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| John Powell: Summer Porch - 1500pc, Big Ben Purchased from Humane Society St Thomas USVI for $2.00 on 4/6/2013
Started: 7/27/3013
Finished: 9/1/2013
Notes: The colors of this puzzle are truly vibrant! M built this all on her own! Her largest puzzle alone to date!
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| Luca Giordano: Trionfo degli Asburgo (The Triumph of the Spanish Habsburgs) - 8000pc Educa Purchased from ebay for $129 on 7/2013
Started: 7/20/2013 - Finished: 7/30/2013
Assembled by: Tom (View Posts)
Notes: Came 75% assembled.
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| Color Palette - 1000pc, Master Pieces Available from Amazon.com Started: 7/15/2013 - Finished: 7/26/2013 Assembled by: Mercedes (View Posts) Notes: M's first 1000pc puzzle all by herself! |
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| Life, The Greatest Puzzle (Section A) - 6,000pc, EDUCA Available from Amazon.com Purchased from ebay for $200 on 5/10/2013 Assembled By: Tom and Mercedes (View Posts) Build Time Section A: 6/19/2013 - 7/14/2013 (25 days) Build Time Section B: --- Build Time Section C: --- Build Time Section D: --- Notes: This M's favorite puzzle. |
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| Machu Picchu - 500pc (Available at Amazon.com) Gift from M's mom for my 37th birthday Started: 7/3/2013 - Finished: 7/5/2013 Assembled By: Tom and Mercedes (View Posts) Notes: Worlds smallest 500pc puzzle and extremely difficult. |
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| Mickey Mouse Montage - 500pcs, Mega Puzzles Challenge Series (Available at Amazon.com) Purchased at K-Mart in Plymouth, MI on 3/26/2010 for $9.00 Started: 6/31/2013 - Finished: 7/1/2013 Assembled By: Tom and Mercedes (View Posts) Notes: Neat puzzle with the Mickey mouse shapes and limited piece shapes and repeating pattern. We put this together on the beach! |
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| Krypt(Silver) - 645pc, Ravensburger(Available at Amazon.com) Purchased from Amazon.com for $15.99 on 4/18/2013 Started: 6/12/2013 - Finished: 6/21/2013 Assembled by: Tom (View Posts) Notes: Did not work on this continuously, all together about 9-10hours of assembly. It's not as hard as you might think, the pieces are really distinct and the finished product sure does look cool. |
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| Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Battle of Carnival and Lent - 707pc from Liberty Puzzles Purchased from Card Kingdom in Seattle, WA for $129 on 5/14/2013 Started: 5/16/2013 Finished: 5/17/2013 Assembled by: Tom and Mercedes Notes: Our first wooden puzzle and it was really fantastic! You can view our posts about it here. |
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| The West Indies - 500pc by PostCardUSA Purchased from Tourist Shop - Havensight - ST Thomas for $15.00 on 5/1/2013
Started: 6/9/2013
Completed: 6/9/2013
Assembled by: Tom and Mercedes
Notes: A the wind blew pieces off the table into the forest, I spent 3 hours finding 3 pieces.
