Woodland Fairy

My next puzzle... It's going to be a beautiful but rather difficult looking puzzle called "Woodland Fairy" it's a sunsout puzzle, which I'm mainly doing being I have my eye on the Noah's ark, and nativity puzzles by artist Tom Dubois, but they're by sunsout, and I've only done their novelty shaped puzzles up to this point...

Here are the puzzles mentioned

 The noahs ark puzzle comes in a single 6,000 piece version, and the invitation puzzle comes in a 3,000 piece version, I'm trying to decide if I'd like the brand enough to work a full 6,000 pieces, or if I'd prefer to just grab the collections

My moms a nativity scene collector (among many MANY other things) so this would be a nice buy

anyways, I thought I'd share my new difficult process that I decided to start after the sorting issues I had with double retrospect section A (I'm referring to the fact that I had to resort a good portion of the puzzle because I didn't think about the pieces with multiple colors)

anyways, to start out, I sorted out the edge pieces, I didn't want to sort the entire thing yet, but I wanted to start...

And finally I made up a hierarchy of sorting =)

Here's how it works, the items at the very top of the list have priority to anything under them, so if I run into a piece that has both part of a small fairy, AND a green plant, i'd sort the piece into the fairy pile, if I found a piece with both part of the large fairys wing AND the blue shawl, i'd sort it into the fairy wing pile...

It really doesn't matter what order these come in, as long as there's a hierarchy... I don't want to start building the wings and parts of the wings are in the blue shawl pile, likewise I don't want half the blue shawl in the fairies body pile

and it's probibly pretty obvious, but I'd better say it anyways, once I finish sorting I'll work on the sections in list order, so first I'll do the fairies, then the unicorn, the fox, the butterflies, etc.

I hope that all makes sense, I think it'll go a LONG way to making this a more organized and quicker puzzle to complete.