Surprisingly, 30% of the mothers in the survey were seeking smartphones and tablets compared to say clothing and other accessories.

One note before we continue. Sometimes you shouldn’t rely on surveys to choose what’s best. If you find yourself saying, “I bet my mother wouldn’t want a spa day,” or, “she’s probably not into that weird touch pad thing-a-ma-bob,” you’re probably right.

I bet most of you already have an idea of what your mother likes, so the following gifts should be used as a starting point for the perfect gift.

Really Great Mother’s Day Gifts 2012

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Have you ever given socks, anti wrinkle cream, Easter candy, toilet essentials, lingerie, vacuums, or Cuban cigars for mother’s day? According to surveys, you’ve just given her one of the worst mother’s day gifts. While socks will always make a terrible gift regardless of how much love you put (or so I’ve learned), there are gifts that a majority of mother’s agree on. In fact, that’s how started our list of 10 really great mother’s day presents.

So how did we create this list? Well, we started by finding surveys about mothers as well as scouring the internet for popular ideas. Next we had our editors sit down and decide which among them was the most popular, most affordable, and didn’t require any advanced skills. At the end of the day, we came down to 10 homemade gift ideas along with some valuable sites and instructions to accompany them.

In the next article, we’ll be looking at what to buy for mother’s day.

The following is a list of the 10 best homemade mother’s day gifts. Each item on the list is linked to a website which has instructions and details for making them.

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Herbal Bath and Shower Bag

We suggest making a shower bag (at the bottom of the article) as well as making the following herbal bath teas: Lavender Oatmeal/Oatmeal Milk, Lavender Chamomile Soak, Herbal Splendor, and Soother Soak.

Flower Bouquet

The flower bouquet gift can be expensive depending on what types of flowers you buy. If money is a problem, consider finding a location with great wild flowers. This gift also has variations. We found some other creative ideas, which involved making flower out of wood and paper and then placing cute images on the head of the flower. Click here to see a great example.

Cupcakes

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While we did not include a recipe, we thought you could help us help you by going on line and searching for some of your mother’s favorite flavors. Our editors wanted to show you a video about professionally designing your cupcake to have flowers on it. We enjoyed watching this and then attempting to make cupcakes with nice flower patterns on top. We do say that the lady makes it seem too easy.

Bath Soaks

Here you will find a bunch of different types of bath soaks you can make. Among our tests, we found the most pleasant included: Cinnamon, Herbal, Almond Honey, and Lavender to both feel and smell the best. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to give your mother an assortment of these because they are pretty easy to make.

Candy Gift Box

The link shows you how to make chocolate candy peanut butter balls. You can also make a variety of different chocolate treats, and there are tons of recipes online. A simple Google search will land you chocolates galore, but if you’re too lazy to make them, consider buying your mother’s favorite candies and putting them in a beautiful box. Of course, you don’t have to make the box, but there are plenty of instructions online of all kinds of boxes.

Personalized Photo Album

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This present probably doesn’t need much explanation. With anything, the sky’s the limit, so you can put your creativity to test. The video is a cheap solution for those who can’t afford the album. There are other valuable websites online, but making an album requires lots of work. We suggest buying and album and adding your own unique and creative touches inside the album, such as custom tags next to images or adding small pictures you’ve drawn to accompany the photos.

Scented Candles

Making candles can be easy if you find kits online, but when  you start to make scented candles, you’re in a new ball game. When you make scented candles or custom candles, there are tons of different materials you can use. What we found most frustrating when making candles was trying to find out how to transform our natural materials into scents. If you can find instructions online, we suggest using natural materials, but if all else fails, you can use fragrance oils for whatever scent you like.

Nourishing Sugar Scrub

Originally, we did not believe the use of this product. Most beauty products, especially lotions you buy from the store, come with a range of different ingredients as well as chemicals to improve your skin. But when comparing this sugar scrub to those lotions, we found the effects of the sugar scrub were pretty great. While it probably does not aid as much as medicated lotions, we think the sugar scrub did an excellent job at improving dry skin. In fact, we will probably be making this one for our families.

