First pieces connected!

After visitors and 3 weeks vacation at the camping site in Germany today I thought it was time to figure out if I could start making this puzzle.

So I took the first box with pieces.
That's the one containing all the pieces that have some degree of pink on them. They are divided in 2 subsections:

1. plain pink 
2. pink - black and pink - black - color

Every piece that has 2 real colours (I mean no black/white) have black on them too, since all coloured shapes have a black outline.

When I saw all those pieces with black I thought "This is never going to work, I need to sort them even further".
So I decided to sort the pink - black - color pieces by color again.
Now I have  8 smaller boxes with pieces that are:

1. completely pink (I already sorted those the first time)
2. pink - black
3. pink - black - white
4. pink - black - orange
5. pink - black - green
6. pink - black - yellow
7. pink - black - blue
8. pink - black - red

Here is how it looks like: 

Then I took the box with pink - black - orange and had a quick look. There is a small variation in orange color. Some of the pieces are lighter than others, so I took some out and after a couple of minutes I had this: 

Another couple of minutes later I had to clean up and this was my end result of the first day trying to put pieces together:

5 pieces down, 32.251 to go!  (kind of ;)

The problem is going to be that the pieces left and right of those 3 pieces that I put together will not have orange on them, but only pink and black and that is a bigger pile of pieces to go through. That is why I think this puzzle will take a long time to make. I don't have the space to put out all the pink pieces at once. 

For now I'm happy that I made something ...