Memorable Gifts for Mom
Sweet personalized present ideas from Real Simple staffers and their friends.
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"A few years ago, my children gave me a basket of books from my reading list. The best part? A note promising to leave me
in peace (at least for a little while) so that I could enjoy them."
Suzanne Rust
New York City
"I created paper silhouettes of my family members and mounted them in simple Ikea frames. All you need is a profile photo,
tracing paper, black card stock, and a pretty background." (For easy-to-follow instructions, search “custom paper silhouettes”
on designspongeonline.com.)
PJ Mehaffey
New York City
"My favorite memories of my mom are from family vacations. So I marked a map with pushpins for each place that we had been
to. Now, every time we visit a new location, she adds a pin to the map."
Ashley Tate
Chatham, New Jersey
"I made a photo book on kodakgallery.com and featured pictures of my mom, my sister, and me at the same age. It’s amazing that we looked so alike!"
Jessica Lin
New York City
"When I was pregnant with my first child, my mother gave me a cookie jar filled with more than 100 glassine envelopes as
a Mother’s Day gift. Inside each envelope she had written a single memory of my childhood."
Kristen Jones Connell
New York City
"In high school, I loved photography. So I took a still-life picture of some of my mom’s things (her watch, glasses, journal)
and framed it. It was like taking a portrait of her but without her in it."
Jeremy Davies
Chatham, New Jersey
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