Since Mother’s Day is coming up I thought I would do a gift guide specifically for moms. I find that as I grow older, I end up buying my mom more useful gifts since those are the ones she seems to enjoy most. In fact, this angry asian girl wallet I own pretty much sums up my mom:

hehe, I love my mom! I hope that you’ll find something fitting for your mom in this list:

Breakfast In Bed Bath & Body Set for $30 - Not enough time to make your mom breakfast in bed? Just buy her this bath set, it’s the next best thing.

Sleekstor VeggieSteam for $10.99 - My mom’s a cook and I think this steamer would be so useful! You just stick it in a pot and steam your veggies away. It’s flexible enough to fit in a variety of pots and also dishwasher safe.

Sprinkles Cupcake Mix for $14 - These famous cupcakes come in chocolate, lemon, red velvet, or vanilla. Bake your mom a batch. MMMM!

Prepara Herb Saver for $29.95 - I hate when my herbs go bad before I finish using them. I know my mom would appreciate this. We’re viet….parsley and other herbs galore!

Deodorizing Refrigerator Egg for $16.50 - Is your mom as obsessed as my mom is with cleanliness? keep her fridge smelling good with this hitech gadget. She won’t have to keep replacing her box of baking soda since this lasts for months and can be renewed by just heating it up in the oven for 30 mins.

Mom and Me Photo Frame For $29 - How cute would it be to put an old picture of your mom and yourself in this frame??

Personalized m&ms (price varies on packaging but starts at $3.99) - Is your mom an M&M lover? How perfect would this be! Each time she eats one, she’ll think of you.

Pouch Mug for $11.50 - This is so convenient if you drink tea from a tea bag. Buy a box of her favorite tea and you got yourself a great gift!

Vacu Vin Wine Saver for $9.99 - ok, so your mom’s a wine drinker instead? This will help keep her bottles of wine fresher longer.

Uncooked Mother’s Day Card for $2.50 - I love these cards. All of their Mother’s and Father’s day cards are on sale for $2.50 too!

Or a more serious card for $2.75 - Love the colors!

I just found another website that sells samples, Simply Pink. Websites like these work like this: you pay a set price and they send you a box of samples. Simple, huh? You don’t really know what you’re going to get (sometimes they show you what you might possibly get though), it’s a surprise every time! It’s a great way to try new products you wouldn’t normally buy to see if you really like them. These particular samplers have 20-25 samples in them.

Each sampler is $22.50 including shipping and goes on sale every 3rd friday of the month.

Use coupon code DCBRANCH (excludes furniture and sale items) to get 25% off at Branch. Shop at Branch knowing each item is environmentally friendly! Click on the image for links to each item.

This store has SO many great gift items and I would never have heard about it if it weren’t for reader Kimberly writing in to tell me about WeeCanShop!! I had such a hard time picking an item but I finally settled on this tree necklace because I’ve never seen it anywhere else. What a cool idea…necklaces made from vinyl records! It also comes in other shapes as well.

$16.99 at WeeCanShop

I love bobby pins. I usually just wear the black ones though. Here are some unique looking bobby pins from a reader suggested store, Peggy Li!

On sale for $12 at Peggy Li. Be sure to check out the rest of her store which carries items that were featured in Grey’s Anatomy and famous magazines like Vogue and Lucky!

Get 20% off everything at See Jane Work with coupon code DOMINO. Here are my picks (can you tell I’m loving making these Polyvore collages? As always, you can click on the picture and it will take you to the Polyvore website which will link to each item at the store!)

My favorite items are those cat and dog staple free staplers. So cute!!

This is a great gift for the cook in your life. (hey mother’s day is coming up!) If you’ve ever cooked a dinner party and had to keep track of multiple things on the stove/oven/grill/etc, you’ll need this cool timer! It lets you keep track of 3 different times including a 20 minute timer and 2 60 minute timers.

On sale now for only $1.99 at Graveyard Mall ($6.99 for shipping though but still a good deal)

There’s free shipping at Fred Flare all weekend with coupon code butterfly on purchases of $20 or more. That saves you $7.95 on your order! Here are my picks:

From left to right: cute as a button sewing kit $9, flowers in a can $10, kappa measuring cup and juicer $14, devil grater $20, zipits zipper pulls set of 2 $8, smooth skin face friends set of 2 $12

Jacy wrote in to tell me about her online shop Poppy:

Poppy is a contemporary lifestyle boutique filled with an eclectic mix of women’s clothing, accessories, candles, apothecary, gifts, books, baby and much more.

They carry a unique blend of current trends and modern basics, always adding fun, unpredictable “must haves” along the way.

While browsing around, I found this Happiness Candle that I think would make a great gift!

$22 at Poppy and use coupon code Poppy10 to get 10% off anything in the store! Thanks Jacy!

OMG. I need this!!!!

One of the cutest robot items I’ve seen lately.

Only $9.99 at ThinkGeek (found via Rare Bird Finds)