Can't leave well enough alone

A plain border seems so, well, plain to me anymore.  Ever since I started using piano key borders and pieced borders, it's hard to simply sew a length of fabric on the outside of a quilt.  The mystery quilt, Sunset and Vine, is an example.  The concluding instructions were posted Tuesday and showed this:

Which is fine.  The quilt has a lot going on and the border gives a nice finish.  

But.

I didn't want to leave it at that.  The gold and green chains just begged to be included in the border somehow.  I got on EQ an came up with (I'm using greens instead of purples):

Isn't that just, I don't know, cooler somehow?  I thought so.  Don't get me wrong, I love the quilt design and I would have never thought to make those strip pieced corners in the star blocks.  But I love my border.  Even if I had to buy more dark blue fabric and I'm going to have a lot of the medium green left over  Maybe a pieced back?  That sounds like a good idea!