Hello! I have been eagerly waiting for this parcle to come and guess what, it came on Monday!
So here we have the two puzzles. The puzzle boxes are in ok conditions. Unfrortunatly, someone DREW on the Evergreen Wedding box. There was writing on the original sylvanian families label saying that two pieces were missing and the two places where they were missing had an X marked on in. And yes, it did come missing two pieces though the seller only said one.
Nevertheless, here is the camping puzzle, I was a bit suprised to see that they were not regular puzzle pieces (which I prefer) but oddly shaped curved pieces. Can you see the backside of one looking like an h?
Anyway, I completed the puzzle and I still like it, even though it has those curved pieces.
So this is the other puzzle, odd shaped pieces as well and the box and pieces were in worse condition than the other puzzle.
So here it is finished and you can clearly see the missing pieces so I decided with a little help from my Dad, to make the missing two pieces by scanning in the cover of the box and using photoshop to edit out the X’s. Can you see that they have used Father Chester Thistlethorn (grey mouse) twice?!
Ah yes, there we have just started on one of the X’s and we are also getting rid of that white crease in the picture.
So now I have made the replacement piece and am cutting out the picture to go on the top, I must say that the colours were not the exact same but I expected that.
Here we have the picture that shows how the puzzle is now, with its two replacement pieces.
I also noticed that the pieces were a bit wavy on both puzzles, I will have to press them flat.
Hello!
What do you think? I personally love these puzzles even though they are not perfect but… Also, toyworld were having a 40% off sale and since we saw it on the evening of the last day, I had a look on the online shop and guess what? Probably 9/10 items were not avalibe online or were out of stock =(, so therefore, I was not able to buy the family that I wanted to buy , double =( =(
Emily
Hi Emily! Congrats on those puzzles! I really like them! You and your Dad did a great job making the missing pieces.If you don´t say anything about it I wouldn´t have noticed that the pieces didn´t belong to the original puzzle.
Sorry to hear you missed the chance to get the family you wanted..Wow! 40% off was a good sale..
Hopefully you can get it soon. Do you mind me asking what is the family you wanted to buy, just out of curiosity.
Mmm, the replacement pieces do blend in more when it is daylight. I wanted to get the goat family or maybe the new barker family since I love the mothers dress. I would have chosen the goat family I think :). Oh well, I guess I will buy them when they have another special price off.
Emily
I have both families and they´re really cute. I don´t know which one I like more.I agree with you about the Barker mother´s dress.It´s lovely. It matches the daughter´s dress too.
Hope you find a special sale soon.
I hope so too, well halloween is coming up in October and I think that they will have spcials then but probably they will also have ones before. They will definetly have specials around christmas…
Emily
Like Cutata said, I wouldn’t have recognized the replacements! The puzzles are so adorable, congratulations! I remember that I had such shaped puzzles pieces in one puzzle when I was a child. I always thought and still think they’re a bit odd 😀
They do look a bit ood but I overall still like them. Thank you for your kind words about my puzzle replacement pieces, I hope that if I buy more puzzles in the future they will have alll the pieces though since then the puzzle is complete and it took quite some time to make those replacement pieces.
Emily