Thursday evening/Friday project complete! “Pride of Color” by Jongkie, a 500 piece by Buffalo. This was a blast! It’s going to be stunning once it’s hung up! As always, Buffalo's quality is great. I love how this one had a bright, clear, glossy printing- it really makes the artwork pop!

I made some decent progress on my Christmas puzzle before hitting a wall- a big wall made of TONS of brown pieces! For how bright and colorful this image is, there is a deceptive amount of BROWN in there! I’ll get through it, but it’s definitely not as much fun as I’d hoped it would be!

“The Three Graces” however, is a splendid amount of fun! In fact-

I managed to finish it! Everything that was missing from the first pic was done over the course of the five hours I spent looking after my grandmother today. Definitely one of my favs!

Couldn’t resist doing this cute little 300 piece I got from Dollar Tree. “Sunset in Texas” I believe it’s called, by Cardinal. For only a dollar, the quality was pretty darn good. Besides a bit of cardboard separation, it was very nice.

It’s been slow going on my harvest puzzle! I’ve been having a really good time with it, but it has been time consuming for sure. Being so massive, it doesn’t fit on my porta-puzzle board, so I took a new puzzle to start at my grandparents last Thursday!

1000 piece Josephine Wall, I believe called ‘The Three Graces’, by Buffalo.

I made solid progress on it- well, all the really easy bits at least!

But I’ve not worked on it since Thursday, spending the weekend picking at Harvest Colors in between playing the new Warframe patch!

I’m hoping to have this one finished up this week. So many glorious puzzles to do!

It’s always a nice surprise to find a poster inside your puzzle box! I live it when they include them, they’re super helpful!

Decent progress has been made! I was a bit worried about the difficulty of this one, lots of similar colors! But there’s a very visible grain to the canvas, so it’s a bit easier than I anticipated!

Plus, some goodies came today!

When your husband’s like “Hey, I’m making an Amazon order, do you want those puzzles that are in the cart?”. Yes, yes I do! I enjoyed doing “Call of the Sea” so much, I had to invest in some more of her puzzles! I know have 4 others, and a fifth on the way! Super excited to get to them soon!

Picked these two up yesterday from Walmart while I was there picking up frames for the puzzles yesterday. A'Titania’ a 1000 piece from Buffalo Games with art by Josephine Wall, and ‘The Astronomer’ a 750 piece by Master Pieces with art by Miles Pinkney. I was super excited to find another Josephine Wall puzzle, and the wizard was great because it’s an image I had on a calendar from when I was a kid! I couldn’t wait to get started on it once I got the 'Call of the Sea’ off of my board–but I didn’t get very far…

The first thing I noticed was a LOT of pieces still stuck together, which I don’t mind, except they were slightly uncut at the corners, so pulling them apart frayed the edges. And then there were the ones I found in the picture; just not fully cut at all. You couldn’t pull this apart if you tried!

On top of that, these pieces are crazy shaped. Like, practically impossible to distinguish edges from innards. More than half the pieces at least have edges that are nearly flat, but not quite, making it super frustrating to even get started! I guess Master Pieces is known for their bizarre puzzle piece shapes, but it definitely wasn’t appealing.

While I wasn’t really excited for the holographic finish on the pieces, I thought it’d make for an interesting puzzling experience, and I was right in a way… It definitely made it harder! I already struggle with glare from my lighting, and the holographic finish wasn’t helping at all. I ended up bundling up 'The Astronomer’ after a meager attempt to sort and assemble the edges–I plan to contact Master Pieces and express my disappointment in the quality as well!

 

I decided instead to start this gorgeous Ceaco 1000 Piecer, which I believe is called 'Coleman’ s Paradise’ by James Coleman. Just opening it up and getting the pieces out of rhe bag inside the box, I was blown away by the quality. The pieces just feel nice, and every single one was cut through nice and crisply with hardly any remaining together, and those that were seperate with no trouble.

I felt like I made good progress too!