Sleeping Beauty gets a Blue Ribbon

....or at least the bottom of her skirt does.  

I'm making good progress up the left border this week, and shoudl be moving on to the urn today or tomorrow.  

It looks like the border SHOULD line up correctly with the top border...yay!   I'm always a little nervous about that.   Still, I'm not going to be daring and start working my way down instead of up - I suspect that would be courting disaster LOL

I'm so excited to be this close to finishing her....it's been a long, long journey to get here.

And since I just keep showing "teaser" partial pictures, here's a full picture of where she's at now: 

If I had to guess, I'd say I could be beading in maybe two weeks.   Yay!   After I finish the top right hand corner (hopefully maybe this weekend?), I need to go back and finish her hair and face, fill in a bunch of white in the draping that the left, and add a couple more sprays of roses.  Although there's extensive beading, it's fairly straight forward with only three colors of beads.

Let the countdown begin!