About us
A family puzzle workshop on Vashon Island
We are a family of four plus a dog named Lucky who love living on our beautiful island home of Vashon. We enjoy spending family time outdoors: hiking, swimming and camping. When the rainy season hits we love to ski and puzzle! We decided to try our hand making wooden jigsaw puzzles with art inspired by our gorgeous natural surroundings.
Dad Giles is the puzzle crafter who designed the whimsical puzzle shapes and learned how to laser cut the product. Our older daughter Sailor created the art for our first jigsaw puzzle, in the shape of and full of love for Vashon Island. Mom Susan painted watercolors of local seashells and water sights for our collection of holiday ornaments. Piper, our youngest daughter, has enjoyed being behind the scenes testing puzzle prototypes and inspiring us to strive for the highest environmental ethic standards. She encouraged us to use cloth bags for our puzzle packaging in lieu of plastic.
We decided to call ourselves Heart House Puzzles because we are starting by making all our products in our home on Vashon, using our kitchen and garage as headquarters. We are using wood, paper, paints, pencils and a lot of LOVE! We plan to continue to make fun puzzles and ornaments that use beautiful handmade art images and creative shapes that we hope you will delight in as much as we have loved making them!
The story of our product
We are creating laser cut jigsaw puzzles and ornaments made from plywood sheets with original art images. The design of the puzzle shapes are called “whimsical” because they are a mix of playful shapes inspired by the natural surroundings and activities featured in the artwork. We are making all of the products from our home on Vashon.
