My SS hit the nail on the head! I love homemade gifts, as well as artistic ones. The fact that the subject matter is a character I'm fond of is icing on the cake. :) Although a couple of the longer whiskers had snapped off in transit, I reattached one with some wood glue, and it looks perfectly fine. The other piece may have escaped through one of the worn out corners of the cardboard box. I'm still holding out for it being somewhere INSIDE my apartment, but not if it means finding it with my foot while stumbling to the bathroom in the middle of the night. For reference, he included the photo he used to create the piece, kindly colored in by his son. ;)

Also, I got a couple of T-shirts! Part padding for shipping the pyrography and part local flavor.

Thanks again, SS!