A New Yorker Cover a Day puzzle, day 7

I enjoyed the little bit of challenge in this puzzle. It’s not a particularly difficult image, but the lack of color meant it was down to shades of gray and the little smatterings of white once you get the title and the oval frame done. I’m certain that this wouldn’t happen in most apartments today, […]

A new yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, Day 6

The whole time I was working on this puzzle, I was drawn to the sky and the trees. The scenery reminded me of those days when it’s dark and overcast and you know that snow is coming. It’s been sunny here, which is nice, but there’s just something fun about the dark clouds that signal […]

A New Yorker Cover a day puzzle, day 5

The puzzle today is “Season’s Greetings” by Beatrice Szanton. I don’t have much in the way of thoughts about this puzzle. I like the classic image of cards on the mantle. They don’t quite look like card images I’d expect to see in 1960, but then I don’t know much about the art scene in […]

My closet of Puzzles

The house I grew up in had a great closet for puzzles. My parents built the system with my love for puzzles in mind. The apartments I’ve lived in also had great closets for puzzles. I even had a walk-in closet in one that had puzzles stacked as high as I could manage. This house, […]

Kitten Kitchen capers

One thing that I’ve recently discovered about myself is that I’m a bit of a cat person. I’ve always liked cats, but I’ve never been one for images of cats. Images of my own cat are perfectly fine. I have hundreds (that might be a slight exaggeration) of them. Now, I don’t have a cat […]

A New Yorker Cover a Day puzzle, day 4

I never glance ahead at the next day’s puzzle, so when I pulled this one out, I was surprised. It’s not an image that I think I would say I can’t leave the store without it, but when I started working on it, I really liked the variety and activity on the image. There’s so […]

A New Yorker Cover a Day puzzle, day 3

Today’s puzzle was “Xmas Stories” by Joost Swarte. I liked the quirkiness of this cover and the different stories it did try to tell. Some of them are perhaps a little nonsensical, especially on the surface, but there’s some room for interpretation and storytelling. I glanced at the box when I was pulling it from […]

A New Yorker Cover a Day puzzle, day 2

Today’s puzzle was a New Yorker cover from 1985, which is much more recent than the previous day’s. The image is called “Deck the Mantle” by Iris VanRynbach. There’s really not much complicated about these advent puzzles, but I do really like that they’re all 100 pieces and they’re good quality pieces. This one did […]