Is This a Weird Gift for an 11 Year Old?

The pillow is finished. It's sort of cute... smaller than I thought it might be, but that's okay. I started today with just the front sewn together as you can see in these pictures (and that was after staying up until almost midnight sewing on the flowers and completing the first seams). Sewed the rest up today and stuffed it. The kids really wanted to help with the stuffing, but they needed to get to bed and I wasn't close enough at that point to have them stay up to help. I may have mentioned that we were supposed to go to dinner at the "birthday" girl's house tonight, but they had to cancel, so that gave me an extra day to finish. We'll go tomorrow night and now I'll have her gift (only a month late).

The question I have is... is this a weird gift for a kid? Seems like a little old lady gift (perfect for me!) The girl knows I'm knitting her gift, and in a panic today I corned the mom and told her that she might want to tell her daughter I'm not making a sweater or anything like that. I started to think about it and realized she might be really disappointed if she has in her head she's getting a garment of some sort and I show up with a tiny pillow.

Just want to point out that those little spots on the pillow are clumps of beads... as I was looking at the picture, I couldn't tell what they were and I was the one who made the darn thing. Thought it was some lint on the pillow or a mark on my lens.

In case anyone wants to know, this pattern is a mixture of two patterns in the book Knit It! Felt It!

Finally, I just want to show you the card my daughter made for her teacher (the one who has had visa problems and is just arriving for the school year tomorrow). She used one of the flowers that I didn't use and made a pin for her teacher.