161 Pieces
Zodiac
A wooden jigsaw puzzle by Artefakt, Philos Series
assembling since 2008 - and still busy in 2026 :-)
In March 2025 this tiny LEGO toucan found it's way in our home and it was about time to find him or her a friend.
500 Pieces
The Barker-Scatchits
By Linda Jane Smith
Gibsons, 2019 to commemorate the 100th birthday of the family owned company
It made me smile, even after I’d read that the artist uses AI to create works like this.
It’s a bit like origami.
The title is "Townscape" by Viktor Gavriloski
Manufacturer: HEYE, Germany, "Paper-like" series, square-shaped puzzle. I just found that series on the website of the manufacturer: it consits of 3 different pictures.
Update 12th May
Macarons Cookies (© Adobe Stock)
Trefl double-sided jigsaw puzzle
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By the way: I assembled this one not by the shape of the pieces, but by the colours. Started with violet, then turned to green, sand, blue, yellow and finally red :-D
Swallow's Nest, Crimea
Ukraine: Ластівчине гніздо
The Swallow's Nest is a decorative castle located at Gaspra, a small spa town between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula. It was built between 1911 and 1912, on top of the 40-metre-high Aurora Cliff, in a Neo-Gothic style for Pavel Leonardovich von Steingel, a Russian noble with German roots. The building is compact in size, measuring only 20 m long by 10 m wide.
Restoration of the building began in 1968. The project involved the restoration of a small portion of the castle and the addition of a monolithic console concrete plate to strengthen the cliff.
Swallow's Nest is depicted on a coin of the National Bank of Ukraine.
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Jigsaw puzzle by Step Puzzle (Russia)
In 2014 a group of friends travelled to Rome to visit the Vatican and give a present to the late Pope Francis. It was a very special atmosphere being in Rome and as a group, as well. It was outstandingly peaceful.
Since then we meet as often as we can and last saturday we finally met again.
Just enjoy the impressions of a perfect day in spring, a perfect sky and perfect sweets :-)))
The entrance to the church dedicated to Christ the King, marked with a huge door named the Portal to Paradise