Love Jar

Among the list, the love jar is both the easiest and most affordable gift to make. To make this an even more special mother’s day, this gift works well along with one of the other gifts in this article, just like a sweet mother’s day card.

Bubble Bath in a Jar

Last but not least, bubbles! The link provides some examples of how to make different scents for bubble baths. What sells your homemade bubble bath will be how special and unique the jar holding the bubble bath solution will be. We’re so serious about this statement that we’ve included a really nice example of a classy bubble bath jar made from frosted glass. This example isn’t for mother’s day, but you can always make up your own label.

If you liked our homemade mother’s day gifts, you’ll like our next article on mother’s day items you can buy.

Please give credit to http://www.123greetings.com/ and http://www.bluemountain.com/ as well as their authors for the amazing quotes.

By miles you are far away. In my thoughts you are close. In my heart you are always with me. Happy Mother’s Day

Wishing you a mother’s day as warm as your smile…As happy as your heart…And as special as you are… Filled with many happy moments to cherish… Happy Mother’s Day

Some moms rock, some moms rule, Some moms are great, some moms are cool, some moms are silly, some moms are fun. You’re all of that, rolled into one! Happy Mother’s Day

This warm and heartfelt greeting… Comes across the miles today… To let you know you’re thought of… In a very special way.

This comes to wish you all the job. That motherhood has brought. And then to let you know again. You’re very close in thought.

There are so many things I want to thank you for. Sometimes it’s your warm and caring ways. Or the love you shower, that keeps me smiling always… Your comforting words… Your guidance and support. There are so many reasons to be thankful to you. That I can’t simply stop!

You have the strength and calm of mountains. Your love is as deep as the ocean. Your smile is as bright as a daisy. Mother’s day is the perfect time… to celebrate a beautiful woman and a mother called You! Happy Mother’s Day!

Moms are always there for you. Moms shape lives and inspire dreams. Moms are the heart of the family.

There’s a certain wisdom, a deep sensitivity and an indescribable capacity to love… that a woman acquires at the moment she becomes someone’s mother. It’s a beautiful thing and a miracle to behold. Happy Mother’s Day to a wonderful woman who’s an extraordinary mother.

God gave the world stars, and there was Beauty. God gave the world sun, and there was Warmth. God gave the world rain, and there was Life. God gave the world mothers, and there was Love. Thank you for being such a beautiful blessing in my life. Happy Mother’s…

Note: Some of these end with Happy Mother’s Day, but I did not include them.

If you’re having trouble finding a card or just need ideas for what kind of great mother’s day cards are out there, you’ll enjoy looking over our editors choice collection of cards.

If you liked this article, we know you’ll love this one: 10 Really Great Homemade Mother’s Day Gifts and 45 items to buy on mother’s day.

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As months went on, the girlfriend began to get anxious and frustrated with her boyfriend as she felt no love. Inside, she would try to tell herself to lower her expectations of love, but she soon began to get tired with her boyfriend because he just didn’t understand. She couldn’t take it any longer, so the next day she told her boyfriend, “I want to break up!”

“Why would you want that?” he replied in shock.

“It’s the same reason and same thing I’ve always wanted. You aren’t making me happy,” she responded in disappointment.

For the next few hours, the boyfriend remained quiet and calm, thinking about all the things she had told him before. She thought to herself, I bet he still doesn’t even want to show me any love even when I’m about to break up with him.

Eventually he asked, “So what can I do to make it work?”

She thought to herself, “there’s nothing I can do to change him. He’d probably just do what works for a short time and then go back to his same old unromantic ways. Then again he did ask what he can do to make it work out. I’ll give him one chance.”

Staring deep into his eyes, she answered, “If you can answer this question correctly and convince me to change my heart, then I will give you one more chance. Here is the question:

If there was a special ice cream at only one store, but you knew that getting this ice cream would cause you to die, would you still get it for me?”

He said, “Let me think about it and tell you tomorrow.”

The next day she woke up and saw a long letter on the table in his terrible handwriting underneath a spoon. It read.

Dear Babe,

I WOULD NOT GET YOU THAT ICE CREAM. PLEASE LET ME EXPLAIN MY REASONING.

