A Puzzling Vase

  Hello, this is a post-lockdown blog. The first right after quarantine ended. This is just an activity that I did.
    - Me

  So, after I got home yesterday, my mom got a gift from someone. It was a box with the picture of a plastic vase with a picture of a bird on both sides. This is what it looked like:
  fig. 1. picture of container

My mom opened the box and to our surprise, the vase was a piece-by-piece item. There were puzzle pieces that needed to be attached to certain parts of the vase and several other pieces to create the rest of the puzzle.

We started by attaching the top pieces onto what looked like the rim of the vase. It proved to be harder than anticipated, because we couldn't get the fit the pieces correctly.
   fig. 2. me putting the top parts together

We ended up moving onto the middle part of the puzzle; we would find out how the top and bottom pieces were connected. I shuffled through the pieces to try and find the correct pieces before we went to sleep. I was so enticed by the puzzle, I wanted to finish it before we slept.

We did two parts of the puzzle. My mom did the blue bird's side, while I did the sparrow's side of the vase.
 fig. 3. me doing the body of the puzzle

Once again, I shuffled through every single piece to find the ones that fit the image. Sure, the pieces would fit, but they also aren't the same part of the image.

As I drove myself to finish the body of the puzzle, my mom began working on the bottom parts of the puzzle. It was a lot easier to do than the body and the top. My mom took more pictures of me doing the puzzle. It took some time and effort, but eventually, we managed to finish the puzzle.
    fig. 4. me almost finishing the puzzle

We finished the puzzle right before it hit 9:00 pm. I assembled the rest of the vase, and there was the finished product. She took a picture of it with the box it was in.
  fig. 5.1. The blue bird's side of the vase
fig. 5.2. The sparrow's side of the vase

When we looked around the vase, we noticed that one of the pieces were out of place. We agreed to fix it tomorrow because it was getting late. Of course, when I got home the next day, I fixed the puzzle.

She sent me some photos (the ones above) so I could use them for this blog.

    Thank you for reading this! Please provide some feedback for any future blogs. Once again, thank you, goodbye, and have a good day!
         - Me