Photo: Tree in Golden Light, April 22, 2011
Beading: Breastfeeding Necklace – Tricolour Spiral Flower
Puzzle: Niagara Falls, U.S.A.
Size: 750 pieces
Dimensions: 59.7 cm x 39.4 cm
Producer: Sure-Lox
Notes: The Niagara Falls are waterfalls in North America. These voluminous waterfalls are situated on the Niagara River, straddling the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York. The falls are 27 km north-northwest of Buffalo, New York and 121 km south-southeast of Toronto, Ontario, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New …
Photo: Sunset Arch, April 22, 2011
Book: Аля, Кляксич и другие, by Ирина Токмакова
Title: Аля, Кляксич и другие
Author: Ирина Токмакова
Source: Veddma library
ISBN: 978-5-271-11578-3
Link: http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/3374504/
Notes: This book includes five stories designed to teach pre-school and early-school children Russian alphabet, numbers from 0 to 10, Russian grammar, Russian orthography, and English alphabet. The stories are united by the single protagonist – the girl Alya. In some stories she is accompanied by her friend Anton that is the same age as her.
I remember the Russian alphabet …
Photo: Golden River, Dipping Branches, April 22, 2011
Puzzle: Vatican, Italy
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 48.4 cm x 35.5 cm
Producer: Sure-Lox
Notes: Vatican City or Vatican City State is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of approximately 110 acres, and a population of just over 800.
Vatican City was established in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty, signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Gasparri, on behalf of the Holy See …
Beading: Blue Cloud earrings
Beading: Deep Blue earrings with Swarovski crystals
Puzzle: Trevi Fountain
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 48.26 cm x 35.56 cm
Producer: Sure-Lox, Land Marks series
Box: photo
Notes: The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi rione in Rome, Italy. Standing 25.9 meters high and 19.8 meters wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world.
The fountain at the junction of three roads (tre vie) marks …
Puzzle: House in Wales
Size: 500 pieces
Notes: Not depicted on the puzzle, Simon Dale has built a house fit for hobbits in Wales. “Some of the characteristics of the wooden house are that it’s dug inside a hillside for shelter, lime plaster and mud are used to keep the walls sticking together, straw balls are used in floor, roof and walls, solar panels are installed for lightning, music and computers, and skylight on the roof gives natural light.” There are …
Beading: Blue Ellipses earrings with Swarovski crystals
Puzzle: Italian Feast
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 35.56 cm x 45.72 cm
Producer: PuzzleMakers International
Box: photo
Notes: An Italian feast opens with antipasti (literally, “before the meal”), or appetizers. The antipasti is followed by the primi, consisting of a light pasta or soup. The main dish, secondi, is a meat or a fish platter. Some recipes will call for braciole, which means cutlets with the bone. The secondi is served with the fourth course …
Beading: Garnet teardrop earrings with cathedral beads and Swarovski fire opal crystals
Puzzle: Nature’s Bounty
Size: 500 pieces
Producer: RoseArt, Encore series
Notes: bounty (plural bounties)
1. generosity
2. something given liberally
3. A reward for some specific act, especially one given by a government or authority
4. (nautical) formerly, money paid to volunteers for serving in the British navy in time of war
Puzzle: Taste of Tuscany, Cucina Allegra
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 48.26cm x 35.56cm
Producer: The Canadian Group, Sure-Lox, Taste of Tuscany series
Notes: “Cucina allegra” according to Google translates to “Happy kitchen”. If anyone speaks Italian, please correct this if it is wrong.
As I could not find anything online with this name, I assume it is the artistic description of the painting. And so, I found a site in the UK called “Happy Kitchen” and browsed around. It seems, the …
Beading: Green Flower Crystal and Turquoise Pewter Earrings
Beading: Black and blue with gold-colour glitter folded flower lampworked glass pendant necklace on black cord
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Puzzle: Taste of Tuscany, Bella Piazza
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 48.26cm x 35.56cm
Producer: The Canadian Group, Sure-Lox, Taste of Tuscany series
Notes: A piazza is a city square in Italy, Malta, along the Dalmatian coast and in surrounding regions. The term is roughly equivalent to the Spanish plaza. In Ethiopia, it is used to refer to a part of a city. [Wiki]
Plaza is a Spanish word related to “field” which describes an open urban …
Puzzle: Rustic home
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 40.64cm x 40.64cm
Producer: Hasbro, MB Puzzle
Notes: rus·tic
–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
2. simple, artless, or unsophisticated.
3. uncouth, rude, or boorish.
4. made of roughly dressed limbs or roots of trees, as garden seats.
5. (of stonework) having the surfaces rough or irregular and the joints …