WIP - Gateside Greeting

EDIT - My poll ended up with a tie, so I asked my husband and a few of my coworkers.  This was the winner, as it has been the longest in WIP mode and has a bigger difficulty factor, so I figure not only will I get it done, but it will be a "fair fight"(?).

I'm sure I'll get to the cat one eventually. 

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..but I'm undecided as to which project I should try and finish.

This is choice number two: Gateside Greeting by Paula Vaughan.  I believe I started this project about 16 years ago.  Sadly, it's always intimidated me with its vast amount of colors and details, so an easy project to keep putting off every time I want/need to work on something else.  I'm a bit further on this one, but progress, no matter how much time I put into it, is always slow.  Another good one for me to finish this year, but not certain if I'm too far ahead to use this for the contest.  What do you think?