Month: September 2025
Shakespearean Insults
Man, this was super challenging. “Shakespearean Insults“, from the Unemployed Philosophers Guild — a 1000 piece puzzle. Pale blue and dark blue and black text, serif and sans serif, italics, camel case and all caps, and varying sizes … it was all totally doable but you had to stare at it a long time! Luckily […]
Carnival Train by Carl Strathmann (Art & Fable 500)
Gosh, I really love the Art & Fable puzzles — and I loved this 1913 image, “Carnival Train” (also frequently listed as “Carnival Parade”), by Carl Strathmann (1866-1939). (canvas, 105 cm x 171.5 cm, Municipal Gallery in Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich, https://sammlungonline.lenbachhaus.de/objekt/karnevalszug-maskentre-iben-300007267.html (this link from the puzzle description does not work, but more info here: […]
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Vintage Paris, from Willow Creek
A collage of vintage Paris iconography (dominated by la Tour Eiffel), assembled by Tina Higgins (possibly this Tina Higgins, at MHS Licensing, who is a graphic designer who works with vintage imagery), and published by Willow Creek. Also from my backlog! This was possibly my first Willow Creek puzzle — griddish but with more piece […]
Sierra Range by Charley Harper (Pomegranate 1000)
I love Charley Harper art — nature scenes, plus geometric shapes, bright colors — and love the Pomegranate puzzles of Charley Harper. This one was on my to-do pile, and I’m pushing through a lot of puzzles right now …. I really love running my hand over completed Pomegranate puzzles. Somehow it’s more satisfying than […]
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Merry Wives of Windsor by Peter Church (Ravensburger 1000)
Oh the pain — a missing piece, right from the border! I’m sure this piece is somewhere in my couch or nearby — but on the other hand, the cats the other night were running around like kittens playing hockey with the cork coasters and pipe cleaners, so a single puzzle piece could have gotten […]
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Ravensburger Vintage Games
Another puzzle from my stash! “Vintage Games”, image copyright 2014 Kate Ward Thacker / Next Day Art, published by Ravensburger as a 1000-piece puzzle (No. 19 406 3). This one was such a busy collage-style image that, although I was attracted to the art, I postponed it for a long time … but once I […]
Autumn Wheel (Elena Essex 1000)
Possibly my first Elena Essex puzzle? Very pretty, and very fast — it’s an autumnal-themed color wheel, and was a nice fast assembly.
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Cateye by Pixie Cold (Ravensburger 200)
Pretty little 200-piece Ravensburger (“Cateye“) that Ash and I knocked off Saturday afternoon. Most of the pictures on the box made it look more square, so I posted the one picture that had more accurate dimensions — it’s a landscape orientation rectangle! The artist is only credited with an instagram username, “Pixie Cold“, which makes […]
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Mid Summer Night Dream by Enzhao Liu
I’d had this 1000-piece puzzle (“Mid Summer Night Dream” by Enzhao Liu) from Antelope for a while, and was leery of doing it because it seemed dark and hard, but actually it came together very quickly and beautifully. There was lots of variation in the various birds and tree forms, and even the night sky […]
Lovely Cat Ravensburger wooden
Ash and I knocked off another small Ravensburger wooden (laser-cut) puzzle, cat themed! The whimsies are actually quite nice.
