I’ve had a few people asking about gifts for Mothers Day, so I’ve had a wee hunt around to find some lovely things to celebrate the wonderful women in your lives – things that are a far cry from the handkerchiefs that I’m fairly certain I heaped upon my mama when I was younger! Now I’m all about the pampering – giving her some TLC and some time out to relax.
How does your mum like to relax? If it’s with a cuppa and a good book, why not get her a tea set and some of her favourite tea? If she’s a runner, perhaps some new exercise gear would be up her alley. A voucher for a massage or a facial probably wouldn’t go amiss. Try to think outside the box – for example, instead of just buying her a pretty bowl, get her one and fill it with her favourite fresh fruit! Or give her a cookie jar filled with baking. Adding that extra thought to personalising your present will be the perfect little special touch.
SHOP IT: Dear Mum: Purse, $74.90 from Kikki.K | Next Handmade Tortoiseshell Effect Sunglasses, $97.00 from EziBuy | LEDEN Golden Concrete Pot, $39.00 from Collected by LeeAnn Yare | Skinny Dip Ring, $129.00 from Saben | Nike Roshe Sneakers, $120.00 from Nike | Chocolate Mint Tea, $19.95 from Harney & Sons | Dear Mum: Thank You For Being You Book, $24.90 from Kikki.K | Grid Metal Basket, $29.00 from Collected by LeeAnn Yare
If your mum likes to relax in a bubble bath or pamper herself, why not give her something to make her feel fantastic? I’ve tried out a few of these goodies myself and holy moly! The Yummy Mummy shower gel and body conditioner from Lush are hands down my biggest “OMG I MUST HAVE THAT!” of this year – I popped in to my local Lush store and tried them out and they are delicious. While I was there I tried the Strawberry Feels Forever Massage Bar as well, and I had to pick one up for myself because it’s mouthwatering. In fact the three of them together are probably the best combination ever. I swear to goodness. I’ve got to be honest – at this point I may as well take out stock in Lush.
SHOP IT: Nude by Nature Professional Brush Set, $31.99 from Mighty Ape | True Love Lipstick, $30.00 from Karen Murrell | Atlas Mountain Rose Perfume Oil, $31.50 from The Body Shop | Strawberry Feels Forever Massage Bar, $18.50 from Lush | Ultraviolet Bubble Bar, $12.90 from Lush | Renew Certified Organic Rosehip Oil, $22.99 from Skinfood | NV Chameleon Nail Polish Dainty to Diva, $7.99 from Mighty Ape | Yummy Mummy Body Conditioner, $39.90 from Lush | Yummy Mummy Shower Gel 250g, $22.50 from Lush
Stuck on what to get your mum, finances are a bit tight, or want to treat another hardworking mum? I want to help you! Thanks to my friends at Lush, I have a pack with some of their gorgeous Mother’s Day goodies to give away. Inside, you’ll find some Yummy Mummy Shower Gel and Body Conditioner, a Mother Superior Bubble Bar, a Rose Bombshell Bath Bomb and some Love You Mum Soap – talk about treats!
If you’d like to enter this giveaway, all you need to do is leave me a comment below to let me know the best piece of advice your mother ever gave you. I’ll pick my favourite submission as the winner, so make it a good one! Entries close at 11.59pm Thursday 30th April 2015, New Zealand residents only for this one please.
This giveaway is now closed, congratulations to our winner Chloe King.
Never trust a man who doesn’t drink coffee lol.
My Mum taught be to be accepting of others, she use to always tell us to “Never judge by appearance” turns out she was right! x I now teach my kids the same thing!
Always smile it’s the best beauty secret there is 🙂
Accept others for who they are
Be yourself.
The best piece of advice that my Mum gave me, was actually something easier said than done.
It was to love myself, to love who I am. It’s the best advice I’ve ever been given.
You are loveable and loved❤️
Best piece of advice my Mum taught me … “Everything happens for a reason.”
