Mid-Century Modern Dream Home by Diane Dempsey (Cobble Hill 1000)

Another fun Diane Dempsey mid-century modern style illustration, from Cobble Hill. A fast pleasurable solve.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater (Galison 500)

So glad I dropped the Cross & Glory AI puzzle and set up this Galison double-sided 500-piece puzzle, of Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Fallingwater” (I really don’t know why it’s styled “Fallingwater” not “Falling Water” ….), instead. Puzzle link. Galison’s pieces are crispy but more solid than the one I was doing, and the puzzle cut […]
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Madmar “The Cathedral”

An old puzzle, “Madmar Picture Puzzle Blue Ribbon Series”, 118 pieces, marked with 1.75 — presumably the price? Madmar Quality Co., Utica New York. I got it from ebay, which is new for me. (More about Madmar at Bob’s Old Puzzles.) Beautifully papered on the back — I was really charmed by this. Sort of […]
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Big Ben by Eduardo Calzado, BCB

11.5″ x 14.5″, 400 pieces, handcut by Brookie Biglands (BCB Puzzles), via Hoefnagel. Yes, the swirly sky took a long time. Lovely feel to this puzzle.
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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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Painted Ladies

Victorian, lots of greys …. This one was tough … Ash picked it up for us at the Amherst Transfer Station.
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