2020-01-26

Development process of a vintage F.X.Schmid jigsaw puzzle ** completed

It's been ages (at least 7 years) that I assembled Linderhof Palace in Bavaria. I found a 1986-jigsaw puzzle in my to-do-pile that rested there for many years, and awakened it a few days ago. I had no idea if this will be a challenge or not.


by now it is pure fun









2020-01-24

Finished 23rd January 2020 ** Memories

500 Pieces

Ocean Memories
Patrick Reid O'Brien

A Clementoni "Wood Puzzle" with a wood-like surface


2020-01-22

Finished 21st January 2020 ** Bavaria

750 Pieces

Birch Path Staffelsee/Bavaria
Photographer: Kirsch (with LEICA)

a vintage jigsaw puzzle by Pelikan AG, Hannover, Germany


take a walk on the light side 
 



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2020-01-20

Finished 19th January 2020 ** Bonsai

500 Pieces

Acer buergerianum
a so-called Trident Maple
Photo by Peggy Greb, USDA

Part of the penjing collection at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum (Washington D.C.), this trident maple, Acer buergerianum, has its roots growing over a rock and its foliage and stems trimmed in the shape of a dragon. (Source)

Permission details: This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the Agricultural Research Service, the research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture.

 Explore amazing Bonsai gardens in Japan

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 Same-day-pic

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2020-01-12

Finished 12th January 2020 ** optical illusions

80 Pieces

Optical Illusion Black and white #3
Moses Verlag GmbH, 2016

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want some more optical illusions? Here we go





2020-01-11

Finished 10th January 2020 (including a "same-day-pic")

1000 Pieces

"de Kruidenier" (The grocer)

We started this jigsaw puzzle on Monday, 6th January. 
It was quite challenging, although it looks "easy-to-assemble"

Manufactured by R&B Premium Quality

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From today I will check my blog every time I post a new picture - and I will show you the oldest jigsaw puzzle posted the same day. It may have been last year or even 2009 ... ready to explore? You'll find the picture by clicking on the "same-day-pic"-link. If there's no same-day-pic, I'll pass on posting without it.

Finished 3rd - 5th January 2020

Oh yes, we had Megamarathon again

Day 1/2 = 3rd + 4th January 2020

180 Pieces
 
Birdhouse
Castorland


160 Pieces

Rangeley, Maine
Photo by Nick Leadley
Manufactured by Squire Boone Village for www.ecopelagicon.com


300 Pieces

Kilimanjaro Morning
Howard Robinson (2015)
Castorland

 100 Pieces

Butterfly - Grafika Kids Animals


 100 pieces

Olive Trees, 1889, Vincent van Gogh
Grafika Kids Art Collection


 100 Pieces

Les Chaumes de Cordeville, 1890, van Gogh
Grafika Kids Art Collection


100 Pieces

Le Vieux Moulin, 1888 (The old mill), van Gogh
 Grafika Kids Art Collection


 100 Pieces

Zen Forest (c) Ariadna de Raadt
Grafika Kids Travel


 100 Pieces

Drum bridge at Meguro and Sunset Hill, 1857
Hiroshige Utagawa
Grafika Kids Art Collection


100 Pieces

Portrait of a young woman, Sandro Botticelli, 1494
Grafika Kids Art Collection

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Day 2/3  =  4th + 5th January

 300 Pieces

Say Cheese! - by Howard Robinson, 2016
Ravensburger


 260 Pieces

Pine Squirrel
Castorland


 150 Pieces

Friends at the Palace
Frozen, Disney, 2016


 300 Pieces

Watching and waiting
Castorland


 260 Pieces

Great horned owl
Castorland


 1530 Pieces

Cupcakes
Ravensburger



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re-assembled for this megamarathon by my husband
I presented them several months or years before





2020-01-10

Finished 1st January 2020

 1000 Pieces

London: Tower Bridge by night
Color Star Line, Ravensburger, 2001

oh yes, it glows in the dark:




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500 Pieces

Disney Gallery
KING jigsaw puzzle