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| The Unicorn In Captivity - 500pc Started: 6/5/2013 Competed: 6/7/2013 Assembled by: Tom Notes: We did this puzzle and gave it to our friend Laura |
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Heronim: Bridges of San Francisco - 1000pc, Mega Puzzles
Purchased at Meijer, Canton MI for $4.00 on 2/14/2013
Started: 6/4/2013
Finished 6/5/2013
Assembled By: Tom and Mercedes Notes: We like this one a lot better than the first SF Heronim we did |
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| Section "D" of 4 Historical Maps - 4500 pieces of 18000, Ravensburger Started: 5/11/2013 Completed: 5/31/2013 Assembled By: Tom and Mercedes |
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| City Door - 750pc, Purchased from Hobby Lobby in Plymouth, MI
Started: 5/28/2013
Completed: 5/302013 Assembled By: Mercedes with her Mom and Sissy |
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| Aimee Stewart: The Dreaming Tree - 750pc, Mega Puzzles Reflections K-Mart in Plymouth, MI 3/26/2013 $8.00
Started: 5/9/2013
Completed: 5/10/2013 Assembled By: Tom, Mercedes and Tessa Notes: We built this puzzle with our headlamps when we lost power. |
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Effervescently Yours - 500pc, Springbook (Out of Print)
Thrift Store - Livonia, MI $2.00 2/12/2013
Started: 5/7/2013 Finished: 5/7/2013 Assembled by: Tom Notes: I really liked this puzzle. I thought it would be harder but the shapes are a throw back to a wooden puzzle and made the totally black sections extremely doable (Versus cocktails). It also makes me very thirsty every time I see it. |
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Cocktails - 1000pc, Piatnik
http://www.seriouspuzzles.com/i13296.asp
Purchased: simplepastimes.com $15.00 2/15/2013
Started Friday: 4/12/2013 Built By: Tom, Mercedes and Tessa Completed: 4/17/2013 Notes: This puzzle was really hard. I will think twice before getting another Piatnik puzzle with a lot of solid color in it. The shape variation is poor and made solving black extremely difficult. |
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| Beach Hammocks in Cozumel Mexico - 500pc, Big Ben Purchased from the Humane Society in St Thomas for $2.00 Started: 4/9/2013. Assembled by: Tom and Mercedes Completed: 4/10/2013 Notes: This is our first puzzle in St. Thomas!!! |
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Sour Gummies - 500pc, Puzzlebug
Purchased from Goodwill, Canton MI for $1.99 on 2/16/2013
Started 3/25/2013
Assembled by: Mary Lytle, Mercedes, Tom, Terra Finished 3/27/2013 Notes: Cheap and fun
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| Art 30129 Lighthouse - 1000pc, Clementoni (Out of Print) Purchased from Thrift Store - Livonia, MI for $2.00 on 2-12-2013 Started: 3/25/2013 Assembled by: Tom Finished: 3/25/2013 Notes: Assembled in 4 hours. I thought a piece was missing, but it was just upside down and I thought it was a sky piece. Classic Clementoni shapes. |
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| Section "A": Double Retrospect (4,000 of 32,000)pc, Ravensburger Started: 1/31/2013 Completed: 3/23/2013 Assembled By: Tom and Mercedes |
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| Venice Canel - 500pc, Big Ben Purchased from Goodwill, Grand Rapids MI for $1.99 on 2/9/2013 Started: 2-13-2013 Assembled by: Tom, Mercedes and Darwin Finished: 2-14-2013 Notes: Nothing of interest here, it was a pretty ho-hum puzzle. Darwin insisted on "helping" |
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| Pencil Collage - 1000pc, White Mountain http://www.seriouspuzzles.com/i8927.asp Purchased from Real Toys, Plymouth MI for $18.00 on Feb 6th Started: 2/9/2013 Assembled By: Mercedes and Tom Finished: 2/12/2013 Notes: This puzzle was super hard for me, but really easy for M. We enjoyed this one a lot |
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| Shoes! - 1000pc, Springbok http://www.seriouspuzzles.com/i15998.asp Purchased from Hobby Lobby, Canton MI for $20.00 1/28/2013 Started: Feb 4th 2013 Assembled by: Tom and Mercedes, Corinne Completed: Feb 9th 2013 Notes: This puzzle was a lot of fun, large pieces, we didnt allow ourselves to look at the box, M's mom came over and got hooked and the girls rocked it out! |
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| Donuts - 1000pc, Cobble Hill http://www.seriouspuzzles.com/i12695.asp Purchased from Hobby Lobby, Canton MI for $20.00 1/28/2013 Started: 1/29/2013 Finished: 1/30/2013 Notes: We really enjoyed this puzzle. The shapes were very unique, it makes initial solving difficult, but in the later stages, its is much much faster. Completed in about 10hours total. (Tom and Mercedes) |
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| Palace Fine Arts - 1000pc Puzzle, Mega Puzzles Purchased from Hobby Lobby, Canton MI for $5.00 1/28/2013 Started:January 28th, 2013 Assembled by: Tom and Mercedes Finished: January 29th 2013 Notes: Pieces were boring shapes, but the color was good and it was super cheap |
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| Las Vegas (Glow in the Dark) - 750pc, Buffalo Games XMAS Present from M 2012 Started:December 28th, 2012 Assembled by: Tom and Mercedes Finished: January 27th 2013 Notes: This is our first puzzle together. What a trouble maker this puzzle is! |
