Completed 20th September 2025

500 Pieces

 

Don't hurry, be happy

Howard Robinson, 2019 

 

Castorland 

Completed 30th March 2025

   

1000 Pieces

Madame Butterfly by B. Lacombe

  Benjamin Lacombe (*1982) - his style has a vintage look while being contemporary. Lacombe has come to be seen as one of the leaders of contemporary french illustration. Having grown up in Paris, Lacombe pursued his schooling at the city’s iconic École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) before publishing his first graphic novel at the age of 19. Now his career has truly taken off, with his works published and translated around the world.

Manufacturer: Paperblanks

 

 

Here you can see the shimmering dots

 

 

 

Under construction: Madame Butterfly, Paperblanks (1000 pcs.) - updated 28th March and completed

I started assembling Madame Butterfly by B. Lacombe

Manufacturer: paperblanks 

A gift from my mother 💕

 

 The pieces are a bit thinner than f.e. Ravensburger, but stable, with a matte surface and some schimmering parts

I really love this jigsaw puzzle

 

 A new update - seems like I like to assemble the sandcoloured pieces first

 

 yes, sandcolour and the butterflies afterwards

 

 a bit here, a piece there... 

Update 28th march

 

 

 

 

 

 

Completed 26th Januar 2025

1000 Pieces

Feathered friends

By Hannah Dale

Wrendale Designs, UK

Under construction: Hannah Dale "Birds", 1000 pcs. - Completedn.

 

A sturdy cardboard box, standing upright. Inside a paper bag with a pretty adhesive label.

Amazing, very subtle and beautiful illustrations by Hannah Dale

Hannah Dale began Wrendale Designs in 2012 on a crowded kitchen table in Melton Ross. Inspired by the glorious Lincolnshire countryside, Hannah started to paint hares; loving their expressive faces and wonderful personalities.

Since then the company has won many prestigious awards in recognition of their successes. In 2021 Hannah was awarded a NatWest Everywoman Award. Wrendale have also received five Henries awards (the Oscars of the greeting card industry!) for their wonderful greeting cards.

I got to know these magical puzzles (or one of them) at a forum meeting in 2024.

 

The only downer: the price is quite high (approx. 30 €), the puzzle smelled strangely strong when I poured it out of the bag for the first time - and it's “made in China”... 

But let us not talk about downers: I already started assembling it after a few days of

 

Usually I collect the outstanding colours first. The kingfisher bird with its majestic feathers had my full attention:

 

 

 I love these illustrations

Here we are: Friday, weekend and a bit of time before breakfast

... and time to work on the frame

Seems like sorting pieces will bring a quick finish! 

 

Will do it again now to fill the gaps 

Finished 12th July 2023

 Spring and Summer Hedgerow completed

Spring

Summer

both 500 pieces each

Artist: Anne Searle / IBD Licensing UK

Manufacturer: Falcon de luxe Scenery series
 

I visited the Maxipark in Hamm, Germany - and hundreds of butterflies

 The Maximilian Park is an amusement park in Northrhine Westfalia, Germany. It follows the Regional Garden Show which has been built on the area of a black coal mine in 1984.

The landmark is a huge building that looks like an elephant

 

 

Inside the large park is a building with butterflies, hundreds of butterflies

 

 

Finished 23rd January 2022

  

500 Pieces

"Colourful Butterflies"

 given as a present by a lovely friend

manufactured by Ravensburger!

Finished 6th October 2021

  

500 Pieces

 Aglais io - peacock butterfly (German: Tagpfauenauge) 

Photography taken by me in August 2021 on a wonderful lavender in full bloom

Manufactured by Ravensburger

Finished 6th March 2021

 

500 Pieces

World of butterflies 

by Gary Walton

Ravensburger, 2020

Finished 5th February 2021

 Two wonderful LONDJI micropuzzles with 150 pcs. each

Biodiversity

A night in Paris