Peanuts Christmas Puzzle

Overall Experience:  Perfect

Cut Quality: Perfect

Board Quality: Firm

Shape Cut: Grid-like

Image Quality: Superb

Hardest Area: sky/snow

Puzzle Dust? none

Finish Quality: Smooth, no glare

Box Quality: Good and solid

Sealed Pieces Inside Box: yes

Was this purchased new? yes

Price: N/A

Recommend Level: High

Time: 11.5 hours

I did my usual sorting routine.

1. Sorting to locate all  the outside border pieces, while....
2. Placing the pieces into the 'general-color' piles. 
3. Then I carried on with a second round of sorting (similar colors sorted by shades/patterns) while placing the pieces flat out on the poster boards. 

For some reason I do not have a photo of the pieces in piles however I do know I was pretty excited to get going on this one.

To assist assembling this puzzle border I laid out all the flat edge pieces according to the shapes.

There is a lot of dark/white color along the border so it was a matter of matching the shapes into position by testing one by one - I find it assembles much faster that way.

Below is the finished border and you can easily see the solid dark and solid light-white edges. 

I tried to do the Christmas Tree first. Then I worked the colored hair on the characters. Once I completed their hair and bodies and Snoopy, I assembled all the faces. So when the tree, characters and Snoopy were done it left only the stars in the sky and the snow on the bottom of the image. I knew they would be testy due to the grid-cut. Once again I laid out all the pieces according to shape and the size of the tips on the pieces. It took me longer to do the sky and snow than the rest of the puzzle.

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