Lots of lovely things here, but that gorgeous NUDE brush set is lovely! I think we need one of those each! 🙂
Great advice! And oh man, I have great brushes and really don’t *need* more but I love those NUDE ones…
My Mum used to tell me “pick a guy who was good to his mother,
and he would show the same respect to you”
And she was right!
Treat everyone as you wish to be treated.
Mum was always good for little bits of advice, here and there. She used to say, I can’t wait till you have kids, then you can pass all the advice I give, onto them.
* Don’t let others tell you its hard, unacheiveable, unattainable or out of your reach, until you, ourself have attempted it. Try things yourself, don’t just rely on others to tell you.
* As long as the end product is the same, it doesn’t matter how you got there.. which really came in handy when I had my son by c-section. The amount of people that told me I had missed out on giving birth (not naturally), was enormous, for some reason, some people think that by having a c-section, you don’t bond with your child, you don’t feel that you have just done something amazing… but the end product is the same, you bring this amazing person into this world. It was such a amazing experience and not only that but a amazing story! 🙂
You’re not a product of your circumstances, you are a product of your decisions. (You can be whatever you want to be!)
“You don’t have to follow your siblings footsteps to be successful, and that we all take different paths to get where we need to go”. My mama believed in me even when I left school and went ‘off the rails’ a bit, knowing that I would do something with my life when I was good and ready.
A large one my mum alway taught me is Respect your elders and respect those whom respect you. 🙂
It sounds lame but ‘Be Nice’ I’m known to be a bit over honest, rather than polite. So before I meet new people, Mumma always reminds me to ‘be nice’ haha
The best advice my mum has given me was treat people how you want to be treated
Mum always told me not to worry about the housework too much. Have fun with the kids (5 year old twins) and the housework will get done when it’s good and ready 🙂
To believe in angels =)
you can do whatever you want as long as you pay for it yourself
I’ve never been really good at holding down a 9-5, Ive struggled to land well paid work as well for most of my working life. I am a writer, activist and an artist and often I work hospo and other insecure low paid work to support what I love. But four months ago I thought I had landed the job of my dreams: I was hired as the editor of a magazine – I ws being paid to write!!! But the job soon turned sour. My line-manager began to relentless harrass and bully me. I become incredibly depressed. Getting out of bed became a daily battle. My mum supported me throughout the whole entire horrible process, including, when I finally handed in my notice ‘cos I couldnt take anymore. It was devastating. I told my mum I’d had enough, that I couldn’t keep writing and trying to make a living out of what I loved any more, it was just to fucking hard. I told her I felt like a failure and like I had let her down. My mum sat me down and said to me,
“There is no failure in having the courage to walk away from something you wanted so badly, but it turned out to be the wrong fit for you. That takes courage and insight. I will always support you in what you love. I don’t care if you make money from it or not. Success is not defined by your pay check or some fancy job title. Success is defined by how many times you manage to get back up, when you are knocked down. You can’t give up, what you do is to important. And if you did give up you would never forgive yourself.”
Thank god for my mum whose advice always makes me get the fuck back up and who supports me in my ambitions to change the world through art, writing and activism – a seemingly impossible feat. But my mum makes me believe I can do it, even in my darkest hour.
The best advise my mum ever gave me was to never pick my friends due to their colour or body type, to not judge a person on their job or choices and to always love and value the beauty within the people I get on with and go threw life respecting people for who they are, not what they may have or look like to others, to cherish the positive memories/moments in life and let go of the negatives as you move on to a bright future.
My Mum use to always say, ‘We’re all different and how boring would it be if everyone was the same’. I always remember this and tend not to judge people on their appearance.
Thanks for running this giveaway. My mom told me that forgiveness doesn’t mean you forgot what that person did to you but that you’re going to love and treat them as though they never did it in the first place. Thanks for the chance to win this for my wonderful supermom who raised 11 children.
