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New from PomegranatePuzzles with Larger Pieces

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To order any of these specials and/ or any of the other products featured in this issue complete the Order form below and send with your remittance payable to: The Puzzle Club Ltd. For all unlisted items, please use remaining lines in price list or add a note to your order. (If you don’t want to spoil your newsletter, simply put your request on paper) Please make cheques payable to: The Puzzle Club Ltd and send to The Puzzle Club Ltd - 30 Adelaide Road, Bramhall, Stockport SK7 1LT - For all unlisted items, please add a note in with your order.

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AA575 Tower of Babel: A Medieval Masterpiece 1000 13.00 AA732 Dance at Bougival 1000 13.00 AA784 Oarsmen at Chatou 500 8.00 AA833 Flowers and Envelopes 500 8.00 AA879 Francesca da Rimini 500 8.00 AA896 The Letter S 1000 13.00 AA924 Geometric Herb Garden 1000 13.00 AA931 Sri Yantra Intimacy 1000 13.00 AA936 Where Time Beckons the Wicked 1000 13.00 AA939 Water Hole Diorama 1000 13.00 AA954 AutumnReflections 1000 13.00AA964 Mandala Fruit Tree 500 8.00 C39297 Austrian Mountain House 1000 12.00 CS3327 Little Mermaid 1000 12.00 FJ17311 JvH - City Ice Tour 2000 18.00 FJ19007 JvH World Championship Football 3 x 1000 20.00 G6128 RHS - Best in Show 1000 10.00 G6158 Dayton’s Garage 1000 10.00 G6168 The Airshow 1000 10.00 G6191 The Toy Shop 1000 13.00 JK039 Beyond the Garden Gate 300XL 8.00 JK044 Dorothy 300XL 8.00 PLG9577 Apocalypse 2000 20.00 PLG9636 Cat Symphony (Special Triangular box) 2000 20.00 R14656 Christmas Cuties 500 9.00 R17070 Animals at the Water Hole 3000 20.00 R17823 Animals at the Water Hole 18000 120.00 R19553 Disney - All Aboard for Christmas 1000 13.00 Postage 1 puzzle of £14 or under, 2nd class 2.50Postage More than 1 puzzle, 1st class 4.50Postage Next Day (where all puzzles are available) 6.50

We can’t believe this is the last Newsletter of 2016, what a year! We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and extend our thanks to you all for your continued support.

In order to offer a different range of puzzles, this month we are pleased to be able to offer you some new ones from the USA based Pomegranate, so let’s hope you find one or two in your Christmas stockings this year (even if you have to buy them yourself !) If you haven’t tried one of these before, please do give them a try – you will not be disappointed. There will be more next month and we are hoping to have some new Clementoni ones too.

We are also including more best sellers from this year and a few more sale items.

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OFFICIAL PUZZLE CLUB SELECTED JIGSAWS ISSUE135DEC2016Jigs Corner

Puzzle Club Selected Jigsaws

Contact us: The Puzzle Club Ltd, 30 Adelaide Road, Bramhall, Stockport SK7 1LT Telephone: 0161 998 3708 Email: puzzle-club@btconnect.com

www.jigsaw-puzzle-club.co.uk

AA896 Mike Wilks: The Ultimate Alphabet ‘The Letter S’ 1000pc £13

Mike Wilks (British, b. 1947) began his artistic career at age thirteen when he won a scholarship to art school. He ran a successful graphic

design business for five years before selling up and starting to write and illustrate books in 1975. He set out in the 1980s to depict as many words as possible in twenty-six images corresponding to the alphabet. His four-year painting odyssey resulted in a suite of magnificent compilations, all minutely detailed, masterfully rendered, and slightly surreal. Each image contains dozens, if not hundreds, of items all starting with the same letter. It is a mind-blowing and enjoyably engaging task to attempt to identify all the objects. The images in this puzzle were first published in 1986 in the best-selling The Ultimate Alphabet, and now as fantastic Jigsaw puzzles.

Surely you can see the saluki, but can you spot the shuttlecock, the stein, or the sifaka? Mike Wilks writes, “There is a sketch of a squinch, a selection of shells (not all from the sea), a siamang settled on a seat, a sponge to be studied, and sundry stuff suspended from strings. In all, I included 1,234 S’s for you to see.”

We have included the Letter ‘S’ as a starter, and if you enjoy it we can get more of the collection. Please let us know your thoughts.

AA924 Geometric Herb Garden1000pc £13

Rosalind Wise takes inspiration from nature, painting scenes of flower gardens, ponds, and meadows. A native of South Wales, Rosalind studied at Reading University and Goldsmiths College. During the 1970s she taught secondary education in Bristol and London. Then, in 1980 she moved to Gloucestershire and turned more of her time to painting. Her early work focused on small, singular bits of the natural world.

Taking what she had learned from these early works, Rosalind painted The Flower Cycle but was always digging for new subjects and experiences. She began painting fields and gardens in their natural, untouched state, so that, in her words, “they have a chance to display their own character and energy. Painting releases and enhances the experience of looking and actually being there in the moment.”

Geometric Herb Garden was inspired by the knot garden at the Garden Museum, in London. The knot is a seventeenth-century-style garden designed by the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury and planted in honour of John Tradescant the Elder and the Younger, gardeners to King Charles I. The garden is bursting with herbs, creating a tapestry of colour, texture, and pattern that highlights the geometry of the knot.

