Making a Mother's Day Gift Basket

This is a guide about making a Mother's Day Gift Basket. Gift baskets filled with useful and beautiful small items are a great present idea for the Mom who has everything.

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Toiletries Gift Bag For Mother's Day

My mother will be 75 in June, and it is hard to buy for her because she is content with the simple things in life so I decided to buy her a supply of body wash, shampoo, deodorant, air freshener,and also some sweets, etc. I put them all in a big gift bag and I have already given it to her. She was so excited. She appreciated it because she knows these things take a lot of her small income away. And if she sees something later that she would like, she will have money to buy it.

By kredenna from Springtown

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Craft Project: Victorian Mother's Day Gift Basket

These darling baskets are so beautiful and bring a certain air of Victorian times to your crafting. A very nice gift for someone special who adores the Victorian Era. It takes a bit of time yet it is such an enjoyable piece of history and has that special air of freshness.

Approximate Time: 2 hours

Supplies:

printed fabric of a favorite color (just scraps)
1 round yogurt container (clear)
1 small cup from powdered drink mix
1 white container top off of cake icing
lace in 2 sizes and colors
ribbon
spray adhesive
2 chenille sticks.
other embellishments

Instructions:

Please read all directions before starting.

Cut around the lip of the icing top and discard.
Take the clear yogurt cup and draw a circle around the center of the cake icing top. (This will fit over your yogurt container to make a lip) Cut around it and lay aside.
Next take the small drink mix cup and hot glue it upside down to the bottom of the yogurt container.
Take material larger than the two pieces you just hot glued together and make a pattern for the top.
Using spray adhesive spray the top and lay the fabric on it. (If it isn't neat don't worry you won't see much of it anyway.)
Next take 2 chenille sticks any color and twist them together. Then overlay with ribbon. Lay aside.
Spray the two pieces you have hot glued with the adhesive and gently roll onto the fabric, covering the outside and leaving a bit of room to tuck the fabric into the top of the inside. Tuck the inside edge down into the top of the container and under the bottom of the container. Hot glue if necessary to keep in place.
Now hot glue your handle (chenille sticks covered with ribbon) onto the top edge of each side of the fabric covered cups. Gently work the top edge you made with the icing top onto the containers working your way up to the top. Pull as close to the top as possible. If the handle gets in the way just put a small notch into each side and slip upward. Now slip it back down and bead some hot glue around the top and push it back up to fit snugly.
Take some lace and and use a needle and thread to run a gathering stitch all the way through it.
(If you have gathered lace it would be easier to use and you can skip this step.) Next take a contrasting color of lace and make gathers with it as well. (Again, gathered lace is a time saver.)
Hot glue the first lace to the edges of the basket lip and to the bottom at the beginning of the drink mix cup. Take your contrasting colored lace (the smaller piece) and add it over the top of the first piece of lace.
Hot glue into place using glue sparingly.
You should now have 2 pieces of lace on top of each other on the top and around the bottom area.
(Refer to pictures for help.)
Now take whatever embellishments you have and begin decorating the basket.

The wonderful thing about this basket is you can use any color scheme and achieve a beautiful basket.
The embellishments really finish the item off and make it stand out from the norm.

(My embellishments were simple, but they achieved the look I wanted.)
Take white lace and gather it. Make 2 of these.
Add 2 small rosebuds to the center of each round piece of lace.
Decorate sides of basket with pearl inlaid buttons. On each side of the handle I added some ribbon and a tiny pink bow with a pearl bead to the center.

By Gem from VA

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Mother's Day Tea Basket With Flavored Sugars

One of the nicest things we can do for our moms is pamper them. Here is a nice way to pamper that tea lover in your life. The best part is it won't cost you very much but will be very appreciated. This is a thrifty gift and, best of all, is in the theme of reuse, recycle, repurpose.

1 basket or very large coffee cup
miscellaneous tea bags (I suggest Celestial Seasonings teas)
flavored or colored sugar
2 small plastic bags
1 trashy romance Novel
1 pretty tea cup and saucer
1 pretty teaspoon
silk roses
baby's breath
Ribbon or a bow

There are two ways you can do this. One is a basket and the other is to fill one of those large coffee cups with the things you want to put in. Teacups can be found at your local thrift store as well as silver or pretty teaspoons.

You are going to put the sugar and tea bags in the plastic bags but you might even find a pretty jar to put it in at your local thrift store. In a pinch, a small jar recycled from bullion or baby food could be recycled with a small bit of lace put around the top. On thrifty fun, there is an article about reusing old tins. The directions would be the same for painting the lid of the jar before you hot glue on the lace.

If your Mom is not into trashy romance novels, check out the used bookstore, garage sales or church sales for a more appropriate book.

First fill your basket with shredded paper from your shredder. Now nestle your items in. Tuck in the silk flowers and babies breath. Add a bow or ribbons to the handle.

Flavored Sugars

Colored Sugar

1 drop of food coloring in her favorite color
1/2 cup of sugar

Stir the food coloring into the sugar until shade desired.

Lemon Sugar

3 lemons
2 cups sugar

Zest the lemons using a citrus zester. Roughly chop lemon zest. In a food processor, add 1 cup of the sugar and all the lemon zest. Pulse for a few minutes until the zest has been finely ground. Add the rest of the sugar and toss until well mixed. Store in a sealed, airtight container and use as needed. Refrigerate until used.

Tip for the citrus sugars: Grate the peel from all the lemons, oranges, limes, grapefruits (whatever citrus fruit you use) as you eat them. Make into sugar immediately and store it for future use.

Lavender and Vanilla Sugar

This one is a make ahead recipe

4 cups sugar
2 herb bags each filled with 2 Tbsp. fresh lavender flowers (These can be bought at your local health food store)
1 vanilla bean or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Pour sugar into an airtight container. Chop vanilla bean into a few pieces and stir into sugar or thoroughly mix in the vanilla extract. Place one herb bag towards the bottom of sugar and the other towards the top. Seal and store in airtight container. Begin to use after a few weeks.

Rose Petal Sugar

Please make sure these are roses from your own garden or have been certified at the flower shop to be pesticide free.

1 cup sugar
2 cups rose petals

Put rose petals in chopper, Food processor or blend and chop until fine. Add sugar and pulse one or two seconds until well mixed. Store in airtight container

By Debra Frick

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Making Mother's Day Gift Baskets

I sell candles, votives and body products and would like to make up some baskets for Mother's Day, birthdays, etc. Can someone give me ideas, as to what to put in a basket? Do you only use baskets and where do you get them? Do you wrap them in cellophane? I have never done this before, but would like to try my hand at it.

Thanks for your help!
Mary Bachert from Ontario, Canada

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By moonflower (Guest Post)05/09/2006

I'm making gift baskets for my two sisters and my Mom for Mother's Day. I found some recipes for "gift jar" hot chocolate and tea mixes. I will put in a couple of those, some homemade muffins, homemade butter spread and a couple of candles. I purchased baskets at a second-hand store for $1 a piece and I will decorate those. The possibilities are endless when it comes to gift baskets! I,m also going to include a few fresh flowers.