We had some great coverage of our production and dispatching areas highlighting the extra safety precautions we have in place to keep our staff safe whilst still providing our customers with new puzzles.
ITV chatted to our Managing Director, Sarah Watson about the impact Covid-19 has had on the business and to our Production Manager, Tom Webb who explained why he thinks jigsaw puzzles are proving so popular during this crisis.
With many of us spending more time at home than usual plenty of us are looking for rewarding and engaging ways to spend the extra time we have on our hands - whether it’s spring cleaning the house, honing your signature Victoria sponge cake recipe or learning that skill we always wanted to.
When it comes to fun things to do at home, we are starting to see a big resurgence of home based, analogue games and hobbies, not least the humble jigsaw puzzle!
What many of you will know already and relish is the fact that our puzzles have intriguing puzzle cuts, all hand designed by ourselves, making our puzzles truly unique, extra challenging and rewarding. Coupled with the fact they are made of wood, there are no other jigsaw puzzles like them.
Choosing Christmas presents can be tricky. You might know what they love, what inspires them and also what they really don’t like as well. But matching all that to a Christmas gift that surprises them, so that when they tear away the wrapping paper they exclaim with a genuine “ooooh lovely”, is the real trick. It’s something we all want after our hard work of searching for the ideal present.
A historical link to the puzzles of Victorian past, a whimsy is a special puzzle piece cut into recognisable shapes such as a car or butterfly. Often designed to match the jigsaws theme, whimsies add a fun and playful twist to our puzzles!
This National Jigsaw Day we wanted to focus on the benefits of using jigsaw puzzles to help you bring mindfulness into your everyday life. To discover a bit more about how mindfulness can help you, we asked life coach and mindfulness expert Simon Alexander Ong to talk to us about what exactly mindfulness is, and how jigsaw puzzles can be the perfect way to practice.
Taking a great photo is often a difficult task. Capturing that perfect shot can feel like pot luck sometimes, and if you’re planning on immortalising your memory with a customised jigsaw puzzle featuring the pic then the pressure is on.
Fortunately, we’ve got a few tips to help you take your best shot.
If you’re lucky enough to get the gift of a jigsaw this Christmas, this is the perfect guide to help you get puzzling! We all have our own little tactics when piecing our puzzles together but here are a few ideas that might help new jigsaw enthusiasts and a few tips that might even help you puzzle pros! If you are going to create one of our extra difficult cut jigsaws, then the following might also be useful.