AA931 Sri Yantra Intimacy 1000pc £13

A fourth-generation artist, Paul Heussenstamm (American, b. 1949) creates sacred art and is a practitioner of the Eastern tradition of transmission, in which a painting travels through the artist. He believes that soul patterns are manifested in mandalas, which have played a role in Eastern spiritual development for centuries. A Sri Yantra is a type of mandala with geometric patterns

that form a symbolic representation of the creative forces of the universe. Through meditation, these shapes are believed to have a balancing and calming effect on a restless mind. Paul leads mandala-painting workshops so that others may discover their spiritual path through art.

AA936 Where Time Beckons the Wicked 1000pc £13

Dan May’s surreal paintings are filled with mystery and emotion, inviting viewers to create their own narratives. The dreamlike quality of his artwork brings a child’s imagination, and hope, into play in an exploration of the relationship between humans and nature.

AA879 Francesca da Rimini500pc £9

As Francesca reads to her young lover, Paolo, there is a hint of tragedy: the hand of her husband, the elderly and deformed Gianciotto of Rimini, creeps into the left of the frame. Aficionados of Dante’s Inferno will know that Gianciotto, Paolo’s brother, assassinated the lovers in such a scene. Painted in 1837 by artist William Dyce (Scottish, 1806–1864), the image originally included Gianciotto in full, but when the canvas was trimmed in 1882 to remove damage, only his disembodied hand remained.

New from Pomegranate

Little Mermaid by CeacoCS3327 1000pc £12.00

Austrian Mountain House by ClementoniC39297 1000pc £12.00

Autumn Reflections - Emma Hawarth (25 x 25”)

AA954 1000pc £13.00

AA575 Tower of

Babel: A Medieval

Masterpiece (20 x 29”)

1000pc £13.00

AA939 Water Hole Diorama,

American Museum of Natural

History (27 x 20”)

1000pc £13.00

WINNING WAYSISSUE 133

Congratulations to Clare Billings from West Sussex whose name was drawn from all the correct entries.

Your winning puzzle is on its way to you.

ISSUE 135A Christmas themed Wordsearch – not too taxing, let us know

which word is missing from the grid.Please send your entries by 31st December 2016, and remember

to let us know your choice of puzzle up to 1000 pieces.

ANGELCHRISTMAS FESTIVESNOWMANBAUBLESTINSELGARLANDSTOCKINGFAIRYLIGHTSTURKEYCRACKERSPRESENTJIGSAWTREESANTA

C H T Q A T N E S E R PR H U S T B W G D N S TA L R R N W O N E N T FC N K I A Y A S A A H GK U E A S L R T M M G HE P Y R R T C W S W I LR R I A I R M C W O L HS E G N U E Y A O N Y PE S S P S E S T S S R DR E R L E G N A N N I AL K X M I S E L B U A BS A N J E V I T S E F J

JK044 Dorothy (18 x 24”)300XL pc £8.00

JK039 Beyond the Garden Gate (24 x 18”)

300XL pc £8.00

Some of our members struggle with the small standard pieces of most puzzles and are often asking for a greater selection of larger piece puzzles. We are pleased that the Pomegranate range includes a range of different size puzzles and pieces. Please check the sizes shown alongside the images below to find ones that suit you.

Janelle Dimmett takes a fresh look at a familiar character from The Wizard of Oz in this charming rural scene. And what’s a farm without a kitty cat?

Through the eyes of a curious little boy, artist Mike Wilks invites the viewer into Granny’s Garden, an enchanting haven of spider webs and squirrels, lizards and lilies, dragonflies and… dinosaurs? Expect the unexpected, for this is no ordinary backyard. A beautifully, richly coloured and detailed illustration of flora and fauna.

Puzzles with Larger Pieces

AA732 Dance at Bougival - Auguste Renoir1000pc £13.00

R19553 Disney - All Aboard for Christmas

1000pc £13.00

G6191 The Toy Shop1000pc £13.00

AA784 Oarsmen at Chatou - Auguste Renoir

500pc £8.00

R14656 Christmas Cuties500pc £9.00

Previous Best Sellers

Previous Best Sellers at reduced price

FJ17311 JvH - City Ice Tour2000pc £18.00

PLG9636 Cat Symphony (Special Triangular box)

2000pc £22.00

PLG9577 Apocalypse2000pc £22.00

R17070 / R17823 Animals at the Water Hole

3000 / 18000pc £20.00 / £120.00

Higher Piece Counts (all at reduced prices)

Jig’s CornerI would also like to say Happy Christmas to all my lovely jigsaw fans. We really appreciate all your comments and ideas regarding our club so please keep those letters coming in.

Thank you to everyone who got in touch to let us know that we had the wrong date on the competition entry. Of course we knew that there were only 30 days in November…..Whoops!

I’m off to write my Christmas list now and I know Pomegranate’s New Alphabet Puzzle by Mike Wilks will be top of my list – I love nothing more than a good challenging puzzle on these cold winter nights, especially when I can then spend more time after completing the puzzle trying to find all the special items.

Happy Christmas puzzling!

Jig

AA964 Mandala Fruit Tree -

Paul Heussenstamm (24 x 18”) 500pc £8.00

AA833 Flowers and Envelopes -

Patti Lee Becker (18 x 24)500pc £8.00

G615 Dayton’s Garage1000pc £10.00

G6128 RHS - Best in Show1000pc £10.00

G6168 The Airshow1000pc £10.00

FJ1900 JvH World Championship Football 3 X 1000pc £20.00

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