So I Have a Beef

I love Miribilia designs by Nora Corbett.  I think she designs the most beautiful ladies out there.  The colours are amazing (although maybe too much yellow and white for my liking at times.) and the faces are beautiful even when done over 2.  BUT... BUT.... These days she uses so many beads and specialty threads that A) I can't afford them and B) I don't like to bead that much!  I find it starts looking cheap.

This her latest design, just came out today.   The Raven Queen.  And she is TO DIE FOR!  I would love, love, LOVE to stitch her, but...  I'd need 10 packs of beads, 3 skeins of Caron Waterlilies, 2 rolls of Kreinik cable and 6 spools of Kreinik braid.  I cannot afford the at least $50 expenditure on TOP of the $20 for the chart and the $20 at least for the fabric.  And that's not counting the normal floss either!  I really wish she'd give normal floss alternatives for all the fussy stuff.  

My other beef concerns Miribilia too, but that's just because that's what came up today.  It can be any design, really.  See, one of the lastest things in stitching is marbled/dyed fabric. I have some.  When it's done right it can really be lovely, but it can also be overdone and I think, my opinion, is that one has to be careful what design they decide to put on a piece of this stuff.  So...  today this came up in one of the FB pages I follow.  I think  first off, the colour choice is wrong, but also, the design is lost on that busy busy background.

This is the design done on the original suggested fabric.  Honestly, doesn't the design pop more on this?  Isn't the main focus the design itself and not whatever's going on in the background?  I just don't get it when people go gaga over something like the above.