O OH! Late Birthday gift and prioritising.

Hi!

Pim ordered my Birthday gift in Januari, but it was out of stock and only came in the mail today!

It's a 5000 pieces puzzle of a color band.

AND I'm totally making this one now.
I plan to glue and hang it in my craft room, so I don't want to wait another 6 years before starting it!

Since Pim will be traveling a lot in June, I have some extra time and want to have it done by July 13th. After that Alexis has Summer vacation and we will be away.
I'll keep you posted here!

Didn't make it.

So,  ..I didn't quite finish before our guests arrived, but I was done by April 16th.
Not bad!

My goal to ignore the double pieces lasted a bit, but in the end I couldn't resist and ended up with a whole bunch of half put together pieces.

And when I was done I still had quite a bit of pieces left over. I decided to keep them until the guest room is empty and I can lay down the whole puzzle again.
For now this is how the boards are stored

And the left over pieces

A slightly different approach.

So far, it's not going fast, but that's nothing new.
With so many pieces it takes time to look for just the right one.
And this time I'm trying to avoid to pull out to much of the "doubles", those are pieces with exactly the same shape.
With the previous colors I would pull out any doubles that I came across, but that means I get a lot of parts of images and it's not always obvious to what Image they belong. In the end a lot of times it turns out to be pieces of different images put together in such a way that they fit and make sense, but they need to be taken apart anyway.

By doing it this way I hope to avoid the confusing part somewhere halfway through all the blue pieces when I try to put down those "double" piece and it turns out I've put them together wrong.
We'll see how it goes.

And here we go again!

"I'm blueDa ba dee da-be-diDa ba dee da-be-dai"

That's all I'm going to see the next couple of weeks :)

So of course I started with sorting all the pieces as usual and I found a nice place to store more cardboard plates that are easy accessible

The goal is to be done before our visitors arrive on April 4th. Not sure it's going to work, But I can try.