Main Street by Joseph Holodook – Cra-Z-Art – approx. 83/500 pieces

Two more buildings from days gone by, places that look as though they’d be lovely to visit. Perhaps it’s the messed up world we live in today, but these puzzles have made me wish for the simpler times depicted in these little puzzles.

No time in history was without it’s problems of course, and I’d be trading one set of issues for another; but that’s how I’m feeling today.

Know what I love about this little puzzle? No one is staring at a smart phone and ignoring everyone else around them; the kids are playing tic-tac-toe in the foreground and two women are having an actual conversation – what a novel idea! (Yes, I’m feeling a little salty and cranky this morning)

This is the last of the buildings that were also part of the previous set, check out Christmas Town Day 4 again. The season has changed from winter to spring or summer, I can’t really tell which. I wonder though, how much need would there really be for a florist? Is that just me overthinking it? Probably, but that’s what I do. 😉

Main Street by Joseph Holodook – Cra-Z-Art – approx. 83/500 pieces

I really enjoyed these little buildings, they were so much fun to put together. Have you tried any of these sets before? There are plenty to choose from, and even if you usually only work larger puzzles you may find that these are entertaining at assemble as well.

The artist, Joseph Holodook, has quite a few images out there on puzzles besides the ones I’ve done in these sets of mini puzzles. Most of the ones I’ve seen are on MasterPieces puzzles, but there are a few other brands as well. He mostly paints Americana and Christmas images, and the detail in his work is amazing.

Whether old or new I do love a bookstore! Everyone in the street has a book, is reading one, or is buying or selling a book – this is my kinda town. Even the dogs are looking at a book cover! The quaintness of this image was so sweet. 📚💚

This big barn wasn’t as easy to put together as you might imagine, at least not for me; but I got there in the end. I love the words on the side of this one “We build shack to chateau” and “Don’t be a woodchuck, use a professional Romanchuk”.

Main Street by Joseph Holodook – Cra-Z-Art – approx. 83/500 pieces

Normally one of these sets of twelve shaped mini puzzles would be shown over four days, with three puzzles per day; but I’m stretching it out to six this time to give myself a few extra days to get more puzzles back in the queue. 😎

If you’ve been a reader here for a while you’ll know that each of these sets has colored backing applied to each small puzzle, twelve different colors so that you can sort them into each mini puzzle if you like. Or if you’d rather work these as a 500 piece puzzle you can disregard the backing and just start solving. The pieces are a good thickness with a nice variety of shapes that fit together well. Sometimes the colored backing isn’t cut all the way through leaving several pieces attached, but that doesn’t bother me much. The finish is a bit shiny, but not too terrible to deal with. Overall I find these to be good quality puzzles that are highly entertaining to assemble.

The detail in each of these houses/shops is amazing and they could all be their very own larger piece count puzzles. The colors are bright and fun and the Americana theme is entertaining to assemble. I’d love to go into an old-timey hat shop – wouldn’t that be something to see?

Does this look familiar to anyone? It did to me so I searched my site for the artist, and guess what I found? Check out Christmas Town Day 2, see anything interesting? There were three buildings in the Main Street set that were the same as in Christmas Town, but this is the only one that is EXACTLY the same with zero changes. The other two are the same building but in a different season with changes to the people and things on the outside.

I’m imagining what an antique shop would be like a century or more ago, what treasures would it hold? There would probably be more than a few things that we wouldn’t even be able to identify what they were used for – that would be fascinating!

I had such a good time putting these puzzles together, now all I have to do is buckle down and write up the next five posts for this set. Here’s hoping I don’t get carpal tunnel syndrome from all the typing. ⌨

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*Side note – I checked out Cra-Z-Art’s website and found three new sets that I don’t have! Guess who’s going online shopping very soon????🛒💸*