Finished the little guy’s ears (except for the bubbles), and most of the straw. I’ve sorted the grey pieces by shape and will start tomorrow the long slow process of filling in Dumbo’s skin. He’s starting to look like that cute little elephant that learns how to fly!

Won’t be as much progress tomorrow, cause it’s Friday. But as always I’ll work a little in the morning, and then again in the evening once I get home. But I’m looking forward to spending the day at mom’s to have adult conversation and just hang out together. And my dog will be thrilled to spend time with mom’s little guy running around the yard and barking at strangers (a.k.a. everyone).

Still having a good time, even though some colors/patterns seem tedious occasionally. But when I look at the day’s progress in pictures or even just by piece count, I’m always proud of myself for sticking with it. And there hasn’t been a day yet where I didn’t want to work on the puzzle. If anything, I’m always upset with myself for not being physically able to work on it more.

Hope you’re enjoying my journal, cause I’ve really been enjoying blogging about the puzzle every day, and also about other puzzles I’ve done. It’s quite motivating to have others “watching” to see if I’ve gotten anything accomplished that day. Makes me want to always have something to show at the end of the day. I don’t know how many people are actually reading this other than my mom and daughter, but it doesn’t really matter. I’m having fun with the blog too! 🙂

Lots of good stuff done today. Unbelievably I did the dark blue and edge pieces, even though I usually do that near the end. It was easy and convenient, so there ya go. I finished the pale color in the background above the straw and was able to connect Timothy to it, and even got a large portion of one of Dumbo’s ears finished.

I knew from the picture that Dumbo was a huge part of the image, but seeing the size of just a part of his ear really lets you know just how big he will be. Wow!

This section is different in that I don’t have several different characters to assemble and place approximately where they go. Timothy went first, and the only other character is Dumbo, and he’s HUGE. I don’t normally start at one side and work my way to the other, but it’s looking like that’s mostly how this one is going to go.

Hopefully things keep going as quickly as they have been so far. But the easy stuff is kinda over, so that’s most likely going to slow me down some. Still enjoying myself, and that’s what really matters!

Finally was able to finish sorting and start the actual assembly of the 3rd section, Dumbo. While sorting, it was clear that this puzzle isn’t going to be a cakewalk, although I’m hoping it won’t be as challenging as Cinderella was. The number of grey and pink pieces for Dumbo himself is a bit overwhelming, not to mention the various shades of brown, blue and white. But I’ll get through it like always, and will be extremely proud when it’s finished 🙂

Timothy Q. Mouse is completed already, as his pieces were the easiest to pull out – he’s basically the smallest thing in the puzzle. He is about the size of my hand, so not tiny, but you can see in the picture he is a very small part of the whole image.

I started with the burgundy color in the background behind Dumbo, and as the filmstrip is connected to that I decided to go ahead and do that early in this puzzle. It’s not a corner section so there is only one side that has filmstrip instead of two. Not difficult to work, and actually boosted my piece count for the day so I’m already about 1/8 done! I also put together Dumbo’s eyes and mouth, and the little 4 piece Disney logo. That was where I called it quits for the day.

It doesn’t look overly impressive, but I’m happy with the amount I got done today, especially having had to go out and run errands twice! Hopefully tomorrow will be less hectic and there will be more time to work on the puzzle. Now that I’ve started I’m anxious to make lots of progress!