Mother's Day Gift Guide

Body Butter

Your mom might be a softy, but nothing helps butter her up more than this body butter from the fair trade arm of Overstock.com. Your mom can feel good about herself slathering on this 100% natural unrefined shea butter, sweet almond oil, lavender and honeysuckle oils and feel better about the environment as this product ships carbon neutral. Price: $21.72

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Remind Mom to Care for Herself

Whoever said there isn’t a book on parenting hasn’t met Author Debbie Koenig, author of “Parents Need to Eat Too,” a book helping new mothers navigate the kitchen while taking care of baby. There's a chapter based entirely on the pantry (who has time to shop?), another with recipes to do in stages while baby sleeps, a chapter stocked with streamlined slow cooker recipes, and one full of meals to eat with one hand (no more skipping meals just because baby's fussy). Price: $16.99

Photo Credit: Debbie Koenig 

Mom Rules

Yes, she does and we really couldn’t compile a list without flowers, but these aren’t just any flowers, they’re blue delphinium, lavender poms and fuchsia dianthus hand arranged in a beautiful pink mug with a “Mom Rules” magnet. Price: $39.99.

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Turn her Kids into Fine Art

Photos of them anyway. Any image can be uploaded and published on unique materials such as: birch wood, acrylic, mirror, glass, aluminum, wall art. Gallery Direct implements the same state-of-the-art printing technologyand high-end materials to user image uploads as they do to publish limited-edition prints of artwork from their 100s of signed artists.  Cost to create art using the above materials is $49.

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Turn her Family Into a Book

If art isn’t her thing, you might consider giving her a gift that can be passed from generation to generation: A photo book MyPublisher’s photo books feature high-end luxury details like heavy stock, professional quality binding and a variety of color, styles and materials such as picture windows, custom jackets or leather cover options. Prices start at $2.99 per page for a 20-page softcover book.

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College Tuition

If your mother has everything and is moved by gifts that actually benefit someone besides herself, give her the gift of education by making a donation to Vittana. For $25, this organization will lend a student from a third world country tuition to continue their education.

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Personalized Gift Cards

Ok, money isn’t necessarily a unique gift, but the way you give it can be. For $5.95 + whatever amount you would like to put on this Visa card, you can personalize the card with her favorite family photograph or a special love note from the kids. Every time she pulls this Visa card out wherever they are accepted, she will think of her family.

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Sustainable Preserves

Many women are finding their way back to the kitchen and on their way, they would like foods produced sustainably. If your mom is a foodie and loves preserves, this 6-jar gift set from Rare Bird Preserves uses only fruit grown sustainably, local to the producer and in season. Price: $50

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A Pond

You don’t have to go digging the backyard up if your wife or mother would like to have a pond. These patio ponds can be set on your concrete patio or wooden deck and provides the same advantages with less space and maintenance. Made from weather resistant wicker will not fade or crack.  Price: $299.

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For the Mother with the Shoe Fetish

What woman doesn’t love shoes and what woman doesn’t love chocolates? Mix the two together and you have a very unique Mother’s Day gift that pays homage to Mom’s favorite things. A package of seven individually wrapped chocolate lollipops is $29.99 and comes in a gift box with a gift card provided.

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