{"id":17462,"date":"2023-08-22T15:19:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T19:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogeardiary.com\/?p=17462"},"modified":"2023-08-22T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T19:21:12","slug":"birthday-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogeardiary.com\/2023\/08\/birthday-pageant\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Pageant"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"\"A Dinotopia puzzle. I’m not an actual Dinotopia fan, but there was a large beautiful book from the series in my stepson’s room. I much admired the pictures- the artist is really good at doing children’s faces, the soft features and expressions so natural.<\/p>\n

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I did try to read the book once, the idea is fun but it was one I just couldn’t get into. Something about the writing style put me off or was just boring. This puzzle was nice to do, though! I mean, in terms of having an interesting picture and being just enough of a challenge (I didn’t look at the box much). Odd, through most of the assembly I thought this was a very simple cut, all two knobs\/two holes pieces. It wasn’t until the very<\/em> end that I suddenly noticed I had a piece with wings in the middle of the others.<\/p>\n

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I looked closer through the mostly-finished puzzle and yes, there were a few more pieces of other standard shapes in there. But the vast majority are just two knobs\/two holes. Rather flimsy and thin, too. I liked it well enough, though. Missing three pieces, which is particularly disappointing only because one is across child’s face.<\/p>\n

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