Puzzle #50 - White Mountain - Summer Breeze - 1000 pieces

Puzzle #50

Large, solid (mostly) pieces.  Several pieces had paper in the little pockets/slots - sloppily cut, I guess.  I think this happens with White Mountain.  Not a deal breaker but noticeable.  Also noticeable and I remember happening once before so will try to determine if it is a WM issue... there was a teensy tiny bug crawling in the puzzle dust.  Ugh.  Almost too small to see.  Made me think about how many more and in how many boxes and can it spread from box to box and what is it??  sigh.  The poster is nice but is actually a tad bit smaller than the image on the box.  MasterPieces and Buffalo Games still win on poster size, I think.  But the overall size of this puzzle is nice to work with.  It completely fills my jumbo size puzzle caddy.  Been looking forward to doing this puzzle for awhile.  Love this scene.

Taking photos to show progression and difficulty - what was the last to go together.

This puzzle was an absolute dream!!  I was a little gun shy on White Mountain after Beach Vacation was SO much fun until it became pure drudgery at the end... putting a damper on things.  This one never did that.  It was challenging, to be sure, but never frustrating.  It was such a lovely and relaxing image and had so many interesting aspects to it.  I had to sit and finish it not because I wanted to move on but because I was so enjoying myself.  Wonderful puzzle!  White Mountain pieces do tend to have small (almost insignificant) damage to pieces - bent places, top lifting off... but not bad at all.  Just not as strong as say, Ravensburger or even Cobble Hill I think.  Still, it is definitely a puzzle company I really enjoy.  And you just can't beat a good David MacLean image!

Finished on July 27, 2022

Puzzle #50 - White Mountain - Summer Breeze - 1000 pieces - David MacLean

Puzzle #36 - White Mountain - Beach Vacation - 1000 pieces

Puzzle #36

Delightful!

Really enjoying this one.  Colorful and fun to put together.  Challenging but not frustrating.  That is the gold standard.  :)  A few pieces sort of fit more than one place, but not enough to cause real trouble.  I like having the poster, even if it isn't large.  Better than holding the box.  Am loving White Mountain and Springbok puzzles... love the larger size overall.

So this one went from Delightful to UGH... It was absolutely wonderful, colorful, fun right up until the end.  And then the end took SO LONG and all I wanted was to be DONE!  The sky was awful but the grasses were HORRIBLE!  Ugh.  I finally had to just sort the pieces by shape and them hammer through them.  No joy - just a determination to finish this darn thing and then do a 300 piece palate cleanser afterward.  :D  Still really LOVED the first 85% of the puzzle.  But the last 15% was pretty awful.  

It took me over 2 (not enjoyable) hours to complete it from this point...

Finished on June 2, 2022

Puzzle #36 - White Mountain - Beach Vacation - 1000 pieces

Puzzle #27 - White Mountain - Sunset on the Canal - 1000 pieces

Puzzle #27

I love the size of White Mountain puzzles - huge!  Fills my puzzle caddy - almost overfills it!  But the pieces are such a nice size to work with and look at.  They fit together pretty well, too.  More of a regular cut of pieces - not irregular shapes.

This puzzle is very challenging, but overall fun to work on.  Just tough!  However I am plugging along.  Pieces are large and sturdy and mostly move well together when I have to move groupings.  I am now into the parts of the puzzle where the images will be more vague... and there is a lot of one general shade.  But not frustrated yet.  Just very, very challenged.  I do wish the poster were larger (than the box top) but at least there is a poster.  That is helpful.  (Love Buffalo and MasterPieces posters the best!)

Finished on March 26, 2022

Puzzle #27 - White Mountain - Sunset on the Canal - 1000 pieces - another David MacLean :) 

Puzzle #21 - White Mountain - Rare Book Store - 1000 pieces

I ordered several 1000 piece puzzles directly from White Mountain.  Decided to try one.  :)

I like having a poster, but sorry that this one is no bigger than the box (which is actually very good size).  I do LOVE the larger puzzle pieces, however.  The puzzle pieces for this 1000 piece puzzle are larger than pieces for a Buffalo 500 piece puzzle I was considering starting next.  Yes, it fills my puzzle caddy completely, but I love the larger pieces.

Whew!!  This was hard, too!!  The quality is very good.  Thick pieces that fit together well without confusion on fit.  However, often the piece didn't 'look' like what I thought I was looking for for a particluar area.  Jonathan even mentioned it when he put a few in.  All the way through to the very end I was having to actively try to fit the pieces in - I never got to a point where I just knew.  But a nice puzzle.  Definitely a challenge.  But fun.  Love having a hand held poster, but would have liked it to be larger.  Was just a smidge smaller than the picture on the box.

Finished on March 11, 2022

Puzzle #21 - White Mountain - Rare Book Store - 1000 pieces - Joelle McIntyre

Puzzle #13 - White Mountain - Country Fair - 1000 pieces

This was a wonderful puzzle - and my first 1000 piece.  It had large pieces and was a large overall puzzle size (filled my caddy)  I like this, personally.  

I thought of Mama the whole time... knowing she had put this very puzzle together.  I had given this one to her for Christmas several years ago and ran across it when I was at Daddy's house.  The pieces were mostly good - although White Mountain is not (at this point) my favorite puzzle company.  I wouldn't have guessed they would be below some others... I always hear such rave reviews for their puzzle.  But several pieces fit pretty well in more than one spot and the colors were a little fuzzy sometimes.  Still, overall it was a high quality puzzle and very enjoyable.  Challenging and fun. 

Finished on February 14, 2022

Puzzle #13 - White Mountain Country Fair - 1000 pieces - by Lori Schory.