Expectations & Trying too hard

Here, I am uploading a piece I've been doing for quite some time, and finally kind of... finished. Better to say, I thought: "well, looks like you can't  do anything about this anymore, so... we gotta move on, darling, we gotta live our life no matter what... juts let it go, babe".

So I let go.

Here's the story: my mother asked me for these. No, she actually asked me for some nice flowers, and I turned it into... this. From trying too hard - this is my problem number one. I do try hard, which sometimes is cool, but sometimes just leads to chaos eventually. This one was passed the sign "stahp" and became just a perfect example of what too much is.
Obviously, my mother wasn't pleased - apparently she hated the green and it was too far away from what she was expecting (I assume some kind of provence-fashion would satisfy her more than this circus), and the first feedback that I got wasn't a positive one. Even though I liked what I was doing, her reaction got me down, I didn't want to be careful anymore, and it all just went downhill.

It's a shame you can't see it in good quality - I simply cannot afford it technically at the moment, so these are just the phone photos.
I am not saying I hate this piece (neither I'm in love with it though), some parts of it do please me, and it gave me some quite useful things - to be persistent, to care less, *to keep the in-progress pictures to myself*, to keep the balance, to plan things out... Not to expect too much, I guess. To know where to stop.
Anyway, a failure can't be concerned as a complete failure if you learned your lesson, right?
Good.