Readers Paradise Complete!

"Readers Paradise" 1000 Piece by White Mountain. I had a lot of fun with this one, and it helped me through a difficult time.

I was pretty pleased with the quality of White Mountian's pieces. Nicely cut, and they snapped together fairly well. As someone else suggested, I took a rolling pin to it when it was finished, and I've never had a puzzle be SO FLAT before- I'll definitely be doing that with ALL my puzzles from now on!

This "Readers Paradise" was absolutely jam packed with little details too. Cats sleeping on the stairs, a mouse hiding among the shelves, titles and cover art on a lot of the books. The printing was crisp and clear too, which makes the art all the better!

I'd definitely recommend this one! I'll happily pick up another White Mountain puzzle the next time one of their images strikes my fancy.

Decided to start this one next: "Flower Delivery" 1000 pieces by Milton Bradley. Really impressed with it's quality as well, and overall production value. The box is really nice, covered inside as well as out, and it was with a resealable bag to put the pieces back into when complete (not that I do that myself) and a cardboard contraption called a 'box easel'. It holds the box upright for you at a good viewing angle to see the image. I don't know if I'll use it or not, but what a neat idea!

This week's been tough for me, and puzzles have really helped get me through, and will continue to help I'm sure. I'm very thankful to have such a pleasant hobby to turn too when I need it.

Hello, and Welcome!

Howdy howdy! I'm Puzzled Pickle, a jigsaw puzzle enthusiast! I've decided to move my jigsaw blog to Blogger today. I've been posting to Tumblr for a few months, but they've recently decided to purge all adult content from their systems. Obviously, that shouldn't affect my very not adult blog in the slightest, but whatever algorithm auto scans all their images decided to flag a bunch of my jigsaw pictures as adult and hide them! That's super not cool, and I don't have time for that sort of nonsense!

I've transferred all my old posts (by hand, oiy) over to here, hence the slew of 'new posts' listed as being from today. They actually span over the last few months. Anyway, I'll be continuing here from now on! Maybe I can even find more jigsaw puzzle peeps here too!

I woke up bright and unusually early Saturday morning; what better time than to enjoy the peace and quiet of a sleeping house, a nice cup of hot coffee, and a jigsaw puzzle accompanied by podcasts? I've really been looking forward to starting this one, "Readers Paradise" a 1000 piece by White Mountain. I've yet to do a White Mountain puzzle, but I've heard good things from the jigsaw groups on Facebook, so I'm excited!

So far White Mountain reminds me a lot of Ravensburger. The cardboard is nice and thick, and has that nice blue backing. My particular copy of this one has a few pieces that weren't cut through all the way, but only a very small number, so I'm not displeased at all. Everything's been snapping together nicely for the most part, and it's been very enjoyable!

I've also had this lovely little boats puzzle by Cardinal kicking around on my desk for the last few days, though I haven't worked on it much yet- just been too busy! I'll get to it though. The tiny little pieces are hilarious and fun to work with, and I can't wait to have it completed to hang up somewhere. The art is just stunning!

Speaking of hanging puzzle sup, I recently redecorated the walls around my office space!

I'm so pleased with how it's come out so far. The bright, perky colors definitely put you in a good mood when you sit down to work!