Eastern Bloc Telephones

I found this one while searching for other puzzles and fell in love with the colors. I also really liked the look of the different phones. I’m not old enough to have used a rotary phone, but I do kind of miss the days of an actual phone. The cord was always something to play with and fidget with while talking, not that I spent much time on the phone as a kid. I’ve never liked the phone, and hearing it ring would usually give me a spike of dread if I was the only one around. But I do like the look and the contrast of colors on these phones.

Let’s get started!

This puzzle was quite easy to put together and didn’t take all that long, so I forgot to take in progress photos other than this one. Because it lacked the borders that the Goofy puzzle did, I was able to jump from one section to another using the hints of the background or phone color that showed up on the pieces. This is a really fun way to put a puzzle together because you see it grow from just a few to the full size. I’m always interested in seeing where the edges are and which side gets completed first.

These smaller piece puzzles don’t take much time, which is sometimes disappointing because I’m done with a really cool puzzle quite fast. But I do like to keep 500 and 750-piece puzzles around because they’re great for when I’m not quite sure which puzzle I want to do. Sometimes I’m just in between a few puzzles and can’t make up my mind, or I’m just not able to find the one that I really want to work on next. So, I grab a 500-piece puzzle because then I’m doing something I enjoy, and I’ve got a couple of hours to decide what puzzle to do next.