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 […]
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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 […]
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Cavallini National Parks posters

Another fun Cavallini vintage themed poster – vintage posters & graphics for national parks.
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Vintage Bibliotheque

Trickier than I would have expected, because there were many, many Larousse’s in the picture. Cavallini, 1000, “Vintage Puzzle: “Library””
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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 […]
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