Saturday 02-04-17

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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!

Friday 02-03-17

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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!

Thursday 02-02-17

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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!

Saturday 01-28-17 70% Done!

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28,224 pieces assembled – 12,096 to go!

70% complete! Woooooo hooooooo!! This was the section I was dreading the most and it’s all done! Of course I’m posting this before it’s been taken off the board and put away for safekeeping. Yikes. Think good thoughts for the transfer on Monday!

Having said that I was dreading this section the most, I must admit that it wasn’t as difficult as I had assumed it would be. To be perfectly honest, Peter Pan was more difficult for me. It had many more dark pieces with nothing else on them to show where they would go. In Fantasia almost every piece has something else on it to help with placement – foam, water spray, bubbles, etc. It wasn’t nearly as difficult as I believed, I’m just no judge of these things apparently. It only took 15 days to complete, not too shabby!

Ravensburger got the replacement section to me with perfect timing, right when I finished the The Little Mermaid! When I started sorting the Fantasia section that came in the box back in October, I found a mangled piece with part of the front (picture) missing. Just one piece, and to be honest in a 40,000 piece puzzle who really would have seen it? I would have! Ravensburger was great about sending me a replacement section, although I did have to wait until it was actually available for sale in the United States. (I bought the puzzle last September from Germany, and it wasn’t technically available for sale in the US until after the first of the year). So it arrived precisely when needed – Thanks again Ravensburger! That’s why you’re my favorite puzzle company. 🙂

So now there are only 3 sections left to complete, and the next one up is The Lion King. Doesn’t it look like fun?

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In this image the blue around the edges seems almost purple, that’s not the actual color. Otherwise, it looks great!  I’m looking forward to the 2 sides with filmstrip, and only 2 sides with twinklies. I’m hoping the animals aren’t too difficult to distinguish from one another and are fun to assemble as well.

I’m excited to get going on it, but it won’t be until Tuesday at the earliest. I plan on having it sorted by Monday evening though, so I will be ready as soon as Fantasia comes off the board!

Friday 01-27-17

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Almost there – tomorrow’s the day!

Only 190 pieces left – tomorrow is definitely the last day for this section! Although, unless hubby brought some more giant pieces of cardboard home from work it’s going to have to stay on the board all weekend until we have a piece of cardboard to cover it with and tape it up. That’s ok though, I can sort the pieces of the next section this weekend. If he brings some cardboard Monday after work we can take it off the board that night, then I can start The Lion King on Tuesday. I guess that will give me lots of time to work on a smaller puzzle this weekend, mom found an awesome 500+ piece puzzle this week at the thrift store!

It’s going quite well and very quickly, there aren’t many pieces to look through to find what I need and it gets more fun with each piece I find! My mom better get her butt over here and put a piece in tomorrow or she will be out of luck. 😮

I really have enjoyed this section even though it was the one I was dreading the most. And now tomorrow it’ll be in the books! I’m so excited!! 🙂