When there's nothing left but backstitching

I love to cross stitch but I hate to backstitch. There's just something tedious about backstitching that I've never liked. The effect of backstitching though can make a project amazing. Unfortunately I usually leave the backstitching until last and then I don't want to work on the project any more.

I've "finished" two projects recently where all the cross stitching is done, but I still have backstitching to do. Those projects are:

A Star is Born:


and

Adobe House:


It's pretty obvious in the first one that the backstitching is necessary if I want the words to show up at least. In the second one I could probably leave it like it is but the backstitching would make it so much better.

Now these projects could just sit around and never get completed but I'm hoping to make a goal to work on them during UFO week. It's the first week of the month were you try to work on Un-Finished Object. You know, those projects you put aside and never think you'll finish. I think I can handle backstitching for one week of the month. And it would be nice to really finish a project beyond the backstitch. Stay tuned.

A new start

This is my next project I started. Can you guess what it is?