Glacier and the Tower

NEW PUZZLE DAY! I love new puzzle days! Today the first 6000 piece Schmidt big boy showed up! It's a photograph of a glacier! This big bad boy is gonna be hard! The pieces are a great shape with skewed standard shapes and a wide range of scallops!

A few days ago, Gabor Szittya's Tower of Babel 6000pcs by Nathan arrived from San Diego! It's a great interpretation of the original work by Bruegel (we also own the 9000pc version of that one). The pieces have a very large lengthwise bias! I love the image of this one and look forward to it very much!

Hope all is well on your end! Anybody puzzling out there?

-Thomas

Glacier - 6000pc Schmidt
Purchased from ebay for $1.00 on 8/1/2013

Glacier pieces close up. Now that is a landscape for you!

Tower of Babel - 6000pc, Nathan
Purchased from private owner in San Diego 8-1-2013

Tower of Babel close up, the pieces have a strong lengthwise bias!

Tower of Babel

Normally new puzzle day is an awesome day, today, it sucked. The puzzle had pieces falling out from the post office box. The previous owner did not seal the loose bag of pieces and between shipping from Germany to the USVI and customs, the puzzle did not look to be in good shape.

I spent 4 hours counting every piece of the open bag and sure enough, the puzzle is missing two pieces. Its not the end of the world, but I really hate missing pieces. Its on my top 10 list of things I hate. I really hate missing 2 pieces when you pay $150 for a puzzle even more...

Well, hopefully we can work something out with the seller. I offered to settle things if they pay 30USD for the puzzle doctor if I cant make a piece.

About the puzzle:

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Tower of Babel 9000pc from Ravensburger
Purchased from ebay Germany for $150 5/15/2013

Tower of Babel, the irony and counting

I don't ever count a puzzle as in the closet until it is actually in the closet. Today, after a month, the Pieter Bruegel the Elder 's Tower of Babel (9000pc from Ravensburger) showed up today even though the tracking page says it is still in Germany... The irony is I have had  a tuff time communicating with the seller regarding this puzzle as I complained that it was seriously delayed. When I picked up the puzzle from the post office, I could HEAR pieces rattling around (not a good sound when you are expecting a sealed puzzle) and a piece literally fell out!

So close, but no cigar! I am hoping to get a refund because either the seller did not properly ship the puzzle (NOTE: If you are shipping an opened puzzle, make sure to put lose pieces in some sort of sealable bag, being in a box is not guarantee of safe delivery) or it was damaged in shipping/customs. Either way, its the sellers problem.

I am however, taking the time to count all the open pieces.... so far I have counted 1000.....

In other news, I picked up some amazing coffee mugs from the Britto Store in the Miami airport. Britto is certainly one of my favorite artists and we will soon be doing his 5000 pieces Garden puzzle! If you don't know who Britto is, take a look here!

While I am counting, M is busy putting the woody together. Want to play a fun game, count how many puzzles you can see in this picture!

Not a good sign when you open a box...

How to count 4560 pieces? Use stacks of 10. This makes it so you dont have to "count" each one, just make them the same size and you can double check your work. 3560 to go (hopefully)

M working on The Battle of Carnival and Lent while I count Tower of Babel...

WTF, who ships a puzzle like this.... so disappointed.

2000 counted... 

Our new Britto coffee mugs! Mine is the heart, cause I am sensitive  her's is the cat, cause if you rub her belly more than 3 times, she will bite your arm off