mini thanks

Just a few days after arriving home from our vacation,

I bought a gift card for my friend,

as a thank-you for taking care of all the cats,

watering my porch plants, and grabbing the mail while we were gone.

And then,

it sat.

I am so lame.

Then I thought, I'll mail it to her ~ that'd be kinda punny.

You know - she'd get mail, thanking her for getting my mail...

But I am no better at putting things in the mail

than I am at driving over to people's houses, and still it sat.

Yesterday, she asked if she could come over and buy some popcorn off me;

she knew we'd bought a 50# bag at Sam's recently.

Yay - I can finally give her the gift card, I thought.

But, it looked a little lame, sitting there in its cardstock holder.

It was, after all, now weeks since she'd looked after things for me.

So, I decided I needed to make a mini zip bag, to put it in.

I would use pink scraps and do an improv pieced front.

That'd be cute ~ she'd like that.

Then I realized,

I don't actually have many pink scraps; I haven't made a pink quilt yet.

What to use, then, that would properly convey my gratitude?

Obviously, there was only one answer ~ a piece of my beloved California Dreamin'.

Made up into a little bag, complete with little boxed corners.

Perfect for a wrapping a gift card 'thank-you'. 

She told me multiple times that the gift card was too much,

so

I did what any good friend would do.

I told her she could take me out.