Mother’s Day Gift Guide: Beautiful, Useful & Meaningful Gift Ideas For All Budgets
Posted on May 2, 2019
It’s almost that time for us all to celebrate the special ladies in our life for Mother’s Day! And if you happen to be a mama yourself, then our hopes and dreams of being pampered all weekend basking in the glory of peace and quiet, with an endless supply of hot coffee and wine and chocolate and the couch to ourselves with a stack of magazines and free reign on the DVR are about to come true!!! Whether or not our wishes will be granted this year, we all still have a little gifting to do. Today, I’m sharing a Mother’s Day Gift Guide: Beautiful Useful & Meaningful Gift Ideas For All Budgets. I hope this helps you with your shopping!!
[*Affiliate links are used in this post.]
Let’s face it, this guide can absolutely serve as your own personal wish-list, but I thought it would be nice to round up some ideas for all of the important women in your life who deserve to be celebrated. Moms, Grandmas, Aunts, Sisters, Daughters, Friends, Neighbors and Co-workers and if you want to gift yourself a little something, you can certainly do that, too!
You deserve it, mama!
She wants to feel special, loved, appreciated and a little pampered so help her out!
One thing I know about gifts receiving anymore, is that practical and useful gifts are some of the best kind. The items you don’t know you needed until you have them and then you can’t imagine your life without them?
Yeah, those kind! Nice towels, upgraded cookware, a cute coffee mug [that actually keeps your coffee HOT!] are just a few of the things I included.
So many of these gift ideas are tried and true! If I don’t own them or someone very close to me hasn’t oohed and ahhed abou theirs, then I made sure the item has rave reviews! Like the smoothie machine for example, it has 7500 glowing reviews! #addtocart
MOTHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE: BEAUTIFUL, USEFUL & MEANINGFUL GIFT IDEAS FOR ALL BUDGETS
1 | COZY THROW BLANKET – If you know me personally, you know me and my family are obsessed with our Barefoot Dreams throw blankets. My mom, aunt and sister have multiple. Like in each room. They feel like butter and are so cozy and warm. I’m the type that likes to have a blanket on my lap year-round, morning, noon or night, so our blankets definitely get some mileage around here. The leopard print is my fav, but this dusty rose color is so beautiful.
A nice blanket that she will absolutely love, I promise! She doesn’t know she needs it yet, but she will thank you once she’s all wrapped up and lounging in it!
2 | MIMOSA CANDLE – Dyptique candles have been around forever and they smell amazing. Plus, isn’t “mimosa” just fitting to gift over Mother’s Day Brunch?!
3| BIRTHSTONE & INITIAL NECKLACE – I thought this necklace was such a sweet idea. You can customize the birthstones and initials on the leaves! Kids, siblings, grandkids – it would work for them all. The shop has 1-2 day turnaround, too which is great for a last minute gift!
4 | FAMILY TREE WALL PRINT – We have this custom family tree print hanging in our hallway and we also gifted it to my parents and in-laws for Christmas several years ago. I love having a visual of our family’s ancestry for the boys to see. The biggest has it memorized 🙂
5 | ROSE GOLD GYM/TRAVEL BAG – These “crush it” bags have been one of Stella & Dot’s top selling items since they were released. We also carry a camo version which has been very popular too, as you might guess! I love that the bottom part unzips to store gym shoes, pool gear, etc. and the rose gold is just so pretty! Perfect gym bag or travel bag.
6 | WATCH – yes, this is a splurge, but it is so incredibly beautiful and will last a lifetime. I have an all silver Michele watch that T gifted me for my birthday one year and I truly treasure it! The gold and silver combo of this one sure does give me all the heart eyes.
7 | TORY BURCH LOGO SUNGLASSES – you can’t go wrong with a classic pair of sunglasses. Tory’s are some of my favorite designer sunglasses.
8 | SLIPPERS – Hands-down the best slipper around! I wear a slipper year-round because my feet are always cold, but I also don’t like walking around barefoot. Especially when traveling! I get a new pair of these every year or two, but they can take some wear and tear. Totally worth the money in my opinion!!
9 | YETI WITH HANDLE – yes, yes and more yes! This cup is a mama’s dream! Anyone else reheat their coffee more times than they can count each day? Have you ever opened the microwave at dinner time and found your coffee cup from the morning? Happens to me all the time! But I don’t have to reheat my coffee when I am using my yeti! I have it in white, but for some reason the white version is triple the cost, so I linked the black one.
There are lots of other color options too!
