Yes! I actually sew onto my work

The unfortunate things about websites is that you really can't see how the work is done (boo)
In my case, since I hand stitch on top of my work, once the main image is completely drawn...even when people look at the actual work, it takes them about a minute or so to figure out that my work is a bit .... different (Gasp!)
So here are some close up shots of my stitch work :-)

And yucky photo of me whilst in the process