January 8, 2005:

GBMINI is in pieces!

For Christmas, Margaret bought me a custom jigsaw puzzle, of GBMINI & other MINIs during the Coopers For Caregivers run last year:

Trying to piece it together is challenging because of the scale - GBMINI is close to the camera and a single piece does not represent much of the car - the license plate is six pieces!

But further back, the MINIs are smaller and one piece is almost a whole car …

I am not good at jigsaws, and did only a few pieces, but Margaret is very good and has successfully rebuilt all the MINIs:

A great gift, although I noticed that the colors have been slightly offset during printing, so there is a red “ghosting” around the more distance parts of the picture.

Posted by GBMINI at 10:27 pm | GBMINI#2
Comments: 9 (post new comment)

  1. Chris W (2005/01/09 @ 7:34 am)

    Ian, that’s a pretty cool picture. The pavement / shadow also looks like it was pretty difficult as well.

  2. Shea (2005/01/09 @ 3:51 pm)

    That is an awesome photograph and puzzle - Chris is right… the pavement looks like it would have been one of the hardest parts! Margaret - that was a great idea!

  3. Ian C. (2005/01/09 @ 7:07 pm)

    Margaret claims the road & shadow was easy - she certainly finished that section very early on - but she is an expert jigsaw solver (unlike me!)

  4. Joe (2005/01/10 @ 6:35 am)

    Ian the best part of that puzzle is my back towards you.I didn’t realize my hair was so white.

  5. Ian Cull (2005/01/10 @ 9:35 am)

    Joe,
    You were also a useful part of the assembly process - your very identifiable hair helped us link the position of the house & cars early on!

  6. Ryan (2005/01/10 @ 12:08 pm)

    Love the jigsaw gift. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who gets ALL gifts of the Mini variety during the holidays. I’m working on a Simpsons mosaic jigsaw right now and it’s TOUGH. How many pieces was this jigsaw?

  7. Joe (2005/01/10 @ 3:05 pm)

    Well Ian glad I could be a help.

  8. GSKChicago (2005/01/10 @ 6:56 pm)

    Anyone happen to know if Mini cufflinks exist?
    Thanks! :o)
    G.

  9. Ian C. (2005/01/10 @ 8:01 pm)

    According to the Personal Creations web page, the jigsaw is 550 pieces … more than enough for me, but easy for Margaret ;) Cufflinks … Google says see these classic Mini ones!
    There are official MINI ones too but only the word, not the car!

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