blossom bows [sadie's ss]

[Tom]

To,
Sadie Rior

Hi! I'm Carter Laws. I wanted to share a little of my garden with someone else. I've spent all year growing an assortment of different flowers and herbs, so I decided to send some out to whoever I got for secret santa this year. It started out as my dad's idea to do this, but once I started making the gift, I really enjoyed knowing it's going to someone else who will hopefully like it. If you don't, that's okay, just don't tell me about it.

In the gift are some flowers, which if you're a reader (I don't know if you are...) you could press them against the pages of a book and let them dry out. They make good bookmarks. I know flowers don't last forever, so I did my best to make a basket from some of the willow out by my brother's grave. The gravekeeper said he wasn't going to keep the branches he cut down so I decided to weave a basket. This was my third attempt, but I hope you like it. I know One is very different from Twelve, but think of it as a sort of one of a kind antique. I'm sure people will believe it.

Plus I carved my name into one of the parts, so if you just wanted to sell it. It'd be worth at least something.

After all, I am a dead zombie or something.

Merry Ratmas and/or Happy Holidays!

From your zombie SS,

(In the gift: A handmade basket, woven from willow; an uneven edge to it as if someone's hands had been shaky when making the basket. A large red bow, tied hastily around the side of it glitters brightly. Inside the Willow basket is an assortment of multi-colored from flowers from Roses to Lavender to Poppies to Daisies and many other flowers of all sorts of bright colors. A single note let between all of them reads: "From my hands to yours; I wanted to give a little of the life I've created to someone else this year.")