This is an older puzzle- from 2007. Style of the logo on the box is different. Puzzles by the same company are very popular I see them all over the place nowadays, but just know- they won’t last. I don’t know how many hands this one went through before mine, but it had plenty of layers peeling up off the pieces (I only glued a few of them back down, then gave up) and quite a few bent knobs. Someone before me had taped the picture layer back on one piece- little bits hung over the edge but it still fit in place just fine. Remarkably, no missing pieces!
What’s funny is, the whole time I was working this I thought it was a photograph. I thought it was a photo with a faded, soft look from being printed over a decade ago. It was only when I was making this post and looked up more info from the box that I found out it’s colored pencil artwork, in stunning realism. Now I’m super impressed instead of being bored and slightly frustrated at putting together a photo picture. And once again, I proved to myself that I can just zone out and enjoy the process of fitting together abstract shapes and colors, even if I don’t particularly admire the picture (at first).
This one is from a series called Floral Fantasy- but in the cataloging system I use, it had been mislabeled with that as the title. I made a comment to my husband: why isn’t it roses for a honeymoon, that’s more romantic and he said oh, but in the south of France, it’s all about sunflowers. Sunflowers and old lace. I thought I would start with the bright yellows, but that was too hard. So picked a smaller color group and went with the subtle greens first. Ended up doing the yellow flowers last! Assembly: