Woodland Fairy Mk. 2

So I finished my 1,500 sunsout puzzle and honestly, it wasn't my favorite... The pieces were really easy to misplace, the fit is loose, and the puzzle is just soooo shiny it's hard to work with it... that said, I liked the artwork, i'd definately do more puzzles from this brand.

I was attracted to this artwork because of the fairy, one of my pet peeves, is the bastardization of the fairy (or faerie) in our culture... people think of fairies as tiny little creatures that carry wands and fly around from flower to flower, the problem with that is the image most people have, is of the Pixie, NOT the fairy... The fairy is a human sized winged human like creature that brings magic to people and places not once imbued with magic...

I like to think that the fairy seen in this image as the fairy queen titania, william shakesphere really hadthe right idea =)

anyways, pics now...

 I started with the greenery

 More Greenery

 Then the mushrooms

 Then Titania, scarf, wings, and hair/face, this was a LOT more difficult than I thought it would be...

 The golden parts of the floor leaves

 and a Random picture of Lucy sleeping on my arm =)

 I then did the dress, and started the dead leaves on the forest floor...

At this point I discovered the pattern, alternating rows of thin long then square pieces, and big thin then big fat pieces

 Finished work on the floor

 Did all of the background blue... Using the alternating pattern

 Started doing horizontal rows on the left side, using pattern

 Finished left side

 Did the bottom right, and middle right, then removed the top to work without having to stretch...

 And finally finished, I think it's a gorgeous puzzle if I do say so myself

 Another pic from a different angle

Now what's next? I'm thinking I might do this 1,000 piece Educa puzzle I bought a little while back... I'm sure it'll be a bit easier, and it'll prime me for the 33,600 piece Wildlife puzzle that I'm getting on Wednesday!! (hopefully)

Woodland Fairy

My next puzzle... It's going to be a beautiful but rather difficult looking puzzle called "Woodland Fairy" it's a sunsout puzzle, which I'm mainly doing being I have my eye on the Noah's ark, and nativity puzzles by artist Tom Dubois, but they're by sunsout, and I've only done their novelty shaped puzzles up to this point...

Here are the puzzles mentioned

 The noahs ark puzzle comes in a single 6,000 piece version, and the invitation puzzle comes in a 3,000 piece version, I'm trying to decide if I'd like the brand enough to work a full 6,000 pieces, or if I'd prefer to just grab the collections

My moms a nativity scene collector (among many MANY other things) so this would be a nice buy

anyways, I thought I'd share my new difficult process that I decided to start after the sorting issues I had with double retrospect section A (I'm referring to the fact that I had to resort a good portion of the puzzle because I didn't think about the pieces with multiple colors)

anyways, to start out, I sorted out the edge pieces, I didn't want to sort the entire thing yet, but I wanted to start...

And finally I made up a hierarchy of sorting =)

Here's how it works, the items at the very top of the list have priority to anything under them, so if I run into a piece that has both part of a small fairy, AND a green plant, i'd sort the piece into the fairy pile, if I found a piece with both part of the large fairys wing AND the blue shawl, i'd sort it into the fairy wing pile...

It really doesn't matter what order these come in, as long as there's a hierarchy... I don't want to start building the wings and parts of the wings are in the blue shawl pile, likewise I don't want half the blue shawl in the fairies body pile

and it's probibly pretty obvious, but I'd better say it anyways, once I finish sorting I'll work on the sections in list order, so first I'll do the fairies, then the unicorn, the fox, the butterflies, etc.

I hope that all makes sense, I think it'll go a LONG way to making this a more organized and quicker puzzle to complete.

Glitter Puzzle Mk. 3

Just finished the last of the three glitter puzzles... Now I can get away from these stupid ceaco puzzles, I love the artwork, but the puzzle quality was awful... the pieces bent easily, the top image layer peeled easily, and there were sections where the edges were chipped, and there ended up being white spots in unfortunate areas.

Now for the pictures...

 Pieces sorted, edge pieces complete (the missing sections have animal parts on them, so they were on my desk at this point

 The zebras

 close up of the zebras

 cheetas

 tigers, which connected the cheetas and zebras

 lions and giraffes

 rhinos, birds, and a tusk =)

 hippos

 Now all animals combined, only the elephant left remaining

 Elephant done!

 and puzzle done!

 and finally a couple shots of all three puzzles together...

Now on to my next puzzle... I'm going to be doing a sunsout puzzle titled "woodland fairy"

I already dumped the pieces, and I think i'll probably think about doing the edges tonight.

I like chickens Eddie!! GRAVY!!!!

If anyone gets the reference in my post title, You get a cookie =)

Now I mentioned in my last post that I was working on a puzzle for my moms birthday =) and I was going to actually glue (GASP!!) it... well, that's not happening... My mom decided that it was much too large to glue, and to put it away, and then I could just assemble it at a later date for her =)

So I took a TON of pictures of it, and she'll have those to put on her fridge and so on...

The puzzle in question is a 1,000 piece F. X. Schmidt affair, it's a shaped puzzle of one of my moms favorite animals, a Rooster =D

it took me approximately 3 days to assemble, I would have finished it sooner, but things happen xD

anyways, PICS!!

So I started with the edge pieces... The unfortunate thing about this brands edge pieces, are that they're not always connected to each other... They sometimes have a straight line edge connecting them and require a 3rd inside piece to actually keep them together... I honestly did not like that. I then did the red of the comb and waddle

I then worked on the blues of the sky, and tail feathers

Then the yellow of the foot and the pathways leading to the barn

The yellow of the field

All of the yellow in one picture

I then started the green on the neck

and the tail

Finally the green on the tail, almost completing the tail

I then started on the green grassy areas between the antiques... I Started this by finding all of the pieces that linked the edges, so My edges were now basically finished

Filled out some more of the green

more grass

and the last of the grassy areas (for the most part)

Next I started on the quilts, the doorway, and the 2 blue chest of drawers

I then pilled out the antiques barn

 and voila! It is finished

Close up of the antiques sale.

Overall a very enjoyable puzzle, I didn't like how the edge pieces were the way they were, but the pieces were of good quality... The only issue I have is how incredibly loose the pieces are... I mean, It will literally fall to pieces if I even attempt to THINK of lifting it...

Now onto the 3rd puzzle in the set of three 750 piece glitter puzzles, what's it look like, well I guess you'll know in a few days.