We just finished a puzzle! It is a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle titled, "Beautiful Santorini." I got the puzzle in the summer when I heard about a tour going to Greece and kept getting beautiful status updates. We started the puzzle way back after the hurricane in September. The sky was finished almost immediately after we started---the subtle variations in clouds and colors made it surprisingly easy. Then we started on the city. It turns out that little bits of windows, doors, televisions, umbrellas, are actually harder to do than swaths of color. It took about 2 months to make any significant progress on the rocks and grass around the town, and on the buildings of the town. That's a long time to be without your coffee table...
The best part of putting the puzzle together was finding little scenes that are unnoticeable when looking at the entire puzzle from a distance. For example, there is a piece with a guy climbing over a wall, or pieces of the two mini-marts, or the Greek Flag, and the televisions on the porches of the hotel.
Unfortunately we now we have a 999 piece jigsaw puzzle, since one of the pieces has gone missing. And after counting the pieces on the edge, Eleanor says that we have a 27x37=999 piece jigsaw puzzle, so we now just have 998 pieces. Whatever. I'm confident it will come in handy when we do eventually make it to Santorini.
The best part of putting the puzzle together was finding little scenes that are unnoticeable when looking at the entire puzzle from a distance. For example, there is a piece with a guy climbing over a wall, or pieces of the two mini-marts, or the Greek Flag, and the televisions on the porches of the hotel.
Unfortunately we now we have a 999 piece jigsaw puzzle, since one of the pieces has gone missing. And after counting the pieces on the edge, Eleanor says that we have a 27x37=999 piece jigsaw puzzle, so we now just have 998 pieces. Whatever. I'm confident it will come in handy when we do eventually make it to Santorini.
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