Our 100th post!!

My, how time flies! This is our 100th post. We have had such fun writing about the Joy's of Jigsaws the time has simply flown. Here is a quote from the forward of the book 'The Jigsaw Puzzle. Piecing together a history" by Anne Williams. "Puzzles aren't a way to kill time, as many think. In my experience, the most avid puzzlers are often people with the least amount of discretionary time." Now there is a statement I really agree with. Thanks for reading our Blog over the last two and a half years and 100 posts. We hope you have found it as interesting and enjoyable as we have to write it.

Japanese themed jigsaws

These Japanese themed jigsaws are beautifully coloured and detailed - an absolute pleasure to do!

Hein 1000 pieces

Yoi 1000 pieces

Japanese Garden 1000 pieces.

A special message from a very special puzzler!

"Thank you for my puzzle. I'm very good at doing puzzles and it's soooo exciting especially when we do it together as a family. We lost the last piece and I was really disappointed. We looked all night for it and then another day I found it in my Barbie box. I was so excited and dashed and put it in! My puzzle looks awesome, she is so pretty. I liked glueing the jewels on at the end." Love Abby, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Age 6 years.

Coffee table, inspired by jigsaw puzzles

Now here is a use for those puzzles with missing pieces - United Kingdom designer, Rupert McKelvie has produced a coffee table inspired by jigsaw puzzles. The coffee table is known as Missing Pieces Coffee Table.

Within this design, Rupert McKelvie used several jigsaw puzzle sets with missing pieces. Individual missing pieces makes a puzzle incomplete or functionless. However, in other hands, individual missing pieces produce a complete and functional stylish coffee table. Read more about it here

Timelapse video

Wouldn't we all like to do a jigsaw at this speed...
No, no fun at all!!

Puzzle Pyramids

Here is a whole new concept in jigsaws - A unique 3D puzzle in the shape of a perfect pyramid.
Piece the 240 high quality plastic pieces together to form a fantastic 3D puzzle. The puzzlepyramid® is created with a mixture of flat and hinged pieces, all of which are numbered on the reverse (just in case you decide to piece the puzzle together using the numbers rather than the picture). The completed pyramid is a unique decorative object with five sides of imagery.
I am working on one at the moment, and I am really delighted with the result.

Worlds largest puzzle completed!

A couple who are recently married, are the first in the UK to complete putting together the 32,000 pieces which make up the Ravensburger jigsaw Double Retrospect. They spent just under 12 weeks putting together the jigsaw which has a finished size of 544 x 172 cms. Read more about them here