Dreamy Sleep Mask
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Give Mom the gift of pure relaxation this Mother's Day with these spa-inspired gifts, personalized coupon books, and sweet-smelling ideas. After all, she does deserve to be spoiled.
Bedazzle Mom's beauty sleep with a dreamy mask made using our clip art and embellishments.
A lovely basket filled with a few of Mom's favorite things makes a memorable Mother's Day present.
Go with Mom's favorite color and fill a basket with everything she would want for several long, leisurely soaks in the tub, including pretty soaps, a scented votive candle, lush towels, lotions, and a wood-handled hairbrush.
You need only four ingredients to make these moisturizing exfoliants for Mom. Place the scrub in canning jars, decorate with our clip-art labels, and tie a pretty spoon or a bath sponge to the lid with waxed twine.
Nothing soothes the soul like a good long soak, especially with a heady infusion of calming scents. Make Mom lemon, lavender, peppermint, and chamomile tub-tea varieties.
Create colorful bath fizzies for Mom using cane sugar, baking soda, essential oils, and citric acid (available at wine-making-supply stores and spice shops).
Give Mom a warm, rosy glow on her special day with a skin-brightening mask made from three simple ingredients: papaya, honey, and yogurt.
Fluffy, personalized slippers make a cozy gift for Mom. Add her initials using satin stitch, French knots, or another favorite stitch.
Give Mom the the greatest luxury of all -- time -- by saving her a trip to the craft store and giving her more time to focus on tackling a fun project. Assemble all the tools, materials, instructions, and templates needed for a particular project into an attractive package (such as the catnip toy kit shown here).
Use Mom's favorite fruit or herb to make luscious homemade soaps.
Brighten Mom's day by filling antique teacups that have lost their saucers with homemade candles.
Make Mom's day by giving her a set of these colorful candles. They're easy to make: You start with store-bought pillars and dip them in melted crayon shavings.
Prepare a luxurious gift for Mom with this homemade Hammam shower scrub, a traditional Turkish bath, which softens the skin with rose petals. In our three-step version, a sugar scrub gently exfoliates the top layer of dead cells, a rose body wash calms skin, and a nourishing cream moisturizes.
Complete with a watering can, herb seed packets, and floral shears, this beautiful herb garden kit will help any Mom with a green thumb feel the calming effects of gardening.
A coupon book made using our clip art and scrapbook paper is a memorable gift that allows Mom to savor the splendors of Mother's Day long after the holiday has passed.
Make a refreshing spritz Mom will adore. To create fragrant water sprays, simply fill mist bottles with water and a few strips of julienned cucumber or sprigs of lavender and mint. Label bottles and wrap.
Customize this basic lip balm recipe for Mom by infusing it with her favorite scented oils.
Help Mom relax with a soothing soak in the tub. Add sweet-smelling flowers, essential oils, and relaxing Epsom salts to a tea ball for a peaceful bath.
Instead of placing your Mother's Day bouquet in a vase, surprise Mom by hanging posies in striped cones on her door or around the house.
To make flower cones, cut medium-weight paper into a 7-inch square. Use decorative scissors to scallop the edge and a pencil to form the tip. Secure the outer flap of cone with craft glue. Punch six holes, 1 inch apart, beginning at the top front center; thread a 20-inch length of 1/2-inch-wide ribbon through holes. Tie a bow at the front, and leave a 7-inch loop at the back.
Set a relaxing mood for Mom with floating candles made using muffin tins, cookie cutters, and tart molds.
Bring the spa home and prepare this three-step facial ritual that will make Mom's skin more luminous. The treatment includes a face scrub, hydrating mushroom mask, and mineral-rich serum.
Spoil Mom with an all-natural lemon-scented body scrub that's easy and inexpensive to make.
Every Mom loves receiving flowers on Mother's Day; present yours in an everlasting floral vase for a gift that's twice as special.
Encourage Mom to kick back and relax with a big cup of tea. Make sachets to fill with a mix of her favorite loose teas (or create custom blends from dried herbs and edible flowers, such as mint and hibiscus). Add tags, and package in a gift box.
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