The first took some time, three house moves and a piece was lost over time.... but it got done.
The hardest part was the scroll-work around the top of the image. It took me a long while and a lot of patience!
The second puzzle took me very little time in comparison. Rhys bought this particular puzzle back from his 2014 trip to Japan. I started, doing the clever thing of sorting all pieces first into about 4 different categories (edge pieces, pieces showing the borders, writing, pieces with no border showing.) This made it very easy going - as I just put all the writing together first, then added any pieces without borders and pieces showing borders to those. Then I alternated between working on compiling the borders around the smaller images, filling in the smaller images and piecing it all together. Last was the edge pieces, which was, surprisingly, the hardest of all.
You can see that though they're both 1000+ pieces, the first puzzle took up almost double the space of the second due to it's larger pieces.
I enjoy puzzles. They appeal to a part of my brain that likes piecing things together, finding links and dealing with it all in a planned way.
