This cool opener can open anything from ketchup bottles to regular jars, beer bottles, and even cans of tuna. What a useful kitchen gadget!

$7.95 from Crate and Barrel

In the past year, I really got into drinking hot tea. YUM! Check out this berry fruity fruit tea. It contains apple pieces, black currants, natural flavoring, freeze-dried blackberry, strawberry, and raspberry pieces and wild strawberry leaves. I can only imagine how this smells when it’s brewing!

1.75 oz tube for $9.00 at herb + ginger

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!

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 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

Finally a Trader Joe’s cookbook! I love Trader Joe’s. Their food is cheap, healthy, and so convenient! Now there is a cookbook using all TJ’s ingredients.

Use coupon code SLASH5 to get $5 off here.

Over the past year, I’ve been obsessing over bento boxes and accessories. I especially love these animal shaped sauce bottles that you can put soy sauce or other sauces in! So cute!!

$3.50 at I Love Obento

Nancy from HeresToGoodWomen.com wrote in to tell me about their shop. Browsing around, I found this beautiful orchid platter. (I have an affinity for orchids). Check out her shop for other unique items.

$20 at Here’s To Good Women

She also told me they have a form to nominate “good women” which they will feature on their website. It’s nice to receive some recognition every once in awhile so fill out this form and nominate the women that inspire you! Thanks Nancy!

This is one of the cutest aprons I’ve seen. You can customize it with whatever fabric you’d like with this apron pattern.

$11.95 at Montessori By Hand (be sure to check out the site for other awesome patterns)