A spirited journey through the world of collectible artisan puzzles
Pairing craft cocktails with crafty puzzles
Donay Bottle
“I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle” - Ellen DeGeneres
Puzzle Balls
The “puzzle ball” is certainly one of the oldest known examples of a puzzling object. These ivory spheres were hand carved, with freely moving inner spheres nesting one inside the other.
Cannon Puzzles
“The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Castle Money Box
Treen Castle is not a castle, it’s a jagged rocky promontory of cliffs that sit on the edge of Cornwall, England in the town of Treen.
Barrel and Ball
Small wooden household and domestic objects were referred to as “treen” in the nineteenth century and earlier, a word derived literally from “of a tree”.
Donay Pear
We’re taking a sabbatical abroad this summer at Boxes and Booze to visit England and shine the spotlight on a very special wood turner named John Berkeley.