Helene's persistence was key in making Puzzletique grow from an idea that her father had when he saw a feature on puzzles on CBC's Venture program. My father was great for coming up and starting projects and never finishing them. Now we get people from all over the world coming in and are really happy when we have a puzzle that no other store stocks. Puzzletique's web site has a suggestion and comments button that allows customers to request whatever puzzle they're interested in and then receive an e-mail of a scanned picture of the puzzle. Children really love puzzles that have bright colors.
Dragons are really popular right now.
Adults tend to go for the more classical puzzles like famous buildings and paintings. We're really proud of the amount of variety and selection. Helene is currently working 16 hour days, as she completes her Master's in Business Adminstration at the University of Manitoba, cramming a two and a half year program into one. This program is so demanding. Some students are near tears half the time.