Completed 5th May 2025

  

500 Pieces

Junge River

Castorland

Completed 3rd May 2025

500 Pieces

 

Elephant Family

by Jan Patrick Krasny

Ravensburger, 2020

Completed 29th August 2023 + updated 5th September 2023

  

248 wooden Pieces

Elephant

Manufacturer: Trefl 

including whimsical pieces which have to be removed carefully from the wooden jigsaw puzzle: 

 

Finished 22nd July 2022

500 Pieces

Ottifantenpolonaise

okay, an "Ottifant" is not only a trademark, but also a blend of the nickname of Otto Waalkes, a german comedian, and the word "elephant". They featured on the cover of his first album release. 

 A Polonaise is a conga-line ;-)

Otto Waalkes was born 1948 in the north of germany, at Emden. His origin is a running gang throughout his career. Waalkes' humor consists of puns and word plays as well as the use of silly and funny language, noises and body language. Parodies, for instance in form of popular songs that he revises and presents with his guitar, are typical stylistic elements. Additionally, he often imbeds satire, political innuendos and critique of time and society into his humorous performances. 

 

 

Finished 21st March 2021

  

 107 Pieces

Colourful Elephant

a wooden jigsaw puzzle from an unknown manufacturer in Asia

including eight whimsies showing elephants

 

Finished 29th November 2020 (incl. development process)

 

 2000 Pieces

Title: "The big five" by David Penfound

 

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Development process:

Here we go again ... 2000 pcs. made by Bookmark, Germany

In Africa, the Big Five animals are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros (both south-central black and southern white species), elephant, and Cape buffalo. The term is now widely used by safari tour operators.

Countries where all can be found include Angola, Botswana, Zambia, Uganda, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Malawi 

 

 16th November:

 

 

It's time to sort things out:

 

 

Rhino and Elephant are ready to play

19th November: the buffalo ...

22nd November: leo wants to play, too

28th November: the lion king has to wait a bit ...

to be completed

29th November: here we are 💓

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