Jigsaw Puzzles
“Hi Sarah Jane! This world peace puzzle is your hardest so far. Kind of like the real deal of world peace…with sorting, fitting, moving around, holding together, figuring out this from that…” Kathy K.
“From now on I’m only buying your puzzles as gifts. What else does anyone need?” Dr. Michael Fine
“Dear SJ! I put the puzzle together. It was the first thing that made me look away from work, cancer, the festival, other hot spots. I loved working on the puzzle. I found it challenging, very challeging…” K.C., Queens
WHY I MAKE PUZZLES
In 2012, during my first Seekonk, Massachusetts winter, while carless and recovering from physical injury, I fell in love—with jigsaw puzzles! No batteries required and totally silent, this old-fashioned mode of re-creation/creation simultaneously occupied my active fingers and soothed my anxious mind. Some months later, when healed and functioning, I finished a totally surprising new painting called “This Is a Life Worth Living.” This painting actually pleased me, as well as friends and strangers alike. As an experiment, I decided to transform this image into a puzzle…
Thus began a multi-year odyssey. Many puzzle designs later I now offer both custom puzzle commissions and clinical, corporate, and community-building puzzle-driven workshops and events. Learn more here.
In response to global lockdown gaming guru Mike Ferrier and I built two jigsaw puzzle apps with voice chat, Puzlkind and Puzzle Together
To purchase puzzles scroll down to see various designs available.
If you prefer to purchase your puzzle in an ACTUAL STORE you can visit these places…
- Rhode Island Black Pear, Camera Werks, Whimsies, Epilogues, Lore Collection
- Massachusetts Broadside Bookshop, Eureka Puzzles, New Bedford Art Museum
- Minnesota Next Chapter Books, Minnesota Center for Book Arts
- New York Twenty-Sided Store
- Washington Seattle Public Library Bookshop
MAR 1, 2023 UPDATE: see here for live and virtual Puzlkind events
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Diaspora
NEW!!! THEY'RE HERE!!! 500pc 18" x 18" Nov 2020 COVID19 update: Pardon price increase - I have to pay surcharge to obtain puzzles right now. If you're a COVID19 frontline person please let me know and I'll help you out...
Heart in New England
April 2020 COVID19 update: 24pc 4" x 6" puzzles are back in stock... Pardon price increase - I have to pay surcharge to obtain puzzles right now. If you're a COVID19 frontline person please let me know and I'll help you out... I will hold off on ordering 1000pc version for awhile...
How to Write A Poem
Collaborative puzzle with poet Esther Cohen Please contact Esther for acquisition http://esthercohen.com
Pride is Polyglot
Commissioned by Beneficent Church Social Justice and Witness Committee for Providence Pride
Sanctuary
THEY'RE HERE!!! 20" x 28" 1000pc Nov 2020 COVID19 update: Pardon price increase - I have to pay surcharge to obtain puzzles right now. If you're a COVID19 frontline person please let me know and I'll help you out...
Save Us From Ourselves
Spring 2022 Made in collaboration with Dan Ariely for the Center for Advanced Hindsight this puzzle explores cognitive biases and climate resilience. Proceeds to the NRDC, Environmental Voter Project, All We Can Save Project, or World Wildlife Fund
SJL's Map of Prague
THEY'RE HERE!!! 20" x 28" 1000pc May 2020 COVID19 update: Pardon price increase - I have to pay surcharge to obtain puzzles right now. If you're a COVID19 frontline person please let me know and I'll help you out...
This is a Life Worth Living
20" x 28" 1000pc Pardon price increase - I have to pay surcharge to obtain puzzles right now. If you're a COVID19 frontline person please let me know and I'll help you out...
You is Not the Only Answer - red
Collaborative Poem Puzzle made with Esther Cohen
