Most of the stairs are complete, it’s starting to look like the picture! I’m having a difficult time deciding whether or not I’m going to work on the pink walls and floors next, or if I should do the banisters and gargoyles.

There are pros and cons for each and I keep changing my mind. I guess you’ll find out if you check on tomorrow’s progress. 🙂

Sorry the update is so short today, I’m hurting and really need to go lie down for the rest of the night. Have a great weekend!

Pretty good progress today. The Beast is almost complete, Cogsworth and Lumiere are connected to the edge, and Mrs. Potts is all done!

I’m officially past the halfway point for this section. Things are moving a little more slowly than usual for me, but it isn’t a race and I’ll get done when I’m done. 😉

Tomorrow I’ll work on the stairs and whatever else catches my eye. I make plans sometimes and then completely throw them out the window because, uh, just because I feel like it. I find it hard to concentrate at times, and sometimes it’s just easier to put in a piece here or there and let the pieces take me where they want me to go. I know that doesn’t make much sense, but it’s the best I can do describing how it goes from time to time.

Look at Belle’s pretty dress! Luckily (sarcasm) I was up before 4 am and had plenty of time to work on it before I had to leave at 9. 😐

I really am having a great time with this section. I specifically saved Beauty and the Beast and Bambi for last because they looked to me like they’d be the most fun. I was worried that I might get sick of the puzzle after a few sections and wanted to give myself incentive to keep at it, because I saved the best for last. I didn’t need to worry, have never been sick of the puzzle at all; even when I was working on the more difficult sections. So as my reward I have the best sections for last, way to go me!

Belle’s dress wasn’t as difficult as I thought it might be, I had flashbacks of working on Cinderella’s dress for 3 days. 😕 Turns out after putting together almost 35,000 pieces of this puzzle I’ve sorta gotten used to what piece might be next, or what piece shape usually looks like this, etc. So it didn’t seem that difficult and didn’t take nearly as long as I thought.

There’s a bit more yellow to go in the Beast’s vest and Lumiere’s flames. Then I may work on the pale pieces around the edge or perhaps the Beast’s pants. If I can’t sleep again I may be working on both, and maybe more!

The blue went very quickly today, after the window I worked on the Beast’s jacket and the curtains in the background. It looks awesome, and both the Beast and Belle are connected! I love that. 🙂 I was also able to fill in all of the holes in the twinklies at the top, so it looks even better. I got much more done than I planned to today, the blue pieces seemed to go quite fast!

Tomorrow I plan on starting with the yellow pieces; Belle’s dress, the trim on the Beast’s jacket and his vest. I have no idea how much I’ll get done or if it will go quickly like the blue. I have to be gone half the day tomorrow so what I get done in the morning will have to do. When I get home after being out for several hours I will be in no shape to sit and puzzle. 😦  The good new there is that I will be able to lay in bed and work on the 1000 piece puzzle I’m assembling while I rest. There’s always a silver lining.

We have a border! I couldn’t sleep last night, so I was up VERY early this morning and was able to get lots of quiet time working on the puzzle.

I keep changing my mind about where to go from here. I could start with Belle’s dress and the rest of the yellow, or I could start with the window that’s behind her. I’m not sure which one I’ll pick in the morning, it all depends on how I’m feeling and how early I get up. Hopefully it won’t be 1:45 am again 😮  The window behind them might be the place to start, since there is much less of that than there is yellow. It might be better to start smaller and then move up to all the yellow pieces. Hmm.

It looks great now with the edges on, I can’t wait to see how it starts coming together with all the bright colors!