Puzzle Mansion: Guinness Book of Records holder

 

Our second day in Tagaytay started with our Journey at the Puzzle Mansion.  The Puzzle Mansion is a Guinness World Record holder, it is the largest collection of jigsaw puzzles and it was achieved by Georgina Gil-Lacuna.  According to the people at the mansion, Madam Gina started to make puzzles some 28 years ago and it's really just a hobby.

Madam Gina and her family started from small beginnings and made their way up in the garments industry because of their perseverance and patience.  Looking at it now, it all paved the way to success and it's just simply inspiring.

I appreciate art in a form of drawings that has figures, people and things.   The first puzzle that I saw from this wide range collection was a Coca Cola puzzle and it was really like looking at a poster but when you take a closer look, it was indeed a puzzle!

 

 

What made each puzzle interesting was that each puzzle was tagged and it mentioned how many pieces were there in the puzzle and how long it took Madam Gina to complete one.  It was just mind blowing  -- starting a puzzle is something exciting to do but when you are at the middle part, where all the puzzle pieces have the same color, for me it's like dragging and I want to stop.

This puzzle is MONALISA, we all know that it was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci.
This puzzle has 1,500 pieces and it was completed within 14 hours.

Amazing right! :)

Now on to one of the next painting este puzzle in this mansion.
It's called RETABLO DE SANTA COLUMBA by R. Van Den Weyden.
It has 18,000 pieces and it was completed within 1095 hours! Fascinating right!

It's really like a painting and I was just blown away with the patience given in completing this puzzle.

Madam Gina did not just rest for an ordinary puzzle, she made a lot more puzzle variety ranging from the very basic one.

 

 
There is a 3D puzzle, round, pyramid, crystal, can, plastic and a lot more.

 

It was just fascinating, that something that started as a hobby will turn out to be part of the Guinness World Book of Records and I am very proud to be a Filipino.

Watch this video to learn more about the story of Madam Gina and how she came about this wonderful hobby.
 

This is the video that was done by Sweets.. to give all of you a view of how it looked like :)
 

 

For me, puzzles are very symbolic when it comes to defining our lives.

Our entire journey is like a whole puzzle, each situation, each part of our lives are the bits and pieces of our entire being.

There will be times where we cannot match things up, but if we become patient and understand how situations relate to each other, we will see the big picture and realize that every situation matter. ^_^

Xoxo