Puzzle ready to go!

The little puzzle from Amatheria is already mounted on its definitive place:

I chose a parchment canvas over a little balsa wood board - I used very little crafting glue, which I applied with a toothpick, to glue each piece onto the canvas. 

The glueing process

I love how it turned out!  I am currently waiting on a little side table to put it in the drawing room, as if my tenant was working on it. 

I left two pieces out, although they are glued as well, so it would show it is a real puzzle, and not just an image with the pieces shapes drawn onto it (my tenant said she did not mind that only two pieces were left out).

I must confess I am very relieved that none of the pieces were lost during the whole process - now they won't!

Mini puzzle already made!

My vampire tenant wants you all to know that she has already assemble her puzzle:

She hopes you enjoy it, and asks that please, nobody else gifts her unsolved puzzles.  But you can order one for yourself from Amatheria here.

As soon as I find a place for it in the dollhouse I'll post pictures.  I am still figuring out the logistics on how to display it so it can be seen it is a puzzle, and not just an image.

Miniature puzzles

I am a puzzle fan, and I have posted here some of the puzzles my husband and I did in the past.  You cannot imagine my surprise when I found on Etsy a seller that had miniature puzzles for dollhouses!  

His shop is called Amatheria, Pablo is the owner, and he has some amazing miniatures that I very much regret I cannot put in my own dollhouse.  Take a note of this wonderful Art Nouveau set:

Or these amazing working miniatures. A TV set:

An Arcade machine:

Or a gramophone.  Maybe I can save for one of these:

For now, I purchased a puzzle with a design by Alphone Mucha - "Job":

It was a gift for my vampire tenant.  I must say she did not seem very happy when she saw it, but she took it from my hands and said she was going to do it immediately.  I was baffled, but then I remembered that thing about vampires having to stop what they were doing when someone throws a bag of thorns or seeds in the floor before them and they have to count each and every one of the dropped items.  Maybe puzzles are something like that for them too.  I hope she is not very angry at me...

A week of puzzles

Puzzles are a hobby that my husband and I started recently.  Since I have been so busy with my studies we have not been able to make them for some time.  But this Easter we have done a couple.  We took them with enthusiasm, and we finished them almost immediately.  These were a present from the Thee Wise Men (the Spanish equivalent to Santa Claus), and we just finished them:

The Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci (500 pieces)

Yoi - Haruyo Morita (1000 pieces)

Sadness - Luis Royo (1000 pieces)

The Amerigo Vespucci we did in Christmas.  The other two we did in the course of a week (Easter break), and we are so happy how they turned out.  They are all framed and hanging as decorations in our home.  The ship is in our bathroom, and it is a considerable improvement - now it seems we have a window, although we do not.

We are still deciding which puzzle we will make next.  Here are some others that we made in the past:

La Dolorosa - Victoria Francés (1000 pieces)

Hien - Haruyo Morita (1000 pieces)

What about yourself?  Do you like puzzles?