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A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 19
Is it a bad thing that as I’m waiting for images on here to load, I’m working on the puzzle next to me? It’s so distracting because I just started it and, well, that’s not a good reason. At any point in the puzzling process, I would be distracted from what I was doing to puzzle. It’s what I think about at work and when I’m taking care of chores around the house. I just want to get back to my puzzles. This one was no exception. I’ve really been loving the New York Puzzle Company. I don’t think that before I got this collection, I’d done many of their puzzles. I have a few more in my collection now because I like the quality and piece shape. They’re not quite as random as a Springbok or Cobble Hill, but not as simple as Ravensburger or Big Ben. This isn’t quite one of my favorite images, but I do like that playing with adults stepping on children’s toys while they’re out shopping, probably, for more toys.
Trying Toys by Robert Day -
Michael Storring’s 12 Days of Christmas, day 7
This one looks more like London, not counting the UK flag in the middle there, which I didn’t see until I started typing. When I was putting this puzzle together, I kept wanting to put the Christmas tree in the center. I thought that that was where it would go, but it’s just off-center. Seeing the whole image, it makes sense that it’s off to the side. There’s the room for different landmarks that tell us this is London. I am wondering though if that’s a ferris wheel in the background. I think they have one in London, but I don’t remember.
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Star Trek: Films
This was one of two Star Trek puzzles I bought a while ago and it’s been sitting in my closet until I was ready. I was surprised to see Cobble Hill doing a Star Trek puzzle let alone two. It didn’t quite seem to be in their style, but I was happy to see them because I love Star Trek and Cobble Hill has slowly become a favorite brand of mine. I like that they’re random cut as this makes the puzzle just a little bit more fun to do. They did a few other Star Trek ones, but the only ones that really stood out to me were this one and the “Classic Episodes” one.
Let’s get started!
I didn’t quite remember the movie posters themselves but I’ve seen the movies and remember the plots, so piecing together the posters wasn’t terribly difficult other than trying to find the right pieces. The Voyage Home, Wrath of Khan, and the Motion Picture were the ones I was mostly focused on putting together first. It wasn’t really intentional. I usually start with lettering and these were the ones that stood out to me. I was totally fine with the Voyage Home and Wrath of Khan being among the first pieced together as these are two of my favorite Star Trek movies.
I should have uncovered the puzzle a little more before taking a progress photo, but you can see the general placement. It’s interesting that the Wrath of Khan is so much larger than the others. As a kid, I didn’t really enjoy this movie so much because it was so dark and serious compared to the Voyage Home. But, as an adult, I can appreciate the writing and character development. Khan is a fascinating character and the only villain to really match Kirk for intellect and creativity. There’s nothing cartoon-y about him and he deals a very real blow to the Enterprise crew. That’s why I hated this movie as a kid, because Spock dies. When I do watch it, I have to have time to finish out the trilogy, so I can see the crew back to normal.
Even though I can now appreciate the Wrath of Khan, I think I will always love the Voyage Home for its pure strangeness. It’s set in a time and place that I don’t have any familiarity with, but that it’s the Enterprise crew on a modern-day Earth is pure fan fiction fun. Everything they do is equal parts in character and frustrating because you know they shouldn’t do that. It also shines a spotlight on some of the oddities of our world and makes you think does it really have to be that way?
Surprisingly, I did wind up missing a couple of pieces. I have dogs, but they’re not ones to eat pieces, and I’ve gotten into the habit of picking up pieces as soon as I hear them drop. They could be in the room somewhere, but I’m beginning to doubt it. Is it disappointing to be missing a couple pieces from a brand-new puzzle? Sure. It’s not something that usually happens with Cobble Hill, though. And it’s certainly not the worst I’ve had happen. I had five of the same piece with another brand and was missing five or six pieces. Missing pieces aside, I had a lot of fun working on this puzzle, and it’s made me want to rewatch the Star Trek movies.
