Despite the border I did the edges first with this one. The colours are a bit muted, and the puzzle was more difficult than I was expecting.
For the puzzle challenge, this is #1, a selfie. I actually thought I wouldn’t find a selfie among my puzzles, and I was thinking of getting a puzzle with a self portrait by Frida Kahlo, but then I saw a photo of this puzzle on FB and realized that I have it, and that right in the middle they are taking a selfie.
This was my first Vermont Christmas Company puzzle, and I’m afraid I wasn’t impressed with the quality. There were a few false fits, but the worst problem was how loose the fit was and that pieces wouldn’t stay together. I must have done the bottom edge at least three times. I have no idea if this is typical of the Vermont Christmas Company, and I’m unlikely to find out as the puzzles are not available in Europe – this was lent to me by a friend who got it in the USA.
The image was more entertaining than I was expecting. I thought all the vegetation might be difficult, but it was easy to distinguish different types of vegetation, and there wasn’t much left of the palms after all sky pieces had been placed, so it ended up being pretty easy. One piece missing, although it’s hard to spot (in the second palm from the left).
For the puzzle challenge this is #23, a loaned puzzle.
I really like this painting, and it was nice to do as a puzzle, although not all that easy. I think they have added some new extra waves in order to fit the panorama format – all other images I’ve seen only have the large wave in the middle. This puzzle was a Christmas present.
For the puzzle challenge, this is #25, panorama.
This was fun and easy! While this is a Schmidt puzzle, the same image is also available by Buffalo. For my puzzle challenge, this is the bonus challenge for March, which is the song Northern Lights (Revontulet in Finnish) by Anssi Kela, who is the first of this year’s artists that I’ve actually heard about. I still haven’t heard the song, though.
I would have preferred more colourful doors, to be honest, like the bright green one in the bottom row, but even like this, it wasn’t really a difficult puzzle. The dark green and brown doors were last, I think, and after that there was still some brickwork to fill in. The quality was good and I had no false fits, as usual with the larger Bluebird puzzles.
For my puzzle challenge, this is #7, North America.
Reasonably easy and enjoyable Ravensburger. For my puzzle challenge this will be #13, Campfire.
This was fun and easy! I picked out pieces for different backgrounds and then filled in the rest.
For my puzzle challenge, this is #11, Recognizable breed of dog. Snoopy is a beagle 🙂
Despite the enormous sky this puzzle was not hard at all. It’s an older Ravensburger, from 1982, and as usual, the cut is perfect. It’s so distinct that you often see a piece and know just by the shape where it belongs, the same way you can see a piece and think “oh, that’s the other half of that lamp”. Really enjoyable puzzle!
The puzzle challenge I’m doing has extra monthly challenges that are communicated as (Finnish) songs, and the song for February was “In the Winter” (“Talvella” in Finnish) by Fröbelin Palikat, who apparently make music for children. Anyway, I used this puzzle for the February challenge.
A Peliko moomin puzzle, as usual without a title, featuring Snufkin and Moomintroll fishing. Peliko puzzles are usually terrible quality, but this is a bit older and marginally better than the currently produced puzzles. I still had some false fits, but the quality of the paper used for the image layer was definitely better than now. I approached this as a bit of a chore, but ended up enjoying it much more than I expected to.
For the puzzle challenge, this is No.2, a bridge.
Very enjoyable puzzle. I started with the man-made things, then the sky and the mountain, and last the grass in the foreground. Loved it!
For the puzzle challenge, I originally indended this for No. 11 (recognizable breed of dog, in this case a Flat-Coated Retriever on the jetty), but then I noticed I can use it for No. 24, fits four items. In addition to the dog (No. 11), there is also a mountain (No. 27), a reflection in the lake (No. 3) and a campfire (No. 13).
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