Progress on Prairie Life Sampler

I am happy that I got the words stitched.

I didn't chart out the words - just counted spaces and made really weird and not very legible notes. Somehow on the second row, I totally miscounted and it was way off (not centered) and there was a big space on the right side of that row so I just stuck the word "kind" in there at the end of that row and it fit perfectly and makes sense. Yay!

I'm still going to put two more rows of grass under the trees at the top.

This is the whole design - the original design.

I didn't want to stitch the people or the kinda weird horses so I started a few rows lower, changed the spacing on the words and made them 5 rows instead of 4 rows and my words end almost exactly where the words end on the original. 

Next challenge. I don't like all those motifs and flowers. A reader commented and now I see it  . . it's almost like two different charts - the top is very "prairie like" and the bottom is flowers and clutter. (my words not hers).

I still have Saturday and Sunday to work on this project so I'm going to spend that time stitching flowers and leaves in the border and thinking about what I may want to stitch in that bottom portion. I wouldn't mind having a garden with veggies and a few flowers, maybe a chicken pen with some chickens - something more like what would have been found on a homestead back during the days of heading west. Thoughts? Suggestions?? Thanks!