Category: cardboard
Cavallini Arboretum
Enjoyably challenging, requiring real focus on details of tree textures, variation of color, etc. Cavallini has few wrong connections, which I appreciate. Second time I’ve had Cavallini pieces still connected & then tore the paper off one of the tabs while disconnecting. )-8 And, I really wish the original captions had been in English rather […]
Andy Kehoe “Inner Mystic: Wondrous Journey”
This beautiful puzzle proved fairly challenging — not least, because there were so many false matches among the puzzle pieces. I had appreciated the curvier innie-outie pieces, but while the shapes are pleasing, there were too many that mis-matched! Grr. Anyway, the real draw was the image, which was gorgeous — all of Kehoe’s paintings […]
Rex Ray 2
I really enjoy Rex Ray’s art, but will confess I enjoyed “Mylopronesta” more than this one. That image was more satisfying — not just because it has a title, although of course that does satisfy my metadata anal retentivity — but also because I enjoyed the various patterns and blobs of color more. On the […]
Japanese Woodblocks
Another Cavallini 1000-piece. These Cavallinis are a pleasure to do, with clear blocks of different pictures, collaged together. This particular collage is really beautiful and well-balanced, as is appropriate for its subject matter. (-: It had reasonable challenges in terms of similar sets of colors that were slightly different from each other in ways that […]
Cavallini National Parks posters
Another fun Cavallini vintage themed poster – vintage posters & graphics for national parks.
Vintage Bibliotheque
Trickier than I would have expected, because there were many, many Larousse’s in the picture.
Eames Design Spectrum
A nice follow-up to the Eames Design Classics puzzle. Again, I enjoyed the varying patterns and colors. The Ravensburger puzzle pieces are regular and non-challenging, so this was a relaxation kind of puzzle. The chair on the inside — pointilist style — was the last section for me.
Eames Design Classics
Pretty easy 1000-piece puzzle, with lots of discrete elements, differentiable wood patterns and colors and types of line drawings. Lots of fun, though.
Cocktail Time
This puzzle was super-fun — even when one of my cats stood on my precariously balanced puzzle board and knocked it over. The puzzle wasn’t hard — biggish pieces, bright colors & chunks of background, lots of words … but really enjoyable. I enjoy some vintage nostalgia (but note that people of color existed back […]
Terrarium Cat
Cobble Hill 1000-piece. I wanted to finish the cat first, as is befitting, but sure enough, I ended up doing all the more distinctive pieces first and getting the dark body of the Siamese last ….
Tartans of Scotland
“Oh, Scottish tartans! That’s great — I can learn famous tartans while I puzzle.” Educational puzzling! In retrospect, I am left with the question — Why did I even want to learn famous tartans? (I mean, I know: An over-abundance of fiction glorifying the Highlands and what-not ….) This 1000-piece puzzle was truly difficult. One […]
Peggy Collins “Worship of Trees”
For a 500-piece puzzle, this was surprisingly difficult — the stained gloss blockings have many similar colors, and all the black outlines combined with similar colors made color-matching challenging! Satisfyingly challenging.
Rex Ray “Mylopronesta”
Rex Ray, “Mylopronesta” – 1000 pieces, Pomegranate Finished March 9, 2023. Gorgeous, and a real pleasure to look at closely while assembling it. Fairly easy, with the distinct colors — similar colors and shapes had to be sorted out, but there were so many unique colors and shape combinations that it wasn’t hard. The chains […]
Cavallini Vintage Bicycles
My friend Nancy graciously allowed me to join her in the completion of the fun Vintage Bicycles puzzle!2023/03/05
Encanto
Ash finished a beautiful (1000-piece) Encanto puzzle, xmas gift from grandparents. Video of the final insertions!
Sandra Boynton Cows
Xmas gift for Ash 2022, for the cow-theme! (There are not as many cow-themed puzzles as one might imagine.) 1000-piece puzzle from Workman Puzzles. Ash did it fairly quickly …
