So very close! I’m hoping I’ll feel well enough to finish it tomorrow, but there are no guarantees. It looks awesome and I’m super proud of it, and am hopeful I’ll be feeling better or just well enough to sit/stand tomorrow and wrap this one up!

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

Giraffes! Aren’t they amazing looking? It’s all coming together and looking great. I’ll be able to work on it tomorrow morning, but it may be slow going for a couple of days as I’m having another procedure and may not be up to much puzzling for a few days.

Less than 500 pieces to go now, it’s getting exciting! Almost 80% percent done, and there are only 2 more sections left to go. I’m enjoying assembling all the animals, but I am unable to string words together to articulate why. My brain cells are on strike or something and I feel unbelievably stupid at the moment. I like puzzles. 🙂

I do have a couple of posts written up and ready to publish on additional puzzles, just so there will be something posted every day even if I’m not able to work on The Lion King. WordPress lets you set up a time and date to publish posts, how cool is that?? I can get stuff ready beforehand and post when I’m not even upright or awake!

 

It doesn’t feel like I got much accomplished today, spent a lot of time in bed resting and napping. But looking at yesterday’s picture makes me feel a little better, I got pretty much the lower right side all filled in!

It feels at the moment like it’s crawling along at a snail’s pace, but I’m trying to remember that every piece I fit into the puzzle is progress. There are less than 1000 pieces to go, and although I was hoping to have it finished by tomorrow evening, that is definitely NOT going to happen. It’ll be done when it gets done, and I’ll be happy whenever that is. 🙂

Looking better and better every day. 🙂 I’m too worn out today and my brain isn’t working properly, so the picture is gonna have to be worth 1000 words. Picture, start talking!

All the main characters are finally done! Mufasa, Simba, Nala, Timon, Pumbaa, Rafiki and Zazu are finished. Took me forever to find Rafiki’s arms but I got it done. 😉

All that’s left are the scores of animals across the bottom. (I wanted to use the word “menagerie” instead of scores but I looked it up just to be sure and it is a collection of captive animals, and that definitely doesn’t apply) Anyway, I’m planning on working on the large elephant on the right side first. It’s mainly just a great big elephant ear with a little bit of the trunk and tusk showing, but it’s where I’m working next. You can see the top of the ear against the back of Pride Rock.

After that it may just be jumping from one animal to another, or I may work on the giraffes since I have some of those pieces separated out. As usual, I’m not sure. According to my count there are about 1400 pieces left in this section. Amazing! The giant empty space in the picture seems like there should be way more pieces remaining to me.

Hopefully it won’t be too much longer and I can get this baby done!