Full steam ahead!

I'm not sure just how many years I've been working on this painting but I know I'm not finished with it yet. What do you think of the changes so far? Current plans are to put it into a wooden frame that's about the color of some of the tea in the painting. The great thing about is that I found it at the sale for two dollars and it leaves the ornate gold frame that this painting used to be in for some of my better work.