10 | POLKA DOT MUG – because you can’t go wrong with a cute mug. Fill it with chocolates or put a gift card inside. This one you can microwave over and over, if need be 🙂
11 | BEADED BRACELET – The blush pink and metallic beads are such a pretty combination. It can be worn alone or stacked with other bracelets to create an arm party. The colors are soft, neutral and will go with anything!
12 | AROMATHERAPY DIFFUSER – My mom has this one and it’s so pretty. I think I’m going to get this one for myself. I have one in our bedroom, but would like to put one in the kitchen. If you are new to essential oils, this is a great starter kit and can be used in the diffuser. I love lavender at night!!
13 | MOTHER BOOK – a little something she can read or set on a shelf or coffee table as a display piece. I’ve always loved Maya Angelou and her words bound in a book about Motherhood would be touching to receive.
14 | Q&A A DAY FOR MOMS – This book is to serve as a journal where at the top of each page is a question for the mom to answer each day. The book can later be shared or passed down to her children or grandchildren as a book of memories of all the big and little moments in her day-to-day life.
15 | TORTOISE HANDLE STRAW PURSE – Adorable!! And at such a great price point! A cute straw bag with an even cuter tortoise handle.
16 | ENGRAVABLE DISC NECKLACE – Even if you’re buying for someone who doesn’t wear much jewelry, an engravable necklace is a piece she will cherish. It can be personalized with initials, a special date, etc. and it will absolutely be one of those meaningful gifts she wouldn’t necessarily go and buy for herself. You can customize the font, too! It’s definitely a beautiful and classic necklace.
17 | SINGLE SERVE SMOOTHIE MAKER – This is the one!! The smoothie maker with 7,500 rave reviews! And isn’t that berry color so gorgeous!
18 | STRIPED WEEKEND BAG – I wanted this bag a couple years ago and then it sold out and now it’s back! This is a classic, go anywhere type of bag!! Fill it with her favorite goodies and take her on a road trip or to the spa!
19 | CERAMIC COPPER COOKWARE SET – a nice set of matching pots and pans that aren’t worn out and on their last limb! yes, please!
20 | EDGE WINE GLASSES – Love, love our edge wine glasses!! We were gifted them for our wedding along with the edge champagne flutes and they’re used regularly and are in perfect condition. I even put them in the top-rack of our dishwasher. Not that I’m encouraging you to do it because I’m sure hand-wash is recommended, but mine are still intact after 8 years!
21 | COZYCHIC ROBE – Again, barefoot dreams = butter, so why not turn your blanket into robe form? Genius!!
22 | IROBOT ROOMBA – we don’t own this, but my parents do and I love turning it on and watching it get to work whenever we visit. There’s something satisfying about watching the floor get cleaned while you are doing something else. Whether it be laundry or dishes or sitting on the couch thankful you’re not the one vacuuming right now!!
23 | TOWELS – These towels are so good! They’ve been a favorite towel for years and I like to stock up when they go on sale. Which is right now when you buy 2, you save. I have several towels in white and also gray. I love these for myself, but I also like to have nice towels on-hand for guests to use when they are here visiting.
24 | YOGA MAT – there are 15 different patterns to choose from but I love the design and color of this mat. A health and wellness gift is always nice especially if you paired it with a gift certificate to a new gym or yoga studio shes been wanting to try and then sign the two of you up to take a class together!
And here are several more ideas I found [and love] but didn’t have room to include them in the collage:
I also think any of the items I shared in my latest obsessions post would make great gifts, too!
So are your wheels spinning? Any good ideas you’re taking away with you?!
These are definitely some of my very favorite things and you may recognize some of the ideas from my entertaining essentials guide or any of my other gift guides in the past.
Like I said, these Mother’s Day gift ideas are at all different price points, so while there are some splurge items included in my round-up, if you’re buying for your own mom maybe you can go in on it with all your siblings. Group gifts are a great way to pick out something with a slightly higher price tag, but worth it if you know she’ll go crazy for it!
Either way, this Mother’s Day Gift Guide is here to serve as inspiration and hopefully help you check “Buy Mother’s Day gift” off your never-ending to-do list!
Also, if you want to copy and paste this link and email to your husband, then by all means! Go right ahead. I don’t blame you one bit.
T – if you’re reading, I’ll take one of each, please 🙂
I linked the gift ideas below the collage image above and the thumbnails of each item at the bottom of the post are also clickable, shoppable links as well. I’ll continue to update the thumbnail gallery as I come up with new Mother’s Day gift ideas for you [and me!]
Happy shopping and Happy early Mother’s Day!
Don’t forget to pin for later!
Need more ideas? Here are all of my past gift guides!
