Puzzles
Another “impulse” purchase before the holidays in the line at Marshall’s – a “vintage” butterflies puzzle. Very intricate individual butterflies, all numbered and labelled at the bottom – very complicated puzzle to do but enjoyable.
Via Amazon: Edward Hopper, Portrait of Orleans I’m a huge fan of Hopper, and especially works he did in Massachusetts on Cape Cod and Cape Ann. (The Cape Ann Museum does a wonderful walking tour of houses Hopper painted in Gloucester). This one, Portrait of Orleans, is in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco … Read more
I think we picked this one up at a Marshalls or Home Goods, but you can find it online too: Rae Dunn “Dogs” Puzzle. It was just ever-so-slightly too tall for our puzzle board so I had to let the top row of pieces bend over the board. Harder than it looked – lots of … Read more
I don’t actually have the box of this one anymore (we gift forward or donate our old puzzles once we’ve done them) but I believe our version was this one on Amazon: 1000 Piece Puzzle, Colorful Doors. This is the kind of puzzle I really like – though the colors are a bit loud/bright for … Read more
Not Salem MA, but apparently Salem Ontario This was pretty difficult as a puzzle – lots of texture but difficult to identify the various bits.
Via Rock Saws: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars puzzle. These album cover puzzles are a bit hit-and-miss. Because the original cover art was not designed to be a puzzle, there are often large volumes of just single color or very light texture. That isn’t necessarily a problem in and of itself, but the … Read more
Ok, this one was truly torturous. Had to keep a magnifying glass next to the puzzle table for this one – lots of detail in each photo, but also lots of repetition of similar motifs in different places. Did the edges, then the white circle and NASA logo, then the orange, the the central blue … Read more
Another Buffalo Games puzzle: Cinque Terre Italy, from their Signature Collection Challenging one but fun – lots of detail, so it takes time to do but isn’t just large masses of color you have to guess about. We visited Cinque Terre a decade plus ago, but didn’t have time to hike up to this vista.
There are actually multiple different versions of this as a puzzle – at this point Starry Starry Night is in the public domain so I think anyone can just make it. Ours was from Buffalo Games via Amazon – the 750 piece version (I think they also have a 2000 piece one). Challenging puzzle indeed, … Read more
