Looking for some comments here. This is a new design for one of our favorite 500-piece jigsaw puzzles, and used to be called ‘The Vanishing Prairie’. Time to spice it up a bit, so here’s the new version coming out in spring of 2014. If you have the time and are fans of our puzzles, I’d love some feedback. Some of you guys have bought dozens of them.

     I began counting up the number of these things we’ve done. It’s been over 20 years now since we stopped focusing on posters and moved our interpretive products more into jigsaw puzzles. It seems there’s more actual usage of the art than just hanging a poster on the wall. It all started back in about 1990 when a German company bought three images I had previously painted for Yosemite and (I think) Crater Lake. Over the years, that number has grown to between 70 and 75. That’s a LOT of puzzles. Other companies have bought the rights to use the images, but I still prefer to mess around with the designs myself. It’s like building a stage set, with lots of layers and story-telling. This one has 34 layers, and never mind the box front and back – that’s just the puzzle. There’s another new one coming out in spring for Crater Lake that has a lesson plan inside – more layers!

Anyway: what do you think? Seems like this will be a fun time finding all these little extra critters, but I don’t know. You see, I’m almost ashamed to say I’ve never put one of them together!

Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert

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