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
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.
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
Via Amazon, A Prickly Pair and Poncho puzzle Well-made puzzle from Buffalo Games, in the Cats of Charles Wysocki series.
Intersection of interests – puzzles and record covers. Good quality version (above), not so great quality version (below) Actually both were good fun as puzzles – it’s just that the second one seems like it was put together by ChatGPT in response to a badly formed query – check out: Ultimately still fun to put … Read more