Already she began to feel sad and empty.

“Whenever you wake up in the morning and I leave the apartment, you get lonely and miss me as I walk to school. I have to save my lips so that I can kiss you goodbye.

You love to come over everyday after class and eat my delicious food. I’m afraid if I stop cooking for you, you won’t eat properly and resort to eating ramen. So I have to save my hands so I can cook you the best thing in the world.

Whenever your tummy hurts from that time of the of the month, I have to save my palms so that I can calm the cramps in your tummy.

You always have a hard time thinking about where to go or where to eat, and I worry that you might never be able to find a good place to eat. I have to save my brain in order to help you decide on the next place to go.

Every night before you sleep, your feet get terribly cold. I don’t want you to die from frostbitten toes, so I need to save my feet to warm your toes up.

You always look at movies and watch shows on the computer and television, and it does no good to your eyes. Right now, I have to save my eyes so that I can tell you where your pimples are. That way you won’t have to worry about other people noticing and laughing. When you get older with me, I have to save my eyes so that I can pick out your white hair and help clip your toenails. So I can walk on the beach with you and always tell you how cute you are just like the little crabs we used to find in the sand.

Therefore, my dear, if I cannot find someone else who loves you more than I do, I cannot die to get your ice cream.”

Her tears fell on the letter and she continued to read.

“Now that you are done reading, I am standing outside with your favorite ice cream flavor. This time, I survived to give it to you.”

Love Box from WildWoodWizard (Etsy)

Ever realized how the best relationship gifts come from girls? Most guys, including myself, fail to pick great relationship gifts because we do only what we’ve learned to do.

Go to the mall, find something that looks nice and pull out the credit card.

I’ll admit, sometimes she’s dying for that new dress to complete her wardrobe, but girlfriends love it ten times more when boyfriends make creative gifts.

To help fellow men woo their women, the following is set of amazing small gifts to make her feel special.

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The Thought Box

Start with a small wooden box that women can place jewelry or precious items in. If you can’t make one, I won’t get angry if you buy one.

Next and most important step is to think of things you’ve learned about her, such as her love for ice cream, bunnies, cute piglets, etc and put them into the box.

When you give her the gift, don’t forget to tell her what each thought object means and how she matters so much to you.

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The Love Chest

A modification of the thought box, the Love Chest requires you to make or find a special box along with a lock and key. If you can find a wooden box almost like a mini pirates chest, that would be ideal because the box must look and feel like it has treasure.

Inside the chest, place some red cloth material and wrap pictures and memorable items inside. After placing the items inside, hide the box somewhere secretive in your house or living area where she won’t find it unless she searches hard.

I find the best way to make it feel like a treasure hunt is to place post-it notes, leading her to the treasure.

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The Love Jar

This one’s pretty simple. Find a nice looking jar and some small chocolates you can fill it with. Before filling the chocolates, write down on small pieces of a paper a bunch of things you love about her or loving moments between you.

You can even throw photos in there if it can fit. After you’re done, place chocolates in a handful at a time and make sure to separate the messages. That way as she eats The Love Jar’s contents she can get a special message to read.

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Bacon Surprise

I’m sorry to disappoint you, but there’s no bacon involved. However, you’ll still need to find some pork, or a piggy bank. If you can make a piggy bank, thumbs up to you.

For this gift to work, you will need lots of time to write down maybe 45 or more things that you love about your girlfriend.

Next, cut out a bunch of paper coins using gold or yellow paper and write down each of these 45 words or phrases.

Lastly, fill the piggy bank with your coins and gift wrap it to surprise her with your very own bacon surprise!

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1. Ruby and Heart Necklace for her

2. Oval Ruby Ring for her

3. Ruby with Micropave Diamonds for her

4. Dragon Motif Charm for her

5. BVLGARI sassi acetate sunglasses for her

6. BVLGARI wallet for him

7. BVLGARI Chandra shoulderbag for her

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9.  14k Yellow Gold Created Ruby Heart Devil Pendant for her

10. Lab Ruby Men’s Rings 14K White Gold Lab

11. New Solid 14k Yellow Gold Mens Large Fashion Ruby Ring