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Puzzle Hobby In Seven Years

Puzzle Hobby has been reviewing jigsaw puzzles for over seven years. Also, during that time, there have been many events created, many new friendships developed and many activities attended. It was only a matter of time that a magazine would emerge.

It's time to share all of these worldwide mentions in one source. The PuzzleHobby magazine has years of content to present in an organized manner for entertainment.

Jigsaw Puzzlers tend to be very generous people who thrive on paying it forward. That said, there are many resources and members who contributed to the production of this magazine so we'd like to give a special thanks for their continued support.

Linda Richard

Editor

Lest We Forget

November is a very special month for many people around the world. On the 11th month of the 11th day, on the 11th hour, we will remember our Veterans and their families. We thought by sharing this puzzle created by Linda Richard would be a great way to give our fallen ones recognition. Below is a beautifully designed Remembrance Day puzzle. The poem, a well recognized poem throughout the world, was written on the battlefield by one of our home boys Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. His home is a museum in Guelph, ON Canada.

What A Puzzling Idea!

Photo Provided by Mari Navarro

Mari Navarro & her daughter Eva Meet Mari Navarro and her daughter Eva. Both love puzzles and were running out of storage space. Eva suggested that they start selling the used puzzles to free up more space for new puzzles. They have create dd a little bit of body textd a Facebook page that allows them to Buy-Sell-Swap puzzles and its called Marieva. So it works like this, Mari is in charge of researching and buying the puzzles. She assembles the puzzle and then lists it on their Marieva face page. Eva is responsible for shipping and taking the puzzle orders. She sends the customer an invoice with every packaged puzzle. Marieva Facebook page was started in May, 2019 and it has been very successful. The puzzles are sold for 50% of the retail price they paid. By the end of 2020 Marieva sold approximately 600 puzzles! And, as at this printing time they have already sold 500 puzzles! Mari does her homework when she is searching for new puzzles. She sources out different puzzle companies online and also buys from overseas puzzle companies. One last thing we asked Mari was what advice would she give someone that is interested in starting an online Facebook sales page. Here was her response.

"First, take the time to be super extra organized for every step of the

process and keep good records. This will keep your customers happy and keep you stress-free.

Second, for every puzzle listed include everything interested buyers will need to know, state all the puzzle info so they don ’t need to ask: brand, title, number of pieces, price, condition of box, condition of puzzle, etc.

Third, know that you don

’t always need to use the post office to ship puzzles, in fact that’ s usually the most expensive way. Compare prices between Facebook Marketplace, Pirate Ship, and UPS with the discount

codes they offer from time to time " .

Very impressive for creating a business that involves the love and passion of jigsaw puzzling.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. Deepak Chopra

Jolanda Schnieder has been a member of the Jigsaw Puzzle Connections Facebook Group since February 2015. Since I am attracted to cats and puzzles, I noticed that all her jigsaw puzzles were always cats. I was intrigued by that AND that she has shown there are 1000' s of cat puzzle images out there - she ' s proof of that!

Jolanda lives in Switzerland in a small town called Baden, not far from Zurich. After 37 years as a librarian Jolanda retired in 2013. She has been with her partner Benno for 42 years and has no children. In 2014 they bought their second home on the island Maderia, out in the Atlantic Ocean.

Jolanda started puzzling in her teens. She resumed puzzling in the late 1990' s and could afford to buy every puzzle she wanted. Jolanda soon realized that there were so many puzzles to choose from so she narrowed her puzzling down to Cat motifs, and her collection is 95% cat puzzles. She has approximately 3800, 200 of them not put together.

Jolanda does about 100,000 pieces per year. On average 500-700 pieces per puzzle. Her average time for a 1000 piece is 6.5 hours. But as Jolanda says it' s a " wide range " of time to complete a puzzle.

Photos Provided By Jolanda Schnieder

Cat Tigerin in my home in Switzerland (she was our dearest cat of all our cats, lived 1992-2010) Jolanda at her second home in Maderia, out in the Atlantic Ocean

Cat Missy in my puzzling room in Switzerland

ThereIsNothing QuiteLikeThe Connection BetweenA Mother& Daughter

I thought to end this very interesting story that I would let Sherri herself finish it, with her and how their 'mom and daughter' strategy of puzzling works.