It's a "puzzle"....many different ones were made with lots of different scenes.....some just had solid colors on the sides of the blocks so they could make many different patterns. Wish I could give you a time frame....but I suspect they were made from the early 20th century on. Linda C

Oh what a lovely, crisp color combination. I just love the pattern. It's so cheerful. I'd love to see it set up on someone's table... jaybird..if you do get these, please don't forget to share pictures of them.. :) jane

LOL, Luvs, I've been doing the same thing! I had a major meltdown on Sunday when I'd planned to decorate. Was depressed and couldn't stop crying, guess Dad's services the day before made it so 'final' he's gone and it hit me. So yesterday, I went thru our Easter inspiration album and that picked me up and got me interested. Then I looked at my own albums to see what I did last year and the year before. BIG mistake. LOL. Most of it looked pretty pathetic to me and I started to get down again. But I hauled some of my stuff out and put it in middle of table, which forced me to decorate!!! Things were going good, I thought. Then this morning I looked at what I'd done (with only about 1/3rd of my decos so far) and hated half of it. So I started moving stuff and putting away some again. Arrrgggh. I've got two pantry shelves FULL of things to unpack and I honestly don't know what the heck I'm doing! Seems I not only had my holiday decorating spirit missing so far this year, I have lost confidence in myself to do it nicely. I don't know what is going on but I wish it would "go away" instead. I'll get more stuff out and on the table and see where it leads today tho. sigh. Kathleen, I really hate how awful your weather has been. I wish I could wave a magic wand and send you ours from the past week. However now we are going in the opposite direction from you...Spring here is backing off and this week will be downright HOT. Mid 90s. That's not a good sign in March, summer will be terrible for sure. Hopefully our Spring will come back next week, I'm not ready for our good weather to end yet. hugs, Karen

Those look so cute! You did a great job painting them too. Makes your shelves look very festive. I too learned how to do that at an Airforce base crafts center. Used to carry a couple jugs of "slip" in my car all the time so I would be ready when I had time to go to the crafts center! That was the year DH got sent to Thailand, so cleaning the greenware and painting the ceramics filled many hours that might otherwise have been lonely hours. Back then, there were ceramic stores all over, but now, you can seldom find one. However, Michael's does have a few of those resin pieces that you can buy and paint. One of my friends painted several of those at Christmas. Thanks for showing us your pretty decorations, and bringing back some memories too. ;o) Luvs