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Gift Basket Ideas for Mother’s Day

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Apr 282010

When you can’t settle on just one gift for the special lady in your life this Mother’s Day, why not consider a gift basket? This particular option easily offers a collection of treats that specifically cater to individual interests or preferences. From fragrant flowers to tasty treats, there are plenty of Mother’s Day gift basket ideas to consider. A few suggestions include:

Chocolate Gift Basket

When you’re looking for a gift basket to tickle the sweet tooth of a chocoholic Mom, search no further than the Grand Ghirardelli Chocolate Gift Basket. Offering the sweet treats from one of the most recognizable names in the chocolate business, the gift basket truly provides a delightful assortment. From Ghiradelli’s premium chocolate collection, you’ll enjoy their Masterpiece Truffles, Chocolate Mint Drops, assorted Chocolate Squares, and chocolate bar. Capping off the chocolate gift basket is a soothing beverage – irresistible Ghirardelli Hot Cocoa Mix.

Tea Gift Basket

With the Spot of Tea Teacup Gift Basket, tea-loving mothers can indulge in one of their favorite brews. Packaged in a wicker tea cup and saucer, this charming gift basket comes filled to the brim with 24 individually sealed tea bags of fine teas, tea cookies, and colorful rock candy swizzle sticks. There are a variety of teas to please any palate, including herbal blends, chais, black teas, and green teas. With this assortment, it’s only natural to enjoy a festive tea party with Mom.

Bath and Body Gift Basket

One of the best ways to pamper a lucky lady on Mother’s Day is to send a gift basket filled with spa and beauty items, such as bubble bath, body lotion, and bath salts. For example, the #1 Mom Gift Basket offers the above bath and body treats plus an adorable plush teddy holding an embroidered heart with ‘#1 Mom’ on display. Contained in a cloth-lined wicker purse, this Mother’s Day gift delivers a blast of pampering fit for the Queen in your life.

Italian Wine Basket

Some Moms like to cook Italian dishes and then settle down with a nice glass of wine after all their hard work is done. With the Italian Wine Basket, you can send a wicker picnic hamper offering an assortment of gourmet ingredients and treats – perfect for creating a tasty Italian meal. Some of the items include Vineyard Pasta, Il Pane Tuscan Style bread dipping herbs, Nonni’s Panetini Garlic Crisps, Mediterranean Balsalmic Vinegar, Wine Cheese Spread, and Los Olivos Wine Biscuits. Tied with ribbon, you can also send this gift basket beauty with a personalized gift message from you when ordered from Amazon.com.

How to Make Sure Mom Will Love Her Mother’s Day Gift

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Apr 222010

Give Mom a Gift Full of Love. photo courtesy of es1123

Mother’s Day is rolling around once again. If you’re stumped on what to get your mom year after year, don’t worry. Lots of people struggle with finding a gift for mom that will be good enough for the woman who raised you and gave you life. Here are a few tips to follow that will ensure you get mom a gift she will love this Mother’s Day.

Start Investigating Early

Surely mom drops clues every now and then that will help you find the perfect Mother’s Day gift. They may be subtle, but if you start paying attention and investigating early, you will be sure to get a great idea for the perfect gift. The next time mom says something about a product she loves or her favorite perfume, write it down. Don’t rely on your memory or you may end up getting a gift she doesn’t really want.

Don’t be too Practical

Moms are often the ones that do the laundry, cleaning, and organizing. But that doesn’t mean she necessarily wants a laundry hamper for Mother’s Day. Be careful about being too practical with your gift. Someone once said that you should never give mom a gift with a cord– that may be true for your mother, too.

Show Emotion

Mom’s like to know you appreciate their hard work. Don’t be afraid to let your gift or Mother’s Day card show emotion. When your gift has meaning, she’ll love it even more. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to make mom happy as long as your gift is full of love.

Don’t Wait Until the Last Minute

If you wait until the last minute, mom will know. After all, she knows pretty much everything. Let her know that you think about her and care about her by planning ahead, being thoughtful and not waiting until the last minute to pick up a gift that isn’t really personal at all.

Spend What You Can

If you’re pulling in a six figure salary, don’t spend $10 on a Mother’s Day gift. Although she won’t really care how much you spend, she’ll know if you’re being cheap. If you don’t have much money in your budget for a Mother’s Day gift, consider giving mom your time. She’ll probably love that more than anything else that you could wrap up in a box.

How to Give Mom the Gift of More Free Time

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Apr 302009

Give Mom More Time. photo courtesy of tibchris

It’s something every mom wants– more time. But how do you wrap that up for Mother’s Day? There’s good news. We’ve got some time-saving gifts that you can easily wrap up just in time for her big day.

Time Waster:Â Searching for Keys

We waste precious hours searching for lost items like keys and cell phones. Help mom put these items in their place with this galvanized metal key cabinet from Pottery Barn. It’s just $49 and fits a wide variety of decor styles.

Time Waster: Shopping for Greeting Cards

Buy mom a greeting card organizer like this one from The Container Store and make sure it’s stocked with some of the necessities: birthday cards, baby shower cards, wedding cards and congratulations cards.

Time Waster: Cooking Dinner

Mom spends a lot of time creating lovely meals. Help her cut down the kitchen time with a George Foreman Grill. The new George Foreman 360 Grill comes with 5 removable grill plates that are dishwasher safe.

Time Waster: Feeding the Pet

Think of all the time mom will save with an automatic pet feeder. There are a wide variety to choose from at pet-super-store.com. Make sure to select one that still works during a power outage.

