Tag: 2020

Horizon, 2020-12-06

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A vintage F.X. Schmid produced in Germany. It says Made in West Germany on the box, which dates it no later than 1990, but I think it’s from the mid-eighties, or even earlier. The image is stunning, of course, but as I was doing the sky, I did wonder what on earth I was thinking when I bought this. Pretty difficult, but worth it in the end.

Horizon, F.X. Schmid, 600 pieces. Completed on December 6, 2020.

Most of the pieces where of the shape with two tabs opposite with the occasional “wavy” backs. These two confused me when I was doing the edges 🙂 All of the tabs had a slightly pointy shape, and the cut reminded me of this puzzle.

Idyll, 2020-11-29

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An image by Mordillo with lots of relaxing activities. It was actually a very relaxing puzzle, one of the less busy Mordillo images.

Idyll by Mordillo, Heye, 1000 pieces. Completed on November 29, 2020.

A village surrounded by golfing, fishing and kite-flying. The car on the top of the picture is passing a sign that says Parma, a city in northern Italy that is home to Parmesan cheese and Parma ham.

Landscape painting and a picnic.

The Cosy Shed, 2020-11-10

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No 6 from the Ravensburger My Haven series. This was a great puzzle, with lots of interesting details and room where I think I would feel very much at home. The book that the (almost) unseen person is reading is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë – the text is clear enough to read, and I googled the first sentence 🙂

The Cosy Shed by Steve Read, Ravensburger, 1000 pieces. Completed on November 10, 2020.

There’s plenty of evidence of various hobbies in the image, including puzzles. The one on the bookshelf looks to be another puzzle from the same series, called the Sewing Shed. There’s also a stack of puzzles on to the left on a sideboard (the box on top may not be a puzzle).

There a site called Ancestry Detective open on the laptop, and some genealogy charts on the wall.

The Missing Piece, 2020-11-13

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Wonderful image of two puzzlers looking for that final piece. I’ve had some good Gibsons puzzles lately, but here the quality was not good, I’m afraid. The fit just seemed a bit off, the pieces didn’t fit easily into the placed they belonged. On some tabs the image layer had separated, and this was a new puzzle.

The Missing Piece by Trai Hiscock, Gibsons, 500 pieces. Completed on November 13, 2020.

By the way, that missing piece really is missing, at least I couldn’t find it in the image 🙂

Sherlock, 2020-11-04

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Great Sherlock Holmes themed collage by Cobble Hill. At the bottom there’s a timeline of stories, and there are short presentations of major characters, famous quotes and scences from the stories. The most difficult part was the squiggly Sherlock Holmes text in the middle – I did that last.

Sherlock, Cobble Hill, 1000 pieces. Completed on November 4, 2020
Sounds like a consipracy theorist.
Shocking!

Mariana, 2020-11-07

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Great painting by John Everett Millais from 1851. The woman in the picture, Mariana, is a character in Maesure by Measure by Shakespeare. I love the way the setting and dress is mediaeval, but her pose looks very natural and relaxed. On the table in front of her there is some sort of needlework, and she’s clearely got up to stretch her back a little.

As a puzzle, the left half was great, but the right half was a bit too dark. The puzzle itself was darker than the image on the box.

Mariana by John Everett Millais, Grafika, 1000 pieces.