More holiday entertainment…
The puzzle we mentioned in the Christmas day entry kept us entertained so well for a bit that we thought we’d break out another one. This one had been sitting in its plastic wrap on the shelf in the spare room for some time, sulking. And about 3 minutes after opening it we realised why!
If the blue pieces on the previous ones were the ones to start with on the old puzzle, they were the ones to avoid on this one! Even the edge took us about 3 hours!! And the whole puzzle took 4 1/2 days to complete. In the end the only way we could seem to make any progress was to try every piece in every place until something looked like it might almost fit.
When you look at this pic you will be saying “it doesn’t look that hard”….. well believe us it was and it almost got the better of us on a number of occasions and was very close to going back in the box without being completed. But we managed to persevere. (In our defence it was a Van Gogh and if you have seen any of his paintings you will know what his brush work is like, which made for some hard puzzling).
There was a huge sense of relief when it was finished!
In case you wanted to see the previous one completed, here it is too:
A lot easier!
But we might give puzzling a miss for a bit now…