Beading: Wine charms, Medical
Puzzle: Merlin’s Oak by Myles Pinkney
Size: 500+ pieces
Producer: New Fangled Angles series
Artist: Myles Pinkney is an outstanding fantasy artist. Magic flows through each one if his illustrations, bringing to life a fantasy realm outside that of the architecture of traditional mythology. He also deals with Arthurian legend and religious subject-matter. Works such as “Christmas Presence” and “Merlin’s Oak” demonstrate Pinkney’s ability to articulate his artistic vision in the painstaking detail of his …
Beading: Wine charms, Words, Quest
Puzzle: Dreams of Camelot by Josephine Wall
Size: 750 pieces
Dimensions: 68.58cm x 48.26cm
Producer: Crystals and Candlelight series
Artist: Josephine Wall
Painting: photo
Box: photo
Notes: Camelot is the most famous castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur’s realm and a symbol of …
Puzzle: Connecticut River, U.S.A.
Size: 1000 pieces
Producer: MB Puzzle
Notes: The Connecticut River is the largest river in New England, flowing south from the Connecticut Lakes in northern New Hampshire, along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont, through western Massachusetts and central Connecticut discharging into Long Island Sound at Old Saybrook and Old Lyme, Connecticut.
The river’s name is the French corruption of the Algonquian word “quinetucket” and means long tidal river. The first European …
Beading: Wine charms, Halloween
Puzzle: Three Graces, by Josephine Wall
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 33.02cm x 48.26cm
Producer: Rose Art, Jewel Scapes series
Artist: Josephine Wall is an English born artist who currently resides in the seaside community of Dorset, England. She specializes in mystical, surreal-like, fantasy paintings. [Bio on Josephine Wall site]
Notes: Three inseparable sisters – daughters of Zeus, representing all that is noble, beautiful and pure, keep watch from above. Aglaia (brightness) symbolised by brightly coloured butterflies, …
Beading: Wine charms, Words, D&D meets B&D
Puzzle: Venice Carnival
Size: 750 pieces
Dimensions: 73cm x 48.57cm
Producer: Sure-Lox
Notes: The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival starts around two weeks before Ash Wednesday and ends on Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras), the day before Ash Wednesday. Carnival started as a time for celebration and expression throughout the classes, as wearing masks hid any form of identity between social classes.
Masks …
Beading: Wine charms, Drinks
Puzzle: Alphabet of Thorn, by Kinuko Craft
Size: 1000 pieces
Producer: Master Pieces
Artist: Kinuko Craft – Japanese-born American contemporary painter, illustrator and fantasy artist. Craft came to the United States in 1964 where she continues to live and work today. Her art has included paintings for the book covers of many well known fantasy authors such as Patricia A. McKillip, Juliet Marillier, Tanith Lee and many others. She has also designed opera posters, fairy tale books and painted cover …
Beading: Wine charms, Symbols
Puzzle: Moonlight Calm by Anthony Casay
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 35cm x 48cm
Artist: Anthony Casay has been described as one of the world’s most creative contemporary painters today. It has been said that the “ocean dances” at the tip of his brush, and that the sun pulsates from his canvas. Casay depicts the colors, fragrances and shapes of the sea; its waters in turmoil–providing a spectacle of rare excitement. Each Casay wave has a personality of its own as …
Самоучитель для продвинутых родителей, by Милана Касакина
Title: Самоучитель для продвинутых родителей: Счастливый дитёнок – без запар и пелёнок.
Author: Милана Касакина
Source: Veddma library
ISBN: 978-5-49807-427-6
Link: http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/4510706/
Notes: The books carries on with the metaphor of a child being a “device” you acquire and this book serving as a manual to learn to operate that device. The metaphor is somewhat poor and the …
Beading: Wine charms, Celtic
Puzzle: Spring Concerto
Size: 500 pieces, 2 missing
Dimensions: 45.72cm x 35.56cm
Photographer: Dietrich Leis
Producer: E&L Corporation
Notes: Dianne Dietrich Leis, photographing professionally since 1977, began her career running the family commercial studio in Phoenix. In that capacity she did weddings, portraits, and commercial assignments. She continues the family tradition of landscape and travel photography. Her photo shoots in Europe, Mexico, and Costa Rica have broadened the scope of the collection. In addition, …
Beading: Wine charms, Animals
Puzzle: The Love Song by Norman Rockwell
Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 73cm x 48.57cm
Painting: photo
Producer: Sure-Lox
Box: photo
Artist: Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) – a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades. [ Read more
