Flower fairies
This 1000-piece puzzle, comprising four of Cicely Mary Barker’s 1920s pictures of fairies in different seasons, may look pretty, what with all those flowers and delicate little fairy wings. But it was a nightmare trying to put it all together; every piece was almost identical in shape, and each one was oriented the same way, i.e., with its ‘prongs’ aligned on a north-south axis.
Also, there were too many fiddly little bits of petal, leaf and twig.
Maybe I’m being too harsh, though. There are no excuses really. I bottled out after completing the easiest parts, and that’s all there is to it. Luckily, Shana stepped in and finished the rest of the puzzle in about five minutes.
Shana also spotted where the artist had apparently changed the painting and moved one of the fairies over to the right. On one of the leaves at the bottom of the ‘Autumn’ section, you can see the outline of a foot. On closer inspection you can clearly tell that the foot once belonged to the fairy on the right hand side. But wait! Did Cicely Mary Barker really move the figure? Or did the fairy dance across of her own accord? Alas, we shall never know.
