Another one we picked up on a trip to Maine: License Plates by White Mountain Puzzles. Lots of colorful detail and high quality make – if (like me) you used to play the license plate game on road trips you may have an advantage. Maybe because White Mountain Puzzles made it, feels like there is … Read more
Via Amazon, Auguste Renoir Luncheon of the Boating Party puzzle. Like many licensed artworks, there may be multiple versions of this available as a puzzle – the one I did was the EuroGraphics one which was a solid quality puzzle (albeit without a photo insert, so you have to keep looking at the box cover). … Read more
Picked this puzzle up at a store in Maine on a trip to Kennebunk, but you can find it online: Notes of Blue from Piecework Puzzles. They’ve got a beautiful soft feel and are made on high quality art paper, so really look great in person.
Not sure where we picked this one up: Eurographics Puzzle: State Birds Started with the edges, then the title postcard in the top left, then the “stamps” because those were easier to sort out, then the state names and flags, then the bird illustrations, then filling in the gaps. It’s a great looking puzzle – … Read more
Started the day today with Iona Holloway at Creative Mornings Boston – fantastic and moving talk. I’ll make a note to link to the video when it’s available. Iona’s the author of Ghost: Why Perfect Women Shrink and the founder of Soul Breathwork. I won’t even try to tell her story here, but she’s a … Read more
It should not be surprising given its popularity, but there are multiple different makers of puzzles licensing this image. The one I did is here: Beatles Abbey Road 1000 Piece Puzzle made by AQUARIUS who do a lot of licensed image puzzles but at good quality. I was concerned as I’ve had some dodgy album-cover … Read more
Puzzle by the Vermont Christmas Company: Irresistible Italy. I love Italy, and this puzzle was fun as it pulls together a sunset, mountain range, architecture, and florals – all things you’d find in other highly detailed puzzles but not normally all in one place.
Jo found this one for me – a 500 piece New England Patriots puzzle of a barnyard scene. Lots of small detail in the animals faces, tails, etc – plus the structure of the barn.
Great puzzle of Norman Rockwell illustrations: Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell Collage by Masterpieces. If you’ve spent any time looking at the covers Rockwell did for the Saturday Evening Post, you know they are full of detail and narrative. (You can access the full cover archive at the Saturday Evening Post as a member) . … Read more
So I get (and appreciate) that brands are trying to be more sensitive in their messaging. But does it really help that in lieu of what might be two dozen Father’s Day promotional emails, we’re moving in the direction of this:
If I’m going to get a bunch of those for every potentially sensitive holiday (which is all of them in one way or another, isn’t it?) can I just unsubscribe altogether?