces, and I also managed to pick out most of the pieces with the small round / heart-shaped dots. Slow, but not unpleasant.

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Hygieia, In Progress

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Hygieia was a Greek goddess, daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. This version has little to do with Greek mythology, it’s a painting by 19th Century Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. I like his paintings, and sometimes I can’t help myself even though I know they make difficult puzzles. This is my favourite, and I also have a mug with the same image.

As a puzzle, it is quite difficult, but not too bad. I did sort the greenish area on the left according to shape, but it was fairly fast and enjoyable to complete, mainly because the quality is excellent. I expect it will become more difficult from now on.

There were some pieces stuck together again, this, unfortunately, happens with Grafika quite a lot,  but it wasn’t too bad this time. I didn’t pull them apart, I don’t mind a bit of help with this 🙂

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Dortmund City Puzzle, 2019-08-02

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A map of Dortmund. I’ve placed a coin on the puzzle where I live, below on the left. I bought this in a local book shop, and it was expensive, but nice quality and very entertaining to me, of course. It was a bit more difficult than expected. The brand, Extra Goods, is new to me, and they seem to offer various gift items, including puzzles with maps of various cities. Helsinki is also available, but not from their site, they only sell wholesale to other stores, but I’ve seen the puzzles on Amazon. Obviously, they don’t produce the puzzles themselves.

The puzzle came in a tube, which wasn’t much use, since a huge part is obscured by the title, and the puzzle also covers a larger area than what is seen on the box. In fact, I was happy to see that my house was on the puzzle, after all, I thought it wouldn’t be because of the box. I’m not usually a fan of posters, but here, one would have been nice.

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Dortmund City Puzzle, Extra Goods, 500 pieces. Completed on August 2nd, 2019.

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The Waitress, 2019-08-01

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A 500-piece Ravensburger from the series Happy Days at Work (No.16). This is my first from the series, but the others I’ve seen also seem to depict scenes from the ’50s. Unfortunately, this series hasn’t been released in Germany (it’s from the UK branch of Ravensburger), which makes the puzzles expensive for me. This was totally worth it, though, I loved it!

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The Waitress, Ravensburger, 500 pieces. Completed on August 1st, 2019.

Somehow painted cakes look even more delicious than cakes in photos!

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Funky Zoo – Polar Habitat, 2019-07-31

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This was the kind of puzzle where I loved every single piece. Every single piece! There are lots of interesting details, but overall it’s not too busy.

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Polar Habitat, Heye, 1000 pieces. Completed on July 31st, 2019.

A snail has found a cool new house.

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There are often football references in Marino Degano puzzles,  and here a group of penguins are supporting Juventus. They always wear the colours anyway 🙂

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Some Very Important Penguins are having champagne.

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Santa Clause is painting his igloo, but he doesn’t look too happy about it.

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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.