Progress!  Or rather,  pictures!

  Also, here's Rainbow Dash with a Mohawk before I pulled all the hair out:

I currently have 6,300 stars folded at the time of this writing!  I still need 652 more for the picture.

 

(There's about 4,000 or so in that bucket-jar thing)    I also got a piece of cardboard big enough for the picture!  It comes up to my waist from the floor.

That's it on the couch.  (Notice Rikku in the corner on a box?)  I need to get some posterboard to cover it and add the white background I'll be working from.  But, it's a sturdy backdrop and it should work.

Now if only I could find a frame this big cheaply.  Otherwise I'm going to have to make that too!