Cocktail Time

This puzzle was super-fun — even when one of my cats stood on my precariously balanced puzzle board and knocked it over. The puzzle wasn’t hard — biggish pieces, bright colors & chunks of background, lots of words … but really enjoyable. I enjoy some vintage nostalgia (but note that people of color existed back […]
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Terrarium Cat

Cobble Hill 1000-piece. I wanted to finish the cat first, as is befitting, but sure enough, I ended up doing all the more distinctive pieces first and getting the dark body of the Siamese last ….
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Cat on a Toilet

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Sneakers Puzzle

Best pair of shoes I ever wore
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Tartans of Scotland

“Oh, Scottish tartans! That’s great — I can learn famous tartans while I puzzle.” Educational puzzling! In retrospect, I am left with the question — Why did I even want to learn famous tartans? (I mean, I know: An over-abundance of fiction glorifying the Highlands and what-not ….) This 1000-piece puzzle was truly difficult. One […]
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Peggy Collins “Worship of Trees”

For a 500-piece puzzle, this was surprisingly difficult — the stained gloss blockings have many similar colors, and all the black outlines combined with similar colors made color-matching challenging! Satisfyingly challenging.
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Rex Ray “Mylopronesta”

Rex Ray, “Mylopronesta” – 1000 pieces, Pomegranate Finished March 9, 2023. Gorgeous, and a real pleasure to look at closely while assembling it. Fairly easy, with the distinct colors — similar colors and shapes had to be sorted out, but there were so many unique colors and shape combinations that it wasn’t hard. The chains […]
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Cavallini Vintage Bicycles

My friend Nancy graciously allowed me to join her in the completion of the fun Vintage Bicycles puzzle!2023/03/05
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Tomasz Pietrzyk “Clocks”

Jan. 21, 2023 So pretty! Hard to choose which side to work on because they’re both really lovely to look at. Luckily, you don’t have to — you can work on a chunk, and then flip it if necessary. Ash and I did this one together, in about 90 minutes or less. Not very difficult, […]
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Encanto

Ash finished a beautiful (1000-piece) Encanto puzzle, xmas gift from grandparents. Video of the final insertions!
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2022 puzzling

Lots of puzzling this year … Puzzles with Posts Other puzzles! LQ favorites this year
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Sandra Boynton Cows

Xmas gift for Ash 2022, for the cow-theme! (There are not as many cow-themed puzzles as one might imagine.) 1000-piece puzzle from Workman Puzzles. Ash did it fairly quickly …
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various cat puzzles

A bunch of cat puzzles Ash did in late 2022
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3000 piece Spongebob puzzle completed!

Spongebob 3000

Ash finally finished the 3,000 piece Spongebob puzzle …. and then did it again several times!
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Diego Mazzeo “Mechanical Griffin”

Ash and moms did this in Spring/Summer 2022. Really fun, with a fun extra-whimsical whimsy.207-pieces, Artifact Puzzles. Artifact: “This is a cool 207 piece wooden jigsaw puzzle of Argentinian artist Diego Mazzeo’s steampunk digital artwork. Our puzzle pieces are themed to the artwork with steampunk whimsy pieces and an irregular gear-shaped edge (which cuts out […]
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Dragon Moon

This description is absolutely correct — the baying-wolf cut pieces are crazy! But it was fun and intricate. Completed some time in late spring, early summer 2022. Artifact 258-piece puzzle: 11″x15″ “This is a 258 wooden jigsaw puzzle of “Dragon Moon” by Methane Studios. The stark beauty of the art is paired with a puzzle […]
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Bruce Riley, Stem Cell

Another June 5 puzzle that A and I did together. Artifact Puzzles, “Stem Cell” by Bruce Riley. Pretty image! Artifact description: This is a 191 piece wooden jigsaw puzzle of Bruce Riley’s painting “Stem Cell”. Designed by Tara Flannery, the themed whimsies and miniature hexagonal connectors coupled with psychedelic colors and abstract shapes make for […]
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Alfredo Arraguin “Jaguars”

This puzzle was … so hard. As it turns out, it was hard (in part) because it was a diptych — two sides of a puzzle — but they had printed the left side twice. So, one of the tricks of the puzzle is that the right-side puzzle mirrors the left-side puzzle in piece shape. […]
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Awa Tsireh “Animal Designs”

Fun, easy, quick to do. Ash and I did it. Awa Tsireh, 1898-1955. His unpublished works should enter the public domain, soon! And here it is at the Smithsonian! “Awa Tsireh, Animal Designs, ca. 1917-1920, watercolor on paper, sheet: 20 x 26 1⁄8 in. (50.9 x 66.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corbin-Henderson Collection, gift of Alice H. Rossin, 1979.144.35″ Artifact Puzzles: 6.75″ x […]
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Justin Hillgrove “Pursuit of Happiness”

Very easy, and fast. Artifact Puzzles: “This is a 72 piece “big pieces” wooden jigsaw puzzle of Justin Hillgrove’s Pursuit of Happiness, suitable for little kids or the elderly. Includes cartoony monster-shaped pieces (puzzle design by Tara Flannery and Ben Goldman). We also offer a 185 piece version of this same image. This puzzle has a […]
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