Wednesday 03-08-17 90% Done!

On March 8, 2017May 19, 2023 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn Jigsaw Puzzles, World's Largest Puzzle Progress10 Comments

I don’t know how it happened so quickly, but this entire 40,320 piece puzzle is 90% finished! There is only one section left to assemble, wow!

Beauty and the Beast was as much fun as I thought it was going to be, and I’m glad I saved it till the end. Belle was so much fun to assemble, and so was the Beast. The colors are gorgeous and I loved assembling each of the smaller characters as well. I usually know all the names but I looked up the feather duster’s name because I couldn’t remember it. Babette! It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie, so I don’t feel too bad that I couldn’t remember her name. I’m sure she forgives me. 😉

I enjoyed the whole puzzle, and I’m sad it’s done already. I was torn between wanting to work on it as much as possible, and wanting it to last. In the end it took about at much time as the rest of the sections, 15 days.

So now there’s only one left. Bambi. I want to just go for it and work on it as much as possible! Will I? I’m not even sure myself.

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Bambi, Thumper and Flower – look how cute they all are! I love this image, and think it’s gonna be a ton of fun to do. The carpet of flowers on the ground, the pink flowers in the trees and each of the characters are going to be fun and challenging and I’m super excited to get going.

By the way, did you know that each section has a hidden Mickey Mouse symbol? It’s easy to spot in some of them, in others you really have to search for it. You can find the one in Beauty and the Beast pretty easily, but it’s not as easy to see in this picture of Bambi. Peter Pan was the hardest to find for me, did you spot them all?

Of course it’ll be a few days before I get started (as usual) – gotta get this section off the board and sort Bambi, but I’m not in a huge hurry for that either. I’ll probably stall like last time and work a bunch of other puzzles for a few days. At least this time I’ll be conscious of the fact that I’m stalling. 🙂 Onward to Bambi!!!

Tuesday 03-07-17

On March 7, 2017May 19, 2023 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

Only around 200 pieces left to go by my count, so it will definitely be done tomorrow! OMG!

The banister is all done and it looks gorgeous if you ask me. All that is left is a small bit of one of the candelabras and the wall. It feels like I just started this section, how can it have been 2 weeks already?

I can’t believe it’s almost done, I’m a little bit sad. I guess I have to keep reminding myself that there are still hundreds of puzzles to be done between my house and mom’s. She keeps going to the thrift stores several times a week and we keep accumulating more and more puzzles. Sometimes I think 😮 – but then I say 😎

Monday 03-06-17

On March 6, 2017May 19, 2023 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

Two more days oughta do it, I’m almost there!

This is always the best part of the puzzle for me, the number of pieces is dwindling and each piece is easier and easier to find. It makes you feel like you are AWESOME at puzzles, look how quickly I found that piece! Or maybe that’s just me, whatever. 😉

I’m off to bed to rest for the remainder of the day, I’ll be back puzzling again tomorrow.

Sunday 03-05-17

On March 5, 2017May 19, 2023 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

Looking good! I decided to just work up the right side, and it went well. I was only able to work a few minutes at a time today, but I got a bit done and it should only be 2 or 3 more days now before it’s done!

I have to say the scroll work on the banister has been the toughest part of this section so far, but it’s still all fun. 🙂 I’m happy that I decided to save the fun ones for last. Even though I still would be plugging away regardless of which section I was doing, I’m glad I decided to leave the easier/brighter/fun ones till the end. It’s like a little present I am giving myself for getting this far. I can’t believe I’m so close to finishing the entire puzzle, let alone this section. What am I going to do with this thing? Ack!

Anyway, tomorrow I hope to finish the right side of the puzzle, and depending on how I’m feeling perhaps I’ll get started on filling in the left side. Or maybe I should slow down and make it last a little longer. Hmm.

Saturday 03-04-17

On March 4, 2017May 19, 2023 By Stacey at myjigsawjournalIn World's Largest Puzzle ProgressLeave a comment

Not too shabby! One gargoyle done, completed a lot more of the stairs, and filled in some holes where I could. Still have plenty of banister left to go on both sides and a whole other gargoyle.

Just over 1000 pieces left now, so it should be speeding up soon – I hope, I hope! There’s still lots of pink left to go for the floor and walls, but it shouldn’t be too difficult. I plan to get all remaining pieces laid out on trays so I’ll be able to find any piece I’m looking for. That may slow me down a bit at first, but it’ll be worth it. 🙂

If I get everything laid out on trays I may start tomorrow filling in the rest of the right side which will help immensely when I start on the left – I’ll always know what piece shape I’m looking for! Or I may try to at least get the other gargoyle assembled first. As usual it will depend on how my “interesting” brain is functioning at the time. Who knows? I certainly don’t!