Bound by my Thoughts

I'm trying out this new art project idea by this woman Alma, who has a technique of combining wood and fabric called Telamedara. I was getting bored and uninspired by just drawing the same 'ol stuff, so wanted to see if doing something different would help me get inspired again. I tried this collage on wood art project, which failed, and I threw it out. This is my attempt at using fabric on wood, wood burning, and basically covering everything with a matte/glue finish, which I just really feel I'm not doing correctly, although everything says I am.

This only looks yellow because my camera sucks. It's pine wood. I drew the lady and the burned the wood. 

Then I painted her with acrylic paints mixed with a littler bit of water, to make it more like a water color paint. 

Then I added her "thoughts," outlined in burnt wood, and painted. 

Then I painted the outside part. 

Then I started adding the fabric. I had fabric from Africa I still hadn't used, so I used that for her "thoughts," and then had this brown, potato sack type fabric that I used for the outside. 

This is what it looked like finished, before I started matteing it. I wrote in "Bound by my Thoughts," and used brown and black paint to the fabric to make it look more textured. 

Close up. 

This is what it looks like right now, which freaks me out. I had kind of messed up on it. I wanted to coffee stain it, so  added coffee, but I guess the sticky backing I had used for the fabric wasn't supposed to get too wet, because it started coming off the wood. I figured all that matte/glue finish will make it stick, which it looks like it's working. I'm hoping it will just look like a shinier version of the finished version above.