Young, Dumb, and Full of Microplastics - Cross Stitch Pattern

I had this stupid thought at work and knew I had to make it immediately. I played around with a few different fonts & spacing, but something about "microplastic" not fitting & looking like it was just pasted into a different pattern really makes me laugh. I set this down multiple times while I was test stitching & said "this might be the stupidest thing I've ever made"... but here we are anyway!

I'm sorry about the confetti, but I tried to make the color placements not too terrible. It would also be super fun to do with beads instead! I actually had a much harder time with the flower spacing, and if you can see all the times I had to frog no you don't ☺️
Important note: I absolutely made a couple mistakes in the confetti part, but it's correct in the pattern I promise.

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Shown on 28 count fabric.

Pattern info:
90 x 58 stitches

14 count: 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 stitches
16 count: 5 5/8 x 3 5/8 stitches
18 count: 5 x 3/14 stitches.

Colors:
DMC 223, 307, 310, 321, 333, 335, 469, 470, 553, 608, 718, 963, 3766 & 3848

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