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I love to thrift, finding treasures that people have thrown away. The challenge and the quiet time focusing on assembling jigsaw puzzle pieces into a final image has interested and excited me for as long as I can remember. A few years ago I noticed that thrift stores always have a fully stocked "puzzles and games" section. Finally an endless supply of new puzzles to solve and a reason to keep thrifting!

Dinosaur – Stegosaurus

This past weekend, I went thrifting on my own, (I usually go with Joe or a friend) but I was … More

100 pieces, 1993, animals, Colours, Complete, Dinosaurs, illustration, Jigsaw Puzzles, Kids Puzzles, Made in USA, Muscular, nostalgia, RoseArt, Stegosaurus, Vintage, Vintage Kids Puzzles

Sailboats Reflected

I’ve spoken before on this blog about my year living in Germany without a job and free to do whatever … More

1989, 550 Piece, boats, Colours, Complete, DDR, Jigsaw Puzzles, Made in USA, nostalgia, Random House Publishing, Reflection, Sailboats, Sails, Vintage

Blooming Miracles

Long before I started this blog, maybe around 2013, I found a copy of this stunning Spring fever dream of … More

1977, 500piece, animals, Blooming Miracles, Brand New, Butterfly, Colourful, Colours, Complete, factory sealed, flowers, Jigsaw Puzzles, Made in USA, Monarch Butterfly, nostalgia, photography, Vintage

Birds of the World

More Birds! This one however, I chose. I went to a puzzle trade at a local store in Dartmouth and … More

1000 piece, animals, Birds, Birds of the World, Collage Style Puzzle, Colours, Complete, Dartmouth, Diana Beltran Herrera, Galison, Grid style, Jigsaw Puzzles, Ornithology, Paper Art, Postage Stamps, puzzle trade, Trainyard Store

Watching and Waiting

I met a couple at the last Curio Collective Vintage show that I was selling puzzles at, who contacted me … More

320 Pieces, animals, Atlas, Colours, dogs, German Shorthair Pointer, Hunting Dogs, illustration, Jigsaw Puzzles, Kitsch, memories, nostalgia, Oma, Somerville Games, Vintage, Vintage puzzles, Watching and Waiting

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology – American Goldfinch

This mini New York Puzzle Company puzz of a pair of Goldfinches gathering supplies for a nest was a stocking … More

100 piece, American Goldfinch, animals, Birds, Brand New, Colours, factory sealed, illustration, Jigsaw Puzzles, Made in USA, Mini Puzzles, Missing Piece, New York Puzzle Co., The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Don’t Toy With Us!

Sometimes you just gotta go for the silly, the colourful, the ridiculous. All these 90s toys all scattered on the … More

1990s, 500piece, Ceaco, Colours, Jigsaw Puzzles, Kitsch, Made in USA, Magnets, nostalgia, Only Child, Pick Up Stix, toys, Vintage

The Last Supper

Oh Milton Bradley! If you know, you know. When I find a Milton Bradley puzzle from 1965, I have to … More

1000 Pieces, 1965, 61 Years Old, Colours, Complete, Hand Talkers, Hands, Hans Zatzka, Jigsaw Puzzles, Kitsch, Leonardo da Vinci, Made in USA, Milton Bradley, the Last Supper, Vintage, Zabarti

The Checkers Game – the Saturday Evening Post

Happy April Fool’s Day! Do you prank people on April 1st? I don’t, I honestly always forget, just like I … More

1943, 1990s, 500piece, April Fool's, Checkers, Colours, Complete, Jigsaw Puzzles, Kitsch, Made in USA, Mistakes, Norman Rockwell, nostalgia, Puzzle PLUS, Saturday Evening Post, Springbok, Vintage

Wonderbread

Today’s post features a unique puzzle that I can only speculate why it exists. And, that, my friends is a … More

250 pieces, Branded puzzles, Bread, Colours, Complete, illustration, Jigsaw Puzzles, Poor Quality, Promotion, Wonderbread

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