Birthday gift

This holiday weekend, my sister and I traveled back home to celebrate our cousin's 75th birthday!!!  She said, "no gifts", but I had to make her just a little something special and funny!!!   We are so Italian, and honor our ancestry every chance we get.....all of our parents emigrated from Italy, and we shared so many wonderful stories at a fab restaurant where we enjoyed "real" Italian cusine....all homemade food!!!  We had thick crust pizza with fresh tomatoes, just like our moms used to make......oh, yum!!!

This is a little pillow filled with lavender from my garden, just a cute something to sit on a shelf and enjoy...

I incorporated out family name and home town on the postage mark, and I stamped the muslin ribbon with "Te Amo".......and stamped the brown wrapping paper with Italian poetry, postage and sayings.  We had a great time!!!