This piece was my not only my parents gift that Christmas, but its what got me back into crafting after many years of nothing.
I did get it done within that time, and even had enough time that I thought, you know, I could probably do a second one of these for my grandparents, but that's a story for another post.
I was a little annoyed with myself in that, somehow, I managed to get a little purple dot on it. It happened somewhere over the ocean as I was flying to the States. My guess is a drop of water managed to get into my sewing bag, which was out as I was desperately trying to get the version for my grandparents finished and had it all together.
I also wish that I'd gotten to Michaels earlier in the week so that I could get them to mount it properly so that when framed the piece wasn't so dark. But, parents liked it, so it can be considered a success.