HI SHEVOTA;;
Well most of us still use a lot of suger??? you did more tooling on your first holster than I did on my first...on mine I just knife cut and dyed the back ground green....used for many years as it was........I did however get a book from tandy and learned how to tool flowers and such, then stuff looked like everone else's stuff.???. but I think you could learn to complete your tooling as teaching books show, then , you stuff will look like their stuff.....might also watch the straightness of your stitching
you have done very well and I fell your wife is very proud of it for good reason ,,,good pattern ,,nice finish ,,(stain the back also) ,love the pink gun....
thanks for sharing your work with us ..
regards...Doc...