A fantasy map, with a few actual places (Rapa Nui, Thebes), some place names that are almost real (like Africus, Europas) as well as complete fantasy places (like Atlantis, Valhalla). This was actually more challenging than I was expecting, and I’m not sure it was a good idea to start with edges, given the border, but for some reason, I did. I spent quite a lot of time looking at the box with this one.
This was very enjoyable. I like the way the cosy indoor scene is brought into the very traditional landscape. There are photographic puzzles of this exact view, without the indoor scene, of course. Hallstatt is a town in Austria, known for its salt mines.
The blue box sort of jumped out at me, but after that I just kept putting in pieces here and there. As it worked out, I did the text on the left last. Loved it, even though I can’t sew to save my life 😀
I really loved this image of a child’s desk! The vinyl discs, the radio and the paper 3D-glasses puts this somewhere in the past, maybe the 80s (although the radio looks older). There’s a single puzzle piece below the baseball 😀 Unfortunately, there was no indication of an artist on the box. Quality was great, as usual with Clementoni. I think I’ll keep this one.
UPDATE: Hurrayforpuzzles told me that it’s an Aimee Stewart image. I guess I should have known.
Posting is late, but I worked on this on the actual anniversary of the shipwreck, which is the night between April 14 and 15. I’ve done at least five Titanic-themed puzzles over the years, but this was the last still in my to-do pile.
The quality was really good for a Master Pieces puzzle – they can be a bit hit and miss.
Titanic White Star, Master Pieces, 1000 pieces. Completed on April 15, 2024.
This is a puzzle from the Ravensburger Circle of Colors series. I worked the puzzle from the inside out, and didn’t look at the box image, because it just didn’t seem helpful with this puzzle. The changing colours were enough of a guide what to look for next. I was expecting the edges to be a bit difficult, but with the excellent Ravensburger cut, that was quite easy, too. Very enjoyable puzzle!
“Threaten by a Foreign Crunch” is what it says on the box, but I would translate the Finnish title as “Threatened by external danger” or “When an external danger threatens”. The duck certainly looks terrified.
Anyway, I enjoyed the puzzle a lot. I did the duck and the window first, and then I was afraid it would become difficult, but the cut was good and there was still enough differences in shade.
This was the last of the Stenvall duck puzzles, there are 30 in all. I started collecting them in early 2019, and by the summer I already had 29 of the 30 puzzles. I had to wait until January 2021 before I got the last one. Now that I’ve completed them all I’m going to sell them to make room for new puzzles. Here they all are:
This is the only Kaj Stenvall painting I’ve seen with no Finnish title. Given the duck as a turkey, the flag on the wall reminiscent of the American flag, and the title, it seems to be a reference to the American holiday of Thanksgiving, but as usual, I have no idea what the message is supposed to be.
The puzzle itself was one of the easiest in the series, and I did it pretty much in one sitting. Unfortunately, two missing pieces. This is puzzle #29/30 in the series, and amazingly, these are the first missing pieces that I’ve had. Getting really close to the end of the duck puzzles now, just one to go!
This was a really fun to do, I enjoyed it a lot! You can’t see it in the photo, but the duck is holding a paint brush (the kind you use for art), and I think the everything except the duck and the floor he is standing on is a painting that he has just finished.
There is no information about the image on the box, so I don’t know if this is an actual ancient image or something more recent. As a puzzle, it was quite challenging, especially the white background and the hieroglyphs.
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