Antique Market

I go through cycles on the images I like in puzzles. Right now I’m really into these colorful, busy scenes. It reminded me some of the Aimee Stewart puzzles. I think that’s probably part of why I picked it up. I liked the variety of items in this puzzle and the color.

Let’s start flipping over pieces!

I’ve been told that my method of puzzling is a little chaotic. I don’t start at the edges or anything specific. Once I’m flipping over pieces, I hold back the ones that seem to fit to make something larger. That’s where I usually start. On this, I was working on the green-ish tin roof with gas written on it. I opted this time to work more on the sky first and then work down. I love doing skies, so I usually save them for the end.

I don’t look at the box once I dump out the pieces, so I’m really just putting things together based on memory and what it seems like should go together. This means that puzzling is usually a bit of an adventure and I have to do some moving around of pieces once I start to see how things connect together.

I enjoyed this one. I’d forgotten about the tractors on the lower right, so I was trying to figure out where these wheels went but I got them in the right place eventually. The image as a whole reminds me some of the town my grandparents lived in for a long time. I’d go to visit them every summer for about a month. They’re some of my best memories as a kid because there was so much to explore and do there that there wasn’t back home. There was a candy shop that I was allowed to walk to that was just full of all sorts of candy and junk food. It was a kid’s dream. We’d go to yard sales and drive out into the country to get water from a well. It always seemed a more laid-back, rural type area than what I was used to.