WIP progress and RIP stash diet

Snowflower Diaries 2016 free SAL "Joyful World" - I picked it back up last month and finished July.

I changed the border color from GAST Apple Cider to GAST Wood Smoke, and added the bent leg to the right-most flamingo. 

Here's the whole thing so far, in all its rumpled glory:

Also, I'm giving up on Stitch from Stash. I'm having trouble with the 'fake money' element - the fact that I add money to my budget for finishes, but on one hand I don't always feel like the amount aligns with the effort I put in, and on the other (more significant) hand, it's not real money so it feels meaningless.

So I decided to give up on that, and just track finishes, and keep my pattern library at top of mind so that I'm not tempted to buy things when I already have something to scratch the itch.

Of course, I decided that, and then there was a sale this past weekend at my local-est needle shop (2 hours away) and I went and bought a bunch of stuff. Derp.

I got the threads I went for (including some hard-to-find Wisper thread that I haven't been able to find online, and a couple of discontinued Thread Gatherer threads, all of which are called for in old patterns in my stash.

And then...I bought a bunch of patterns and kits. Everything was either 20% or 50% off, I couldn't pass it up. 😖

New stash: