Brand: ColorluxePieces: 1500
Size: 58cm x 84cm
Product Code: -
The winter months are fast approaching in Australia, and that means more and more people are travelling internationally to get away from the winter blues. Although I visited America several years ago on a Contiki tour, I never got the opportunity to visit New York City.
This is one of the places I would love to see in real life one day.
I love musicals and to visit Broadway and see a show or two would be a dream!
Instead, I will have to settle for imagery of the place through jigsaw puzzles! This puzzle from Colorluxe is 1500 pieces and captures the bustle of the busy Broadway streets.
It wasn't very difficult to do, but I did get frustrated with the colour-sorting on the back. This is meant to make the puzzle easier for beginners by allowing them to sort the sections of the puzzle by colour and therefore helping them to work out where each piece goes. But I find the double-sided colour part tedious and annoying- I prefer to simply work from the image!
Regardless, the puzzle turned out well and the pieces fit together nicely.
These are great and cheap puzzles if you want a slightly different design.
Brand: Colorluxe
Pieces: 1500
Size: 58cm x 84cm
Product Code: -
When it's bleak and cold in your home country (winter!) you sometimes need a little sunny-side-pick-me-up. Besides going on a holiday, one way to do this is to do a puzzle with a lovely sunny image that immediately transports you to a warmer climate- hence my puzzle this week of Popeye Village in Malta.
While it doesn't appear to be a tropical location, the beautiful colours of the water and the bright red tiles of the buildings certainly make a difference when considering the dismal weather and overall greyness of life where I live at the moment!
This puzzle was a little bit challenging to do when it came to working the background mountains and some parts of the ocean, but that only made it more interesting. There were plenty of colour shades to keep the design fresh and prevent boredom.
I'd never heard of Popeye Village before, but apparently it's where they filmed the musical production of Popeye, and due to its popularity, they changed the village's former name to reflect that.
I definitely wouldn't mind visiting it!
Brand: Colorluxe
Pieces: 1500
Size: 58cm x 84cm
Product Code: -
Yesterday was National Donut Day, and I'm sad to say that I did not celebrate it in the way it was intended!
I didn't eat any donuts, and I couldn't find any donut designs in my collection of puzzles that I could do and post for the day. I hope to remedy this for next year's event.
In the meantime, I have put up a Colorluxe puzzle of Candy Factory Fairground Concession Stand- the closest puzzle link to sweet foods that I could find in my collection of completed puzzles.
This is one of those puzzles that has the coloured backs for 'easier' sorting, although I find them mildly annoying (particularly if the design is already bright because you may think you've found the piece you're looking for but it's actually just the back of the design).
That said, the puzzle was quite quick to do, with the text surprisingly being the hardest part to piece together.
I also completed this puzzle for the Global Jigsaw Jubilee, as it has a count of 1500 pieces. While it's not that pretty a design, it was good enough for a spur-of-the-moment purchase to continue the Jubilee while I waited for a pre-ordered puzzle to arrive!
Brand: ColorluxePieces: 1500Size: 58cm x 84cmProduct Code: -
As I have mentioned previously in my posts, I live in the state of Victoria in Australia.
Over the last few days, we have experienced extremely hot weather (moving from spring into summer) with about 3-4 days in a row of of temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius.
A few days ago, the Bureau of Meteorology issued an extreme weather warning for Melbourne and most of Victoria, saying that we were going to be hit with a storm that would deliver major floods and damage- the worst we've seen in over 20 years apparently!
At time of writing, we are yet to see much evidence of it, but we've been told it's on its way, and if the scattered showers and radar images on the internet are to be believed, it's not too far off.
Many events in the area have been cancelled already (Geelong's Carols by the Bay and the 2017 Food Truck Festival, sadly), so that's put a 'dampener' on the start of summer (see, what I did there? 'Dampener'? That's pun-tastic!)
Because I don't have any puzzles of storms or rainy scenes (wouldn't a lightning strike puzzle look incredible?), I have decided to post an image instead of a puzzle that was relevant a few days ago, when it was stinking hot. Who doesn't love a variety of ice cream flavours? The above puzzle celebrates all things ice cream, with many different flavours and colours in cups and cones.
This puzzle took me longer to do than I expected. I thought it would be easy to work by colours for each ice cream flavour but there were actually a lot of similar colours, which made this task a bit more difficult. The backs of these puzzle pieces are coloured to make sorting easier, and I actually had to refer to this a few times to work out what went where!
Besides that, the pieces fit well together and the image was quite pleasant to create.
Brand: ColorluxePieces: 1500Size: 58cm x 84cmProduct Code: 3911
During the week I had to travel to Melbourne for some blood tests at St Vincent's Hospital.
My test was an early 8.30am one (which I had to fast before), but this meant that I had to leave my house at 5.25am to catch the 5.54am train, in order to get there in time.
And because I was fasting, that meant no coffee.
Now, I don't usually rely on coffee to wake me up in the mornings. I just like the taste. But not being able to drink any, while walking the streets of Melbourne to get to the hospital, was a more difficult task than I had anticipated! The smell of freshly brewing coffee was everywhere!
Luckily I was able to get my fix (no, I'm not addicted) not long after the tests were concluded, but as a homage to coffee-lovers everywhere, I have decided to put up this puzzle.
This puzzle was unique, in that the back of the puzzle was colour-coded in sections. This was meant to aid in the sorting of pieces so that the puzzle could be completed more easily. Although I mostly ignored this, it did help on occasions when there were similar colours (like browns and tans) that could be situated almost anywhere in the design. It could also be a tad frustrating though, especially when you thought you had found a particular colour (like blue for example), and it was actually a blue-backed piece, rather than part of the design background.
I quite enjoyed doing this puzzle. The collage-style was engaging and there were many points of interest within the design. It certainly helped cheer me up after my coffee deprivation!
Brand: Colorluxe
Pieces: 1000
Size: 51cm x 68cm
Product Code: 1500
Happy New Year!
Well, technically, it's not the new year yet, but we're pretty close now, so why not?!
2016 has been a whirlwind of a year! So many (good and bad) things have happened this year- on a personal level, and on a global scale. We've seen governments form and fall, a multitude of famous icons pass away and plenty of other historic events that my mind can't actually fathom at this time in the morning (but you've also lived through this year so you know what I'm talking about 😉).
On the puzzle front, I have had a pretty good year. I have managed to keep this blog (as well as my Instagram posts) going consistently every week since July, which shows that a little dedication can go a long way. I have also managed to work my way through quite a few puzzles in this time, although there are never enough hours in the day! Especially when you have to go to work, make time for family and friends and pursue other pastimes as well. I have a huge amount of puzzles I still have to do, and I have to make a conscious effort not to expand my collection before I finish a few more!
This will be my last post for 2016, as I will be off camping for the New Year. I tried to find a suitably celebratory puzzle to do but unfortunately, I couldn't find any in my stash. Where are all the fireworks etc puzzles when you need them?! So I instead settled on this one, of vintage soda bottlecaps. I know I'm making a tenuous link here, but people drink on NYE and these are bottlecaps, so it sort of works! This puzzle was really quick to do, because of the colour sections and the high quality pieces.
I hope you have a fantastic and safe New Year, celebrating with family and friends, and that 2017 brings you joy, happiness and plenty of jigsaw-puzzling time!
xo
