First Finish of 2014!

Hello Everyone!  I am excited to report that I had my first finish of 2014 rather early this year!  I finished this Dimensions Kit "See No Evil" on January 7th!

 

Please excuse the poor image quality since this was taken on the camera on my phone.

 

  

Also I don't have the before pic since our computer has been packed away inside a large crate where it will accompany us at our next exotic location later this year. 

 

But I believe I started this kit for a good friend's birthday either in 2005 or 2006?  It is such a small kit measuring 7" wide x 5" tall.  I had left it with some of the blue monkey's backstitching finished, the green monkey needing his vest completed and it was missing about 6 leaves and quite a bit of backstitching that needed to be completed. 

 

This was another project that I couldn't believe I left so close to final completion!  Now the details are a bit fuzzy with everything that has happened since they packed up our apartment in Oslo, we flew to DC for a week and then I finally flew back home to Michigan, but I think I worked on this starting January 4th - 7th until it was finished! 

 

 I was planning on posting this as my January YOTA with a completion but I had way too much going on on the first Saturday in January.  This year I am hoping to blast through as many WIPs as I can to focus on new stash acquisitions and projects.  Let's see how well I do and how many other finishes I can have in 2014.

 

Happy Stitching!