Mother’s Day is probably the best gift-giving holiday when it comes to me and my obsessive DIY-ing. As a child I gifted my mum handmade crafts of popsicle sticks, paint, glitter, and glue. Fortunately for my mom, I’ve graduated into more useful DIY projects that don’t shed sequins all over everything. Here’s some of my favorite gift-able items for your mum!
Spa Night
Encourage your mom to relax my giving her an at-home spa night basket loaded with a dry face mask mix, a great sugar scrub, some bath salts, and a few tea lights to complete the mood.
Beauty Basket
If your mum loves make-up, why not create some custom make-up with her? You can make some eyeshadow, blush, mineral make-up, and some great argan oil (USA / Canada) facial serum.
Luxury Bath Kit
If you mum loves baths (and especially if you live in a cold climate), give her a great bath kit. Load it up with bath bombs, homemade soap and shampoo, bath salts, and fizzy bath scrubs.
Soft Skin Collection
Pamper your mom’s skin with a great collection of body butter, lotion, exfoliating scrubs, and lip balm.
Pamper Those Lips
It’s a gift for your dad, too 😉 Soften up your mum’s lips with homemade lip scrubs, lip balms, and lip glosses!
I find parents are the hardest to shop for… my parents always tell me how they have everything they need already. They don’t like clutter and are trying to simplify as opposed to accumulate more stuff, so even though they tell me not to get them anything, that still somehow feels wrong. The DIY route is definitely a great way to show your appreciation, your genetic awesomeness/talent (at least hopefully), give them something useful, and to save a pretty penny in the process. These ideas are great! I hope you do a Dad’s day post as well–if mothers are hard to gift, fathers are 10x worse.
Isn’t it funny how two of the people you (theoretically) know best in the world can be so hard to shop for? I generally find my mom is quite easy to buy for, but my dad can be quite the challenge. I’m finding that experiences (concert tickets and the like) can be good options if something good comes through town. I’m working on brainstorming father’s day ideas… so far I have about… 3. Dad’s are hard!
Have you ever tried adding oil to your clay masks instead of water to make it hydrating?
I have! Too much oil makes a mask very difficult to apply… they sort of clump and peel off your face straight away if you aren’t careful 🙁 I generally add 4–6 drops of jojoba oil to a mask to offset the tightness/drying effects, and a bit of honey helps as well. I’ve had some success making oilier masks, but you have to be quite attentive with massaging the mask into your face. It’ll be quite a thin coating, but definitely easier on your skin than one made with mostly water.
I truly love reading this blog! Always jam packed with tons of ideas.
This post really helped me out as my mom is the hardest to shop for! Not because she is picky, she’s just really special to me and I want here to have the best. I always look for unique ideas each year and these ideas are great!
Thank you so much for sharing!
Have a wonderful day,
Lisa
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Thanks for stopping by & reading, Lisa! Good luck shopping/DIY-ing for your mum, she sounds super special 🙂
Mothers are always so hard to buy for!
thank you for the ideas!
You’re welcome! Mums are so special that I find I’m always left wondering about the best gift 🙂
Great ideas (and recipes included)! I have the same problem as Sarah, where my mother-in-law doesn’t want “stuff” all over the place. I find that something they can actually use (that won’t be around forever i.e. lotions and soaps and other products that get used up) is the best way to go… In addition to photo books of the grandkids of course!
All our mums/mum-in-laws sound so similar that we might just be sisters 😉 I’m getting to be a bit like that myself, too—funny how things that seemed like awful gifts as a kid (lotion, clothes, shoes, furniture, books) are all I want now because they are actually useful!
I will be referring back to this once Christmas comes round 🙂
Stay tuned for my Father’s Day entry!
wow you have a gift of making these products
Aww, thanks 🙂
Love these ideas! Thanks so much!
Thanks, Emerald? What’s your favourite mom gift?