Every morning- before she goes to work- she would knock on the door to wake me up, say, “Bye Darl, I’m going to work, love you! Make the most of it!” She tells me, the older you get the faster time goes. Now I’m much older, I know it’s true. I wish as a teenager I listened to her more! Now I always make the most of my days… you never know what’s going to happen. She also always believes in kissing/hugging goodbye before you go out. If you don’t she gets mad and calls you! Mum is our community’s mum- lots of women hug her/ thank her on the street- she’s a wonderful midwife!
Travel – that way you understand that it is peoples minds, and not the world that is small.
Don’t let anyone tell me I’m worthless, because I’m not.
Best advice mums given me is … love like you have never beem hury before. I love my mum she deserves an awesome mothers day present
I came out (grew up in a religious family) she said ‘I know the church is backwards about this, but I know the most important thing in life is to be true to yourself and kind to others’ and then she thanked me for telling her and let my girlfriend come stay at our house.
My mum always used to say “a problem shared is a problem halved” which I think is great advice. Can’t keep everything bottled up and not tell anyone what’s going on.
Be yourself and do your best(whatever your best is at the time)
When I was about ten I complained to Mum that the girl next door had all the latest clothes AND she had her ears pierced. Why couldn’t I? Mum said “if you have everything now, what will you have to look forward to?”
I’ve often thought that rings true.
My mum always said to me “you’ll be alright”. And so far, it’s helped me keep my cool at work, not to stress when life gets too much and when I think something might be wrong, mums words help.
My Nana raised me so was Mum to me. She said to me if I am ever thinking about getting married to ask myself this question. Would I be happy to wash his socks by hand for the rest of my life, if the answer is no then don’t marry him! Okay so Nana passed away at 92 and I guess the whole hand washing thing was more relevant in her day but the idea was that if touching the guys socks grossed me out then it wasn’t meant to be!
The best advice my mum always told me was to be true to myself and deal honestly to everyone I meet, it’s easier to remember the truth instead of having to conjure up the memory of a lie.
My amazing Mum is always full of amazing advice and thats one of the reasons why she is my best friend! But i think the piece of advice that has stuck with me the most is everyone you meet is fighting some sort of battle that you know nothing about so be kind always. And its so true! This words always echo in my head!
My mother’s best advice was not to give a shit about what others said about me. To be completely and utterly happy with everything I did in life and to know that it was my best.
The best piece of advice my mum gave me was to always be myself, in all situations. The older I get the more I realise how important this advice was because there are so many situations in life where it can be difficult to always stand your ground, or be yourself. Thanks mum xoxo
Be kind, forgive but don’t forget, do the best you can at the time and when you know different change it, everyone makes mistakes – don’t beat yourself up for it! I have passed this onto my kids
Treat others as you would like to be treated
Being kind costs you nothing but being kind could be priceless – even if it is a stranger who is having a bad day.
Mum always said I didn’t need a man to make me happy and to look at my children’s faces as they bring unconditional love no matter how tough life can be. Was best advice still chugging along as any mum raising 3 kids can do.
“You won’t meet Mr Right at the pub Erin”
Treat others how you would like to be treated xx
love you for you, don’t change yourself to make yourself be loved by others
She always days fo me Your beautiful and talented don’t let anyone tell you otherwise xxx yes please
“There is no such thing as a silly question”
my mum always told me to never think I am better than anybody else, and to never look down on anybody.
My mum’s advice was – walk tall and look the world straight in the eye.
I was in a really terrible relationship but I felt stuck because I felt I was responsible for him (he didn’t work so I was stuck working my butt off to support him). Mum basically told me after yet another night of me crying about the awful way he treated me: “He is 30 years old – he doesn’t have to be your problem.” I guess the way she said it resonated with me and it clicked that I just needed to leave. She helped me pack up AND let me stay with her for a year while I got back on my feet. The best decision I’ve made for my mental health and I couldn’t have done it without her!
Best piece of advice to me was more like a warning… Wait till you have kids, then you’ll understand.