I have more pictures, but rather than link them all, I'll post a link to the album, and just start this post with where I'm up to currently..
Some fun pictures...
These flowers were my first real run in with super intense confetti.. At times there were 30 - 40 colors within a single 10x10 grid.
Also, they're a great example of how when you're stitching individual colors may look out of place, since enlarged this big you can see each and every single color, but once you look at the whole picture (image above) the individual colors vanish and the whole emerges into something that just works! 
My super messy parking madness...
I always wonder when I see pictures of others WIPS and even though they obviously park, they never have any thread hanging off the front of their work. Are they finishing all the parked threads before photographing? Not me! I start and finish my piece from the front as well, so I always have loads of thread all over the place. No harm, no foul.. Just use the tip of the needle to separate out the thread I am going to use next, and let the rest dangle.. when I reach threads that have been started/ended on the front, I just clip them and keep going. I figure it's a WIP and it's supposed to look like a disaster while I work!
Also - probably noticable - I don't stick strictly to 10x10 grids while stitching. Instead I follow the shape of what I'm working on so that I have similar colors while parking.. so I did each of those pink and white stripes as one section before moving to the next one. It just made more sense to me since I am less likely to end up with having just 1 stitch remaining of a color in the next column over if I were to strictly follow a 10 stitch wide column. Another perk is that because the edge of my stitching isn't a sharp vertical, I don't have an issue with visible vertical lines in my work as I stitch column after column. Though sometimes it can make me batty trying to figure out which direction to go in next. When that happens I just start working in a grid for a while and soon enough I end up starting to follow the shape of objects in the image again.
New pic - 7/20/13
New Pic - 9/5/13
New Pic 9/8/13
New Pic: 9/18/13
New Pic: 9/26/13
New Pic: 10/6/13
New Pic: 5/28/14
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