If you know a mom who is a member of a book club, this very cool Book Club Organizer is the perfect Mother’s Day gift! Not only is there space for book lists, group contact information and notes on the current reading selection, but is also includes very hip rating stickers, book plates, book marks and even pockets for clippings of interesting book reviews.

$18.95 Book Club Organizer

If you love to read, why not go the extra mile and start your own book club this year? Enlist a few moms (or dads!) you know and gift them each with a Book Club Organizer. Happy reading!

‘Nuff said…..

$20 at Hippy Chix (I already ordered mine)

There are so many amazing, hand-stamped silver jewelry pieces on Etsy by so many talented artists. Seattle-based BirthDesigns is one of my favorites. I love hand-stamped silver because there are so many options for personalization - some of the best, I think, are children’s names & birthdates or personal messages. Perfect for Mom, Grandma, and especially the wife! (Um, hint hint to my husband…) Plus this artist offers font choices and a very wide variety of jewelry choices - necklaces, bracelets, earrings, charms, jewelry for kids and even men too.

So go see for yourself! And be sure to order soon… they’re still taking orders for Mother’s day, but can’t guarantee shipping dates (unless maybe you upgrade to faster shipping).

Looking for a unique gift for Mom this Mother’s Day?

I love the gift baskets from Global Exchange, each of which is made up of goodies from fair trade artisans from all over the world, and stuffed into a handmade basket that can be used again and again.

This Mother’s Day Gift Basket contains fair trade dark and milk chocolate, Code Pink tea, a handmade Tunisian mug, a Bolivian banana leaf gift box, bath bags, and a Chinese garden-in-a-can, all inside a Kaisa grass basket from Bangladesh.

Their other gift baskets are equally cool & unique. My other top picks are the New Mom
and Chocolate Lover’s (yum!) baskets. And don’t forget that maybe the best thing about these baskets is that they’re fair trade, so your purchase helps less fortunate people around the world earn a fair wage and support their families.

Also be sure to check out Global Exchange’s selection of fair trade coffee - always a great treat for any coffee lover. You could even pair it with one of their handmade mugs for a quick & thoughtful gift.

Global Exchange Gift Baskets - from $54.

Mother’s Day is May 11 this year and it’s coming up fast! One of the best things about Mother’s Day - besides that Mother of the Year Award I’m working on - is finding great little gifts for all my Mommy friends…it’s a great excuse to reward all the moms you know with something special just for them.

The perfect little gift this year? How ’bout the wonderful products over at Body & Mind Time…this stuff is great and I’m raving about it! Body scrub, bath salts, linen spray, bath oils and foot scrub are some of the delicious items that make perfect Mother’s Day gifts.

And the best part? These products are ALL NATURAL…that’s right, no nasty additives or synthetic yuck in there. Instead, they use pure essential oils to create magical scent combinations like Lavender-Chamomile-Orange (this scent lulls my infant daughter to sleep almost immediately — Happy Mom’s Day to me!) or Lavender-Geranium…yum. These products are individually hand-made, not mass-produced and because they use only ingredients found in nature, everything from Body & Mind Time is 100% safe for moms and babies.

So give a mommy the gift of indulgence, something just for her to enjoy this year. Body & Mind Time offers affordable individual products — may I recommend their linen spray? I just LOVE linen spray! — or beautifully packaged gift baskets designed to pamper. It’s a simple, yet effective way to show someone you appreciate all they do.