This is probably the best puzzle image by Thomas Kinkade that I’ve ever seen – most of his stuff has far too much vegetation for my taste. This was really nice, though, and I liked that I was able to do it top to bottom.

For my puzzle challenge, this is #9, a puzzle that slipped into your cart (I was supposed to buy something else, no puzzles, but somehow, I ended up with this).

I didn’t quite know what to expect from this, I’ve never done a puzzle quite like this before. Fortunately, it didn’t turn out to be all that difficult, and the hardest part was the middle.

I don’t have much to say about this, except it was great quality as usual fron Schmidt, and great fun.

There are lot of puzzles with paintings by Thomas Kinkade, but I think this is the first I’ve done. I got it cheap (3 EUR for a factory sealed copy), but I was expecting it to be really difficult. It wasn’t, really, and my dislike of green vegetation seems to be mostly about photographic images. The great quality helped too, of course. Like many Schmidt puzzles, it had a rather tight fit, which is pleasant while assembling, but a bit annoying when taking the puzzle apart. Anyway, I loved it!

I needed something colourful after that snow, and this was a great “palate cleanser”. Schmidt puzzles are excellent quality, and the fit is also tight enough to move around “islands” easily. Loved it!

I don’t have much to say about this one, but it was a nice little puzzle.

Schmidt currently has a series of puzzles with images of candy from German candy manufacturer Haribo. Most of them – in fact all except this – look way too difficult. There’s one with a heap of gummy bears – and they’re not sorted according to colour. With this, of course, it was easy to pick out the pieces for the various stripes, although assembling them turned out to be a bit more challenging than I had expected. Still, a really nice puzzle, I loved it.

A world map that’s been sitting in my to-do pile since 2007. The quality was good (it’s a Schmidt, they are even better now). Putting together the continents was fairly easy, I’ve done so many maps that I’ve become pretty good at it. The water is always more difficult, and this was true even though they had done a good job of marking a lot of currents and small islands, so that there were virtually no pieces with just water and nothing else. The dark blue border was also harder than I expected.