Category: Project: Mini Jigsaws
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Flow Disrupted
The flow was disrupted. First, two neighbouring edge pieces were – are still – missing. Then, part way through, I covered the puzzle one afternoon and took a long time to uncover it. Yet, this puzzle represents a return to flow after some years away from Canberra. It is one of three puzzles purchased during…
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Elemental
I couldn’t make a mini jigsaw this time, but I love the reason why. I’d bought three wildly-different jigsaws, because you had to buy three to get the discount and why buy three that are similar. I did that once and learnt my lesson the boring way. The first to be tackled in this set…
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Periphery
I had two choices. I could try again … again … to conquer Monet’s lily pond or take the easier, and rather more colourfully garish, path. I opted for the latter. It was a very functional puzzle, with nothing particularly exacting or overly interesting. However, when it was time to fill in the sections of…
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Entice
Sometimes, when you open a new jigsaw, you are greeted with a sense of song. It’s something about the colours, both the solid colour chosen for the back and the variety that is splashed across the front of each piece, all jumbled together in the box. This hadn’t occurred to me until I opened a…
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Mindfully Yellow
I noted the irony. While chauffeuring family members to and from their skin cancer checkup, I bought a jigsaw of a dramatic sunset. There was a large table of jigsaws, most sporting a “Buy Three For” sticker, and two of them were the same brand as my recently completed mini jigsaw, “Mindfully Blue”, which I…
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Mindfully Blue
It was a superlative jigsaw. First, the larger-sized pieces allowed for a degree of immersion not possible with smaller pieces. Being only 500, with larger-sized pieces, it could be completed in a day. Second, it was a useful distraction from the carnage in the kitchen where mouse after mouse scurried out from between the cupboard…
Cherrie Zell 