Time Waster: Household Chores

If your short on money, but full of love, give mom handmade coupons good for completing household chores. She’ll cash them in when she needs a little relaxation or rescue from laundry, dish washing or bathroom cleaning. Just make sure you follow through with your thoughtful gift.

Mother’s Day Gift That Keeps On Giving…

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May 042008

Go beyond the typical floral gift for Mother’s Day by giving one of the most treasured flowers out there – orchids. Stately and beautiful, orchid plants can perk up any room and there are some great ideas, types and colors available.

Orchids.Com is a cool spot for orchid lovers and those looking to choose from gift baskets, cut flowers and even an orchid of the month club. Tell Mom she’s special this month and remind her every month for the next twelve. That’s a lot better than the vacuum cleaner you bought last year. And it doesn’t matter that it was a Dyson. Sheesh.

For under $50 you can purchase a great potted orchid that will last for weeks at Orchids.Com, which if you’re a thrifty kind of person you’ll find it’s a better deal than $50 on cut roses that’ll die in a week!

1888Orchids.Com not on provides fantastic orchids, they offer a gift guide, gift certificates and an orchid blog. For new moms, a great gift option at 1888Orchids.Com is the “New Baby Orchids” bouquet on sale this week for with about $10 off depending on the bouquet.

So this week, think orchids.

For more online florist resourcesÂ that offer excellent giftÂ ideas and products, pleaseÂ read: A Token Of Love, Flowers! Online Resources.

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Mother’s Day Scrapbook

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Apr 292008

“This is your life, mother”

Â A great idea for this mother’s day is a scrapbook depicting your mother’s life up until this point. It’s like a chronological tour of her life ’til now. The hardest part of this book will be finding all the pictures and keepsakes you will need, but you still have about 2 weeks to gather everything you need from aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and close friends.

Here is a list of basic items to get you started (these can be personalized according to your mom’s taste):

a scrapbooking kit (any craft/hobby store should have one)
Mother’s day embellishments, stickers, rub-ons
Memory and Date embellishments, stickers, embossing
Personal pictures (from her childhood to current) school photos, high school prom, graduation, wedding, following baby’s birth, vacation pictures
Mom’s favorite and best recipes
Mom’s accomplishments
Poem for first page that describes what your mother means to you
Her ambitions from when she was young (“I want to grow up to be”) and then what she became
Past cards from husband and kids (mother’s day, birthday cards, valentine’s, etc.)
Personal notes to mom from family members, friends and you
What your mom means to you page

The book should start from the earliest information you can gather to today. The setup of the pages will be left up to you, I use a similar setup as pictured above. The page arrangement in the book will depend greatly on how much and what information you have on each item in her life. This is a great site to get ideas on different layouts for your pages. This will be such a special from-the-heart gift, it is sure to be treasured and showed off over the years. Another cool thing to do, is every mother’s day from this point on, you could incorporate more parts of the book; displaying such items from the previous as vacations, special moments (births), valentine’s and Christmas. Once your book is complete, wrap it in your favorite Mother’s day paper and wait for the tears Winking .

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Gift Ideas for Mother’s Day

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Apr 092008

This post was submitted by one of our Guest Contributors: Cindy Magee. You can read her blog at http://mageebaby.blogspot.comÂ Â

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Motherâ€™s Day is coming soon â€“ May 11th in fact! It can be tough to figure out what token of affection to bestow upon my two momâ€™s each year to celebrate and show appreciation for all their love. So last month, when I got a small catalog in the mail from Spring Hill Nurseries I was delighted and relieved! Whew! Flowers to the rescue!

The mailing included several flyers highlighting different varieties of plants as part of the One Cent Sale. Sorry folks, they arenâ€™t giving them away but almost. For example, purchase one Crazy Daisy plant for $6.99 and get one more for just one cent! This particular plant is shipped in a 3â€ pot so if playing in the dirt isnâ€™t Momâ€™s thing, then just purchase a pretty container at a local gardening center, plant your flower of choice, and fancy it up with a big bow. Voila â€“ a beautiful lasting gift for Mom at an affordable price!

Gardeners everywhere are starting to salivate. At least, I was when I started flipping through all the different choices available in the One Cent Sale. My top picks are the Crazy Daisy, Sensation Lilacs, Matsukaze Toad Lily, Tenor Tall Phlox or the Golden Marguerite Daisy. Iâ€™m daydreaming about planting all of these in my yardâ€¦ who needs a lawn, or a house for that matter, bring on the flowers!!!

Now the only difficult part is picking out just the right flower for each of my Momâ€™s. They are both very unique women with distinct taste. For my husbandâ€™s Mom Iâ€™m thinking the Golden Marguerite Daisy. They are lemon yellow blossoms and look like sun impersonators on tall green sticks. For my Mom, maybe the fluffy looking Crazy Daisy which is sure to put a smile on anyoneâ€™s face! I can picture Mom working in her flowerbeds and plucking off one of the blossoms to put behind her ear for dÃ©cor.

One thing generally all women share in common is a love of receiving flowers. Itâ€™s like we are reminded of spring when the buds start to appear, that winter is over and itâ€™s time in life to enjoy the sunshine again. To give your Mom a little bit of sunshine, visit http://springhillnursery.com Â and for the One Cent Sale click on http://springhillnursery.com/search.asp?ss=one+cent+sale .

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About our Guest Contributor: Cindy Magee is an artist and a soon to be stay at home mom. Her blog can be viewed at http://mageebaby.blogspot.com Â and her artwork can be seen at http://clou.websiteanimal.com

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