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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!

Six Interlocking Jigsaw Puzzles

What a find, what a find, what a FIND! I finally joined the car co-op here in Halifax, the weather … More

animals, Brand New, Canadiana, Collections, Colours, Complete, cottage, Countryside, Funky Flea, History, illustration, Jigsaw Puzzles, kids, Kitsch, Mini puzzle, Rainbow, Regal Stationary Co., Shaped Puzzle, Treasure, Vintage, Wilderness

100 Great Words

Keeping on the colourful and busy train, I decided to pull out this very fun typography, vocab puzzle by Eeboo … More

500piece, Brand New, Circular Puzzle, Collage, Colours, Complete, Dollar Tree., Eeboo, Fonts, Glossary, Jigsaw Puzzles, Round puzzle, Text, Typography, Vocabulary, Words

Tangled

I wanted bright colours and a moderate difficulty level for my next puzzle, and Tangled by Four Point Puzzles was … More

1000piece, Artists, Canadian company., closing out sale., Colourful, Colours, Complete, Four Point Puzzles, Graphic Artists, graphic design, illustration, Jigsaw Puzzles, Posterlad, Vratislav Pecka

South Mountain Village

A while back, my friend Shelby, loaned me a puzzle to do for the blog. Do you remember Forever Apples … More

1000piece, Ann Stookey, Artists, Colours, cottage, Countryside, Dr. Puzzle, flowers, illustration, Jigsaw Puzzles, Lobby Puzzles, Missing Pieces, mountains, Nature, nostalgia, painting, spot the difference., Train your brain., Wilderness

Decorative Elephant

At the thrift store a little while ago, I was strolling through the puzzle section feeling pretty unimpressed with the … More

animals, Colours, Complete, Decorative Elephant, Hartmaze Puzzles, illustration, Jigsaw Puzzles, Mini puzzle, Wilderness, Wooden Puzzle

Vintage Advertisements

Ahhhh, to be an ad exec in the 1950s! I guess this is why the show Mad Men was so … More

1950s, 550 pieces, Advertisements, Americana, Cereals, Collage, Colours, Complete, History, illustration, Jigsaw Puzzles, Karmin International, KI Puzzles, Kitsch, Marketing from the 50s, Vintage Ads

Andy Warhol – Flowers

Well, this is one for the books! A lenticular cut 300 puzzle by Galison that picked up on Marketplace. Lenticular … More

Andy Warhol, Artists, Colours, Complete, Contemporary Artists, flowers, Galison, Jigsaw Puzzles, Lenticular puzzle, painting

Yo-yos in Action

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more ridiculous, in 1999, Springbok puzzles decided to make this puzzle – … More

1990s, 1999, 500piece, Colours, Jigsaw Puzzles, kids, Kitsch, Made in USA, Neon, Springbok, toys, Vintage, Yo-yo

Soundtrack to Spring

I think that it’s safe to say that Spring has arrived in Halifax! I am sitting on my patio as … More

animals, Artists, Birds, Birdwatching, Cats, City, Colours, Complete, flowers, illustration, Jigsaw Puzzles, Made in USA, Mini puzzle, Nature, New York, Spring, the New Yorker., Tom Gauld

The 7 Puzzling Wonders of the World

Lina, have you completed this puzzle before? The answer is, yes, I have! If you search back, way back into … More

1000piece, 1980s, 1988, 7 Wonders of the World, animals, Colourful, Colours, Complete, History, illustration, Jigsaw Puzzles, Kitsch, Landscape, Made in USA, Masterpiece, Monuments, Nature, Neon, nostalgia, Springbok, Travel the World, Treasure, Vintage

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