New 18,000 piece version of the Sistine Chapel from Educa

Sistine Chapel - 18,000pc, Educa
Educa's fresh new photography of worlds most recognized ceiling

Michelangelo would be proud of the monstrous new offering from Educa. This fresh take on the familiar ceiling is the largest puzzle of his work measuring 10.5ft long by 5ft wide! Educa's former release of 8000pc at 8ft by 3ft is dwarfed by comparison. We own the 8000pc version and are working on it as we speak. I don't normally like to redo puzzles in a larger format, but I will be making an exception for this big boy!


Here is an interactive map of the puzzle. Zoom in and out and use your mouse to pan left to right. You can view it in its own full window here

Big Wine, The Kitty, M's first and Breaking Out the Sistine

M celebrating completing her first 1500 piece puzzle all by herself!

So its been kinda quiet over here! Sorry! We have been puzzling but its been more M than me. M finished up her Summer Porch puzzle! It looks fantastic! Our neighbor got a kitten and she has spends a lot of time with us these days. She is a bit rambunctious and  a little too curious about the puzzle table! In 2 seconds, she can have the time of her life and destroy days of puzzling!

I have been in a bit of puzzling funk, I think I am mentally blocked by all the missing pieces in the Wedding Feast and its overall difficulty level is really a pain lately. It seems like a chore to do and I have been opting to spend time on my studies or the Eternity II puzzle.

M decided she was going to motivate me to puzzle by working on the Sistine Chapel, and I have to say, it's working! She laid out the open "bag" of pieces yesterday. When she started, she said, thats funny, why do these 4 ziplock bags say 500,500,500 and 469? Well, it looked like they were the counts of the pieces in the bag from the previous owner. 469? That is A - a long ways from what should be 500 (indeed this is a 8000 piece puzzle in 4 bags so the sum of these parts better equal 2000) and its an odd number! Well, I guess we will see! Its kind of torture, this puzzle is so beautiful and colorful (unlike the Trionfo 8000) and I have to finish Wedding Feast and the 6000 Creation of Adam before I can work on it! Time to get busy!

The kitty (her name is Carib) is checking out M's completed Summer Porch and is eying the Wedding Beast!

New Puzzle Day: Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel 8000pc

New Puzzle day is one of my favorite kind of days! Today was a really good new puzzle day. Two puzzles showed up from ebay. One of which is Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel – 8000pc from Educa! This puzzle never looks like much when you see it online because the image is too big to be done justice. I went ahead and created in interactive map of it so you can explore this fascinating work. Everyone has seen a few of these panels (Creation of Man) but have you really seen the whole thing?

The puzzle version when assembled is roughly 9 feet long by 3 feet tall! It comes in 4 bags of 2000 pieces and should be relatively easy to assemble based on the section size and colors! I can’t wait to assemble this big boy!

Below is the interactive map: Double click to zoom in and click and drag to move the image around (You can also use the controls in the upper right)