Completed 24th December 2025

 Merry Christmas

I am happy to reveal the jigsaw puzzles from those wonderful advent calendars, prepared by many wonderful friends 

Balmoral Castle

Buckingham Palace

Windsor Castle

Sandringham 

4x 500 Pieces

Artist: Steve Crisp

Manufacturer: Ravensburger, Happy days No. 5, 2022

 From famous castles to famous roses:

 1000 Pieces

"Rainbow of Roses" 

Photo and design by Tony Ruta

F.X.Schmid, Germany, 1992 

Top (left to right): Tournament of Roses, Golden Showers, Elizabeth Arden Pink, Kordes Perfect

2nd row: Tropicana, First Prize, Journey's End, Fortune

3rd row: Dream Time, Heirloom, First love, Queen Elizabeth

below: American beauty,  Spanish Gold, Charlotte Armstrong, First love 

Some funny Gelinis 

1000 Pieces

Gelini Christmas

PuzzleYou, Smart sorted, which means, there are 40 boxes with 25 pcs. included 

Last but not least: the Grinch

1008 Pieces

Santa's Surprise Advent Calendar

Manufacturer unknown (made in China, maybe Apex) 

 

It's that special time of the year again: advent calendars 2025 - update: day 24 :-)

 I am the luckiest and most grateful girl in the world: four different advent calendars are waiting for me. We have bags, boxes and envelopes

Yessss - no more words to say, except: get started for Day 1

 Day 2

 

 

Day 3 (2 more to assemble)

 

 

day 5

 

just check those 2 lower left corners... 5 jigsaw puzzles to assemble :-)

 

 Day 7

 

Day 12
 

 day 16 - uncompleted yet

 

 Day 1-18

 

 Day 20

 

 Merry Christmas everybody!!

 

 

Sunday walk

 Today the sun came out after several gray days and we took a short walk around the moated castle Werdringen (really: not more than 5 minutes...)

 

The moated castle was acquired by the city of Hagen in 1977. Since 1985, extensive renovation work has been carried out in cooperation with a citizens' association, which was completed with the establishment of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History. Today, the moated castle is a popular destination in the Ruhr Valley and South Westphalia. 

 

The café was floated with guest and due to freezing cold temperatures we decided to drive to the nearby town Herdecke to find another café

 

Spring is almost there:

Completed 24th December 2024 (2/3)

  

1000 Pieces

Belvedere Palace, Vienna

(c) Manchan, Getty Images (has been uploaded there in 2007)

 The Belvedere is a World Heritage Site, a Baroque jewel, one of the oldest museums in the world, and a showcase for contemporary art. Please enjoy the Folder on the Museum's Website

The main garden, which is depicted here, is situated between the Lower and the Upper Belvedere and extends over three large terraces. The design, by Dominique Girard, garden architect of the Elector of Bavaria, showcases all the essential elements of Baroque garden architecture: symmetrical flower parterres, water basins, tiers and steps, trimmed hedges, and more.

Finished 6th August 2022

  

500 Pieces

Chambord Castle

 47° 36′ 58″ N, 1° 31′ 2″ E

The Château de Chambord in France, close to the city of Blois, is one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures. The building, which was never completed, was constructed by Francis I

^{Photographer: Tony Stone}

^{Manufacturer: Ravensburger, 1976}

 The detail shows the so-called corps de logis

Finished 25th March 2022

  

1200 Pieces

 Palace and garden in the baroque era

Illustrated by Hans Joachim Dräger

Swans have always been a symbol of royalty

 

people in the gardens, dressed in typical baroque garments and hairstyle

Guests arrive in a carriage and pair of white horses on the "courtyard of honours"

 A special flower-bed called "Embroidery", because it looks like an embroidered fabric

A maze or Labyrinth

 Sometimes small castles have been extended to huge palaces. In this illustration the castle has been built inside a lake. It is now connected to the palace.

 

This is the so-called "grand terrasse" with bassins, flower-beds and fountains. In the baroque era the guests should be impressed by the beauty and extraordinary design as well as the possibility of the landlord to subordinate nature to his will and "power".

Finished 29th January 2021

 Assembled 1st Dec. 2020 - 29th Jan. 2021

6000 pcs.

Linderhof Castle

A vintage jigsaw puzzle by Schmidt Puzzle

Photography by Kinkelin-Huber