Looking good, right? Dark blue is done and twinklies are begun!

The dark blue went relatively quickly today, and it’s always fun seeing the missing pieces being filled in and a whole section coming together. Everything assembled on the board is just over 1100 pieces, but it sure doesn’t look like that many in photos. In person it’s huge and looks like the giant puzzle that it is, but in photographs it just looks like a regular sized puzzle and it is difficult to see the scale. I keep racking my brain to figure out something to add to the board to show the scale, but it never really looks right in the pictures. I could lay diagonally across the board with my head in one corner and my feet towards the other and there would still be over 11 inches of extra room! It’s a big board!

More work on the twinklies tomorrow. Nothing exciting, just trying to keep on making progress every day. I’m excited to start working on the Mufasa in the sky, I think it’s gonna be gorgeous! I have to be patient and wait till I’ve got the twinklies done, but I’m really looking forward to it. Perhaps it’ll make the work on the edges go faster. 😉

Finally, some real progress! Hooray!

Every piece I pulled out for the filmstrip is into place, and it seems huge! I mean, this isn’t my first rodeo, but for some reason having the filmstrip in place makes this section seem so much bigger. I have no idea why, it makes no sense whatsoever. I have assembled every single section on this board, so for it to seem like a different size is ridiculous. Perhaps my not sleeping this week is catching up with me and I’m hallucinating slightly. I have no other explanation. (On the plus side though, at 1 am when I couldn’t sleep I was getting a head start on the filmstrip for today) 🙂

That said, I’m enjoying this section already and am looking forward to getting back into the groove of being able to work on it every day. I’m struggling right now with being physically able to work on it, but I’m doing my best to keep a good attitude and just put in a few pieces whenever I feel I can. Hakuna Matata 😉

Tomorrow will be the dark blue/edges, and depending on how that goes I may be able to get started on the twinklies on the remaining two sides. It finally feels like I’ve actually gotten started on The Lion King, and I’m raring to go!

Not the best picture, I know. Sorry. Still having difficulty working on the puzzle, but I was able to start the filmstrip this morning. There’s plenty more left to do, but at least I made progress, right?

It was so nice to get back to puzzling, even though I only had a limited amount of time to work on it both yesterday and today. It’s been a while since I worked on a corner section, I forgot how much filmstrip there is on a corner! That’s a plus for me though, because I think the filmstrip is the most fun part. 🙂 Each little “cell” can have anywhere between 9-18 pieces, depending on placement and if it’s folded or not. The majority of cells have approximately 12 pieces, and it’s like putting together a little mini puzzle within the puzzle. I love that!

I hope to be feeling well enough to make more progress tomorrow and have an amazing picture to show for it. Fingers crossed!

The Lion King has begun! 🙂

I wasn’t able to get much done today. I had a “procedure” earlier in the week that I’ve been trying to recover from, and I’m just not up to snuff. Instead of getting started on Tuesday, had to wait until today and even then I wasn’t able to sit or stand long enough to do much of anything. Hopefully I’ll be feeling better soon and able to really get going.

Tomorrow I would like to get started on the filmstrip, there’s a lot of it to do! Two whole sides instead of just one. It’s going to be fun though, and it’ll probably take me a few days to complete. I’m happy to get going on it though, I’ve barely been puzzling all week and I’ve been missing it!