Flower power camper van!

I’m a sucker for anything with mushrooms on it, so when I came across this one at the thrift store, it was an easy decision. The art has a weird, early 2000s CGI rendering style mixed with some other illustration styles and textures.

It was a fairly quick assembly as it had standard cut pieces, with the slight twist of more squarish heads and shoulders. The fit was a little loose for my taste but the quality of the cardboard and printing were pretty good. It was printed in Korea and came with a full sized poster print in the box! I have never seen this brand ChamberArt before, but they have a few others on Amazon.

I actually did this one nearly two months ago, but didn’t take any photos because it was missing one piece. So we admired it on the table for a week before broke it into sections and put it back in the box. But that’s not the end of the story! Fast forward to today, I am spring cleaning the living room and pulled the couch away from the wall to vacuum and find a lonely, dust bunny covered puzzle piece hiding all by himself. The puzzle faeries have playing mischief again! There in no logical reason for it to be there, nearly 15’ away from where the puzzle table gets set up. That mystery will remain unsolved but the puzzle will finally be completed. I pulled out box, assembled the sections, and triumphantly dropped in the prodigal puzzle piece. Finished!

Nothing beats a Sunday afternoon singing along to music while working on a jigsaw puzzle. Made me realise I should put together a playlist for when I do this and got me wondering if anyone else has a set list to listen to when puzzling?

Overall above average difficulty. Really cool scene with a lot to look at and hunt for! Enjoyed this one.

I love the colors in this one.

I love Ingrid Slyder’s whimsical illustrations and I was so happy to find this puzzle at the thrift store, in such good condition and complete!

Artist:???

I was excited to build this puzzle. I found it at a thrift store. I love space related puzzles. I have wanted to get round planet puzzles but couldn't justify the cost when I have a huge backlog of puzzles.

Not sure if this was worth it. The puzzle had the worst false fits I have seen in a puzzle for years. It is the first time I can remember having a false fit that fit on three of the 4 edges. The fact that the colors are so similar made it an even larger problem.

Each piece was around the size of a American dime. Shiny finish.

The final result looks great.

A pleasure to complete, bright colours, great subject matter! Aimee Stewart is a wonderful puzzle artist, I follow her on Instagram.

Flowers galore

Second puzzle of the day, worked in far more scattered sessions than the first! The quality on this puzzle is crazy. Absolutely no glare, and the piece adhesion was unreal. Gorgeous feel, and it comes with a print of the image on cardboard, no flimsy annoying posters!!

A few weeks ago someone mentioned that this puzzle was a joy to do, and I hadn't tried Antelope yet, so I bought it, and spent yesterday and today putting it together.

It was indeed a joy!

The pieces were firm, no dust, easyish with just enough challenge (I like the peace of puzzles when they're smooth to put together). There was only one false connection and it was a distracted move on my part.

I love the art,

It came with a reusable bag, which is awesome. There are so many things happening in the image!

I just saw that Ravensburger used an artwork by Noemi Ibarz for the pairs final at the US nationals.

If you like that kind of artwork, Enjoy Puzzle (in my opinion one of the best puzzle brands out there) did a whole series of puzzles with her artwork, which are also available in larger piece counts.

Lovely puzzle! It had some challenging bits, but was very fun to work on.

I really like the artwork. The artist is Carlos Gamez de Francisco and I did not know about him previously. I love it when I learn about amazing artists when I work on puzzles! He has a great website that has some short clips of live painting. He paints with both hands and even has some clips where he is blind folded while painting - https://www.carlosgamezdefrancisco.com/media

This was fun. The upper half was more challenging than the bottom half, for sure!

Loved this one!