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Michael Storring’s 12 Days of Christmas, day 6
This was a fairly simple puzzle to put together. I’d thought that the collection was going to trend more towards Christmas in notable places, but it seems to be more of the typical Christmas scenes. This one is cute. There are a few buildings around, but the focus is the church. I like that you can see the kids dressed as angels walking in. I don’t see anyone else dressed, so perhaps they’re already in, or it’s just angels. It’s quite the busy scene. Down on the bottom are some carolers and there’s a couple of people in cars to get trees. It is quite a bit like the others, which I suppose is a bit disappointing. I haven’t looked much at the other images for the rest of the collection, so I’ll be interested to see if this trend continues on the other half of the puzzles.
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A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 18
This one might be my favorite of the whole set. When I finished it, I immediately went online to see if there was a larger version of it. I really like the classic Christmas quality of it. It’s not about a party or the hustle and bustle of the season. It’s just a family decorating their house for Christmas. To me, that’s something fairly relatable. You can tell that it’s just been done because the ladder is still out. I recognize the artist’s name, Edna Eicke, from some of the other images in this set. So, I might have to go look some at her works. Perhaps there are some other images of hers that I like and can find as puzzles.
Holiday Trimmings by Edna Eicke -
A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 17
By now, I’m very much getting in the grove of doing a little puzzle every morning. And unlike the rest of the daily tasks, this is the one that’s not a chore to do at all. Even with all of the craziness of the last couple of weeks leading up to Christmas, I like having a small puzzle to sit down and put together with before I have to head off to work. I liked the variety of Santas here and how they were not the classic Santa. They’re all very human looking. I have to wonder where they’re going? Is there some kind of party or business? Perhaps they’ve all been hired by an agency to be Santas at different places and this is them going out to their jobs from the agency.
Santas on the Subway by George Price -
Michael Storring’s 12 Days of Christmas, day 5
This one almost looks like a collage of images with the bridge and the buildings on the top and bottom. There’s then the hill in the middle and the ground of people watching and/or waiting for their turn, though not many of them look to have sleds. Perhaps everyone’s sharing. Sledding around where I live isn’t really a Christmas activity. We don’t get enough snow before the new year to make it possible. In fact, we just got done with about a day of rain and then had a light dusting of snow. The snow didn’t even stick. Come January and February, we’ll have snow and annoying freezing cold. Then the kids will get out on the one big hill in town and have some sledding fun. I think I went down it once or twice as a kid, but it gets so crowded and it’s fairly steep. I remember hitting a bump on the way down and going flying and veering off to the side. I wound up on my side and decided I was done with sledding.
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A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 16
This one was a bit of a challenge. I don’t think that it should have been. I’m working on another puzzle on my usual table, so I was keeping the puzzle to the surface of a notebook and trying not to let the pieces fall off and mix with the pieces of the other puzzle. Usually, I don’t have two puzzles going, but these advent puzzles don’t take a lot of time, so it’s nice to have a larger one going. I’m curious how others feel about having two puzzles going. Or perhaps you have more than two? How do you find the space? What’s your reason for having a second one going?
Little Angels by William Steig -
Michael Storring’s 12 Days of Christmas, day 4
The scenes in this advent calendar are so nicely varied from classic Christmas scenes to more standard outdoor winter scenes. How realistic this is, I don’t know as I’ve never been skiing but in terms of thinking about the classic ski lodge and surroundings, it seems on par. It doesn’t seem like anyone is skiing though. They all are running towards the lodge. That’s going to be a really full lodge.
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A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 15
I’m not quite sure why, but when I was first looking at this advent calendar, it was this image that stood out to me. I even went searching for it as a larger puzzle because I liked the image. There’s something cozy and comforting, well in most cases at least, about seeing the inside of a building lit up at night and being able to see the activity. I suppose it’s a bit like a TV, except not scripted. You don’t even really want to hear. It’s just about watching. Though I will admit that sometimes it is nice to see how someone has decorated.
City Advent Windows by Ilonka Karasz
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