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Victorian Letters - Springbok 500
My cousin Sharon and her husband Dave visited on their way back to Minnesota and she brought me three beautiful puzzles. We completed the candy one first. SOMEONE couldn't control herself and finished the lovely Victorian one without the other's help. Hmm....I think a grievance should be filed. And we felt like world travelers once we finished Bon Voyage. It looked like it would be super easy.....but not quite.
Sweet Yesterdays - Springbok 500
We are in a diet contest for the month of April. It was an exercise in 'fun and restful' after laboring through THE DOLPHIN puzzle. But it did whet our appetites for CANDY!!! Suzanne's downfall is Peanut M & M's (currently the Easter ones) and Twizzler Cherry Bites. Thanks, Sharon, for the fun and enticing puzzle!
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Charles Wysocki's Whaler Bay - 1000 6/1/13
This was "piece of cake" after Bev Doolittle's challenging work. Suzanne sorted yesterday and brought Ruth "homework" before going to work. Today she carried over what she had finished, and while crossing the street found yet another piece of Purple Madness! Surprised, she stopped suddenly and lost several pieces of this one off the board. Between Suzanne, Ricia and Ruth this was completed today. However, there are four missing pieces. Anyone want to volunteer to do some intense street and gravel searching?
Miss Minutia was strutting her stuff....AGAIN! She picked up a piece and said "See that black dot? It is a bird's beak" and she promptly placed it. Sometimes you just want to SLAP her. Ruth could barely see the infinitesimal speck.
UPDATE: One piece found in Ruth's Driveway......3 now MIA.
UPDATE: Suzanne found another piece by her refrigerator.
La Victoria Arduino Vintage Poster- 1000 Pieces
Vintage Italian coffee advertising art poster for espresso in Italy by Leonetto Cappiello in 1922. Actually the puzzle is none the worse for the water bath other than glue sticking some puzzle backs back on and finding the top for one of them. Doesn't this look like a simple puzzle that would be "piece of cake" to complete....HAH! Looks are certainly deceiving. This was the least fun puzzle we've ever done due to many pieces fit together perfectly but really didn't and we still had unfinished edge pieces when it was almost together.....plus seven pieces were missing so this was trash canned immediately upon completion.
Ravensburger Piccadilly Circus - 1000 8/13/13
We had quite the good time with this one because all the pieces were interesting shapes and the sky was quite a bit different from the snow. This was one of our 50 cent yard sale finds.
Since it is HOT HOT HOT out we decided working this one might make us feel cooler....NOT! But it was worth a try. It doesn't look too interesting but the pieces were all so oddly shaped, we really enjoyed it. We ended up missing one piece. We searched and search to no avail but a week after completion Kurt found it. Of course we blamed him for hiding it. In this heat puzzle pieces get glued to arms, elbows, foreheads etc. and then fall off in various rooms/places so we can't prove that Kurt or Dusty were the culprit.
These two Ravensburger puzzles were garage sale finds at 50 cents each, thanks to Ricia who clued us in where to find them. Suzanne splurged a whole $2.50 to get five puzzles. As puzzle addicts, we were going thru withdrawals so we were desperate! There were no names on these two, just numbers so that was a bit puzzling.
