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!!

 

 

XXI. Megamarathon (6.-8. January 2023)

 Oh yes, it was megamarathon again - and again we were lucky to welcome some friends to our house :-)

As 65 participants (including me) from our german jgsaw puzzle forum managed to assemble more than 275k pieces, it was my first MM where I was busy counting and unbusy assembling. At the end I just counted 1600 pieces.

Here we go

 

Festival of Nutcrackers, Randy Wollemann, Wentworth Wooden Jigsaw puzzle, 40 pcs.

Christmas Travel by Jana Fefelowa (2017)

 DaVici, 80 pcs

 

Thank you - Ravensburger, 99 pcs.

 

204 pcs

 

104 pcs.

 

Map of Europe, 200 pcs.

 

2000 pcs. - my part: 300 pcs.(frame and spaghetti)

 

Tanzania, 204 pcs.

 

Umbrellas, 204 pcs.

 

United States of America, 200 pcs.

Finished 6th - 8th January 2017

Oh yes, it was Megamarathon-time again 😊

From 6th to 8th January 43 members of the jigsaw forum took advantage to assemble as many pieces as possible. I was so lucky to host three enthusiasts in my home and we had fun assembling jigsaw puzzles together

And yes, we can! 💪The all-time-record turned out to be broken Sunday evening. Just 705 pieces more = 175.095 pieces assembled during these three days. A bit more than 6000 by me.

So, here we go with the jigsaw puzzles assembled by your blog-mistress

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Friday, 6th January

 500 Pieces

 500 Pieces

 212 Pieces

 108 Pieces

 150 Pieces

150 Pieces

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Saturday, 7th January

 352 Pieces

 112 Pieces

 100 Pieces

 2x 54 Pieces

 77 Pieces

 100 Pieces

 104 Pieces

 54 Pieces

150 Pieces

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Sunday, 8th January

 assembled by a friend and me 

(hers)

mine:

46x 54 Pieces 😃