Hey Lovely Peeps! I have an idea!
Lets kick it up a notch and make this the year you totally WOW your Mom with your thoughtfulness and cleverness. Mother’s Day is Sunday 13 May. And let’s admit it, we all want to bask in the golden glow of Mom’s delight! So, we have five amazing Mother’s Day gift ideas. Here they are:
- Create a beautiful rose and vanilla sugar scrub
- Bake some delicious shortbread (or sugar) teabag cookies
- Create a herbal tea garden kit for Mom
- Create a beautiful message in a card, and craft your own matching envelope
- Print and frame a beautiful Mother’s Day poem
She’ll be wowed, I know she will. She’ll feel special and wonderful. Mission accomplished, yay! Check out the visuals!
Vanilla Rose Sugar Scrub
These cute labels are editable – and you get the recipe too! Plus, its really easy to make, but oh so impressive
Bake some delicious shortbread (or sugar) teabag cookies
Then go for a whirl in the kitchen, where you can make these super cute shortbread or sugar teabag cookies for dunking, with a gorgeous editable label for your tin, and cute tags for your cookies. And, because you are one of our blog readers, you can grab the full recipe at the end of this post. So cute, cookies you can dunk into your tea, you’ll definitely be the favorite child!
Craft a herbal tea garden kit for Mom
Inspire Mom to grow her own fragrant herbal tea garden with these super-pretty, editable labels for your seeds. Pop out to your local nursery or convenience store and grab some seeds for herbs that you know your Mom would love to grow. Creating a herbal tea garden is very therapeutic, and also has culinary and medicinal benefits. Not to mention, the fragrances are amazing! Use the gorgeous, editable labels to label each seed pocket or pop onto sticks to identify the seeds once sown.
Create a beautiful message in a card, and craft your own matching envelope
Write your own message on this beautiful, editable card and craft a matching envelope with these templates and gorgeous paper designs. The awesome Mother’s Day card and envelope set has three envelope templates and three papers, in salmon quatrefoil, olive green diagonal stripe and a stunning watercolor floral. Best of all, it includes a card with editable text for you to personalize for your special Mama.
Print and frame a beautiful Mother’s Day poem
Beautiful, precious mothers! Show your Mom how very much she means to you and present her with this lovely poster. With soft salmon pastel flowers and beautiful greens. The poem speaks of the one who bears the sweetest name, the greatest friend you’ll ever have – it’s sure to make her feel as special as she truly is!
So there it is – all the special Mother’s Day gifts to give YOUR Mom, or maybe a nudge and a wink in the right direction if YOU would like to receive one of these awesome gifts! And don’t forget to tell your Mom how very much you love her on Mother’s Day!
Oh, I almost forgot! Must be the many nights of tending to sick children I’ve been doing recently! Mom’s job is never done! Here is the shortbread teabag cookie recipe! Enjoy! And don’t forget to pin the ideas you love to your boards!
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Shortbread Teabag Cookies
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 24 cookies 1x
Description
Delicious shortbread biscuits that are made even cuter in a teabag shape with a string and pretty teabag label – perfect for dipping!
Ingredients
- 250g butter, at room temp.
- 300g caster sugar
- 2 XL eggs
- 620g cake flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1–2 TBS milk, (if needed)
- 1/2 cup melted chocolate
Instructions
- Cream together the butter and sugar
- Add the eggs, one at a time, beating on low speed.
- Add the vanilla.
- Sift in the flour and salt. Mix until just clumping,
- If the dough seems too crumbly add a dash of milk
- Form into a ball by hand. Place in cling-wrap, and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
- Roll-out and cut out cookies into teabag shape on a surface dusted with corn flour.
- Pierce a hole for the teabag string – a straw makes the perfect size.
- Bake at 180’C for 8-10 minutes until the edges are just starting to turn golden.
- Decorate by dipping 1/3 into melted chocolate when completely cool.
- String your pretty teabag tag through the hole you made with a straw
- Pop into the beautiful (labelled!) tin or jar for Mom!
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
