It’s that time of year again where the sun comes out and we celebrate all of our amazing moms and mother figures in our lives!
While we should celebrate this amazing woman in our life everyday, and the queens who take on the mother roles, this one day is just for them and we want to help make it extra special, while still supporting local Alberta-based businesses.
Check out the Mother’s Day Gift Guide that will be sure to make your mom smile this Mother’s Day!
Wearable Gifts
J. Vair Anderson Jewellers is Calgary’s luxury jeweller and watch retailer. They also do custom design and have a large selection of coloured stones, and offers repairs and appraisals too!
Get your mom a unique and beautiful piece she’ll never want to take off!
Delicious Eats & Treats
Your Mother’s Day plans are here! On Sunday May 8, La Belle Graze is hosting a beautiful event with a little bit of wine, a little bit of charcuterie, and a lot of amazing memories for you and mom.
Learn how to build a charcuterie board to bring home with you , get some photos snapped by Ease Photography , and sip through a guided wine tasting from the experts at Willow Park Wines!
WHERE: Venue 308, 308 11 Avenue Southeast, Calgary, Canada
WHEN: Sunday May 8th, 1:30pm – 4pm
Get your tickets via the link here
Experiences
Massage Heights
All moms deserve a little pampering! Massage Heights offers a membership-based wellness and massage centre that is catered to your every need.
They’re currently offering 60 minute massages for $99.99 +GST for Mother’s Day!
FIND THEM IN CALGARY AND EDMONTON.
Click to see all the options and get your mom the best this year.
Not all moms are wine drinkers, some are beer lovers! If you have a beer loving mom send her and her friends (or dad if you must) to the Calgary International Beerfest happening in Calgary May 6 & 7, 2022. With 700+ beers from 200+ breweries she is bound to find something she likes!
Florals & Food
Not only does Amborella have the most beautiful flower arrangements but they are offering a amazing Mother’s Day Wine & Design Workshop on May 6th, 2022.
Amborella Floral is teaming up with Calgary’s own, City & Country Winery to offer your mom an evening of fun. The experience includes wine tastings from City & Country, and your own mason jar floral arrangement.
THE DETAILS:
When: May 6 2022
Where: 544 38a Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 1X4
Cost: $95/ person
Start time: 7 pm *doors open at 6 pm
Tickets: Click here
If you haven’t tried Chunk’d Cookies, you are truly missing out on a delightfully sweet and explosive experience. This is the best gift for the person in your life with a sweet tooth. They have epic seasonal cookie flavours, including The Ruby (made with a Bailey’s brownie cookie dough, and a Bailey’s truffle on the top), is to die for.
Pasta La Mano is a local pasta concept, with a location in the First Street Market, and also with an online store!
The perfect gift for your favourite pasta-loving person (who deserves a break from cooking) is without a doubt, the Pasta La Mano Pasta Club, or even better yet, the Pasta + Wine Club!! For $30 or $60/month, you can have handcrafted, fresh pasta (enough for 2 people!) delivered to your front door, with a housemade, from-scratch sauce, and a paired wine!
We all love delicious and fluffy cupcakes! Grab a dozen for mom, and another for yourself!
Order online, or head into one of their YYC locations to get the goods!
jco wrapology is our favourite local online candy store! Not only do they ship across Canada, but they perfectly curate and design the most beautiful (and yummy) candy boxes, for every holiday.
What mom or special lady in your life doesn’t love some candy!?
Self-Care Gifts
Routine Cream was born in Calgary, and keeps us Calgarians smelling incredible with their natural, vegan, allergen free body care products! From deodorant to hair and body care, to scented candles, you can mix and match scents, or even match your deodorant to your candles! This is a great gift for anyone who could use a little extra self care.
Click here to shop their incredible products online, or here to find the closest location you can shop and sniff in person!
This Metis + female-owned local business creates the most incredible scented candles, diffuser blends, perfume, room sprays and more. These are all great stocking stuffer items, or thoughtful gifts for anyone on your shopping list!
Shop online here, or click here to see where you can shop in-store!
Give the gift of stillness in your mom’s busy life.
The incredible sensory deprivation tanks at Clear Float Spa give an inexplicable sense of calm and stillness that is the best gift for anyone on your list that may be dealing with stress or who could use some peace and quiet.
Add some local essentials to your mom’s self care routine, with some Rocky Mountain Soap Co. goodies!
Their bath bombs are great for any self-care Sunday warriors, and there have a wonderful, natural, kids and baby collection for any new-parents!
Shop online here, or click here to see where you can buy!
Games & Puzzles
The datenight game
Did you know that we now have a game?
Welcome datenight into your homes and bring us along for your date nights with our all-new card game, created to help make relationships better through connection, adventure and experience.
Use code DATENIGHT for free shipping!
StumpCraft Puzzles
The absolute perfect gift for the puzzle-loving mom in your life. StumpCraft makes the most beautiful and undoubtedly unique wooden jigsaw puzzles around. Each puzzle includes recognizable shapes unlike any puzzle pieces you have ever seen, and they incorporate special designs within the puzzle image.
Home Goods
Does mom treat her plants like her extended children? Plantsie houseplants are beautiful, healthy and come with personalizable names, phrases and pots, to add to her collection of babies.
From Tree to Sea is your one-stop shop for incredibly stunning ceramic pieces. These beautiful, quirky mugs, tumblers and natural vases sell quickly after each release, but are worth the hunt (and the wait) for these gorgeous functional art pieces!
Andrew Glazebrook
Kitchenware doesn’t have to be just functional, it can also be beautiful! Andrew Glazebrook uses his woodworking talent to create unique spatulas and rolling pins that are crying to not be hidden in a kitchen drawer! For the chef or baker in your life, gift them something they will be excited to use everyday!
Rebecca Maher is a Calgary-based glass artist, who makes stunning pieces that are sure to wow whoever you purchase them for! From mountain scapes, to butterflies, flowers, feathers and more, each piece is made unique and one-of-a-kind, and will shine gorgeous colours when the sun hits.
Happy Shopping, YYC! Please do let us know if we are missing any of your favourite locally made goods for this 2022 Calgary Mother’s Day Gift Guide!
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