Today’s post is more of an opinion piece where I’d like to get your thoughts on a topic I struggle with most of the time. Grab your favorite beverage and sit back — this is a long one! Have you ever quit on a puzzle before it’s finished? Up until very recently, I really had not quit a puzzle midway through in an extremely long time. It is not something I like to do as I truly feel if I…
This was the first puzzle I did in the Abandoned Series by Ravensburger. I absolutely love the looks of each puzzle in the series. I have four of them, but there may be one or two more out there now, I’m not sure. I did this puzzle during a visit from my bestest buddy since kindergarten. She flew out with her son Logan around New Year’s Eve 2022. My mother had passed away at age 83 on December 21 that…
One of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons was The Flinstones. I loved watching them, Scooby Doo, The Jetsons, Tom and Jerry, Richie Rich, and a few others. I would get up early on Saturday, by 7 a.m. usually, grab some cereal, and park myself on the couch for several hours of back to back cartoons starting with Superfriends. It was probably my favorite day of the week back then. This Ravensburger puzzle was a ton of fun to assemble and…
Dean MacAdam produces some really adorable jigsaw puzzle images. Mostly with fun, fairytale themes like this one of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The images are whimsical, cute, funny, and pretty easy to put together. I did this puzzle quite some time ago, then set it aside for Stacey and just recently found it again when I was going through the massive effort of organizing my puzzle collection / closet before our house full of company arrived. For some reason…
The moment I first laid eyes on this puzzle I knew I had to have it. It combines two of my favorite puzzle themes — Christmas and buildings in a big, beautiful and wonderful way. I absolutely adore the artwork and how amazing each of the cookies look. They’re so detailed. I especially love all the little cars throughout the scene. Each house was very unique and therefore pretty easy to pick out and assemble. I sorted the houses initially…
I did this puzzle years ago, way before it became one of the most common Speed Puzzling puzzles out there. I have seen it many times on various You Tube puzzlers’ channels that I like. While I certainly did not do this as a speed puzzle, it was a quick and easy build and one I was able to knock out in a single puzzling session. Having now been to London I can appreciate this image even more. We did…
I love most Pixar movies and a good chunk of the Disney movies out there as well. Of course there was a long period before Iger came on as the CEO of Disney where they put out a bunch of crappy movies. But once Iger took over and formed the partnership with Pixar things took a big turn for the better. 😊 When I saw this adorable puzzle I thought — this one would be a lot of fun to…
I first saw this adorable image on Stacey’s My Jigsaw Journal blog and fell in love with it. I think this was one of the rare puzzles that she had already given to someone else so I was going to have to purchase it myself if I wanted to do it. It took me a long time to actually hit the purchase button as there were so many other puzzles out there I wanted even more — if you can…
Cozy Bathroom was the first puzzle I tried and completed in the Cozy Series and this was done several years ago. To say I loved it would be a bit of an understatement. This puzzle made me giddy with delight! It’s so vividly bright, colorful, and just all out adorable in my opinion. It was a quick and easy build with the added pleasure of being a typical, excellent quality Ravensburger image. I absolutely love the color palette in this…
Clearly it does not pay for me to step away from the blog for so long. I wrote up this “new” blog post last night thinking I had never talked about it before because when I did my initial search of the blog I did not find the original post. But, after going through a few of my older posts – circa 2020, low and behold there it was. Funny enough I said a lot of the same things below…