This is a gift guide for the mothers who are impossible to buy for in the best possible way. The ones with considered homes, thriving gardens, and kitchens that actually get used. We've paired our favourite product picks with courses from some of the most respected names in design, cooking, and gardening.
Gifts for the host who loves a dinner party
Hosting is an art form, and the mums who have mastered it know that the details are everything. From the tablecloth to the candlelight, every element plays its part.
Design Interiors for Entertaining with Amanda Lindroth, $170
This is the perfect course for the person in your life who lives for her next hosting opportunity. Amanda is known for her iconic Island-inspired interiors that have become a staple in homes and hotels along the southern coasts. In her Create Academy course, Design Interiors for Entertaining, she teaches you how she creates inviting interiors with hosting in mind. Amanda takes you from planning an empty room through to sourcing materials, setting a stunning table, and creating a guest room your visitors won't want to leave.
Betty Stainless Steel Footed Bowl — Anthropologie, $14.00
These retro footed bowls add a touch of fun to the dessert course. They give a simple scoop of ice cream that old-fashioned bistro feel, making your end-of-meal treat that much more special. These are a small but impactful upgrade to your hosting arsenal that you wouldn’t necessarily think to buy for yourself.
Geranium Linen Tablecloth — Matouk, from $185
Matouk's Geranium print draws from the bold, hand-drawn Tillett archive, printed on 100% linen with a weight and texture that photographs beautifully but looks even better in person. Available in a range of shapes and sizes, with napkins and placemats to match for those who like a cohesive tablescape.
Brass Candlestick Holders — Quince, $69.90
Candlelight is one of the simplest and most transformative things you can do for a dinner table. This set of three polished brass holders works beautifully clustered as a centrepiece or spaced individually down a longer table. This is the kind of gift that will get used again and again.
An Expert Guide to Enjoying Wine with Helen McGinn, $67.00
For the mum who considers herself the resident wine authority at any gathering. Drinks expert and wine judge Helen McGinn brings warmth and genuine expertise to every lesson, covering grape varieties, food pairing, the art of winemaking, and how to read a label with confidence. She'll finish this course knowing exactly what's in her glass and why.
Gifts for the aspiring chef
For the mum whose happiest hours are spent in the kitchen, these picks celebrate the craft of cooking and the joy of feeding people well.
The Building Blocks of Flavour with Thomasina Miers, $67.00
Chef and Wahaca co-founder Thomasina Miers is one of the most instinctive and enthusiastic cooks working in the UK today. Her course is built around the fundamentals of great flavour: how to source the best ingredients, how to combine them intelligently, and how to cook food that genuinely reflects the seasons. There's practical wisdom here too, on menu planning, kitchen management, and feeding a crowd without the stress. A brilliant course for the serious home cook who wants to take her cooking to the next level.
Miyabi Hibana Chef's Knife — Sur La Table, from $169.99
The result of a ten-year collaboration between Miyabi and Sur La Table, the Hibana chef's knife is a genuine heirloom purchase. A 49-layer Damascus blade, a triple-riveted ergonomic handle, and the kind of balance that professional chefs look for. The sort of knife that makes cooking feel like a pleasurable act from the moment you pick it up.
Titanium Always Pan Pro — Our Place, $179.00
We love the professional feel of the chrome finish on this pan. Our Place's Always Pan Pro is the chef-worthy version of the pan that's already on every wishlist. Built with coating-free, PFAS-free NoCo® nonstick technology, it's dishwasher safe, metal utensil safe, and built to withstand serious heat. A pan that keeps up with an ambitious cook.
Mexican Table by Thomasina Miers — Barnes & Noble, $42.00
The natural companion to Thomasina's course. Over 100 recipes built around twelve staple Mexican ingredients, written with the same passionate warmth she brings to her teaching. A book that earns its place on the kitchen shelf and gets used rather than admired from a distance.
Gifts for the interior design obsessed
For the mum who notices the skirting boards, has strong feelings about paint finishes, and considers a well-dressed room one of life's great pleasures.
The Ultimate Guide to Interior Design with Rita Konig, $197.00
Rita Konig's rooms are instantly recognisable: layered, full of character, and carefully crafted without ever feeling overdone. This course is her most comprehensive guide to how she actually works, covering everything from finding your style and laying out a room to building a colour scheme, planning electrics, and working with tile and stone.
Isak Throw by Røros Tweed — Design Within Reach, $245.00
This is the kind of ‘buy well, buy slow’ purchase Rita preaches about. Crafted by Røros Tweed, one of Norway's finest textile producers, the Isak throw is made from 100% lambswool in a rustic basketweave pattern inspired by classic Shaker chair tape. The kind of throw that will be loved by your family for years to come.
How to Be a Successful Interior Designer with Emma Sims-Hilditch, $197.00
Emma Sims-Hilditch has spent her career creating timeless English interiors that feel both elegant and liveable. Her course covers the essential building blocks of interior design with her signature blend of practicality and refinement. Emma’s refined design philosophies will quietly change how you see every room and will show you how you approach your own home with longevity in mind.
The Evolution of Home by Emma Sims-Hilditch — Barnes & Noble, $55.00
A coffee table book you can’t help but flip through, and a great companion to Emma's course. Emma has always understood that great interiors have to work in harmony with the way people actually live, and this book explores that philosophy across dozens of projects, from urban townhouses to country houses. Worth owning for the photography alone.
Golden Pollinator Candle — Flamingo Estate, $75.00
Home scent is one of those things that can instantly transform the mood of a space, which is exactly why the best designers take it so seriously. Emma Sims-Hilditch keeps two scents running at all times, a summer scent and a winter scent, because she considers scent as important to a room as the paint colour. This limited-edition Linden Blossom candle from Flamingo Estate is the perfect summer scent. It captures the feeling of Milan in full bloom, transporting you to a sun-soaked holiday.
Gifts for the green-thumb gardener
For the mother who takes soil health seriously, knows her seasons, and considers time in the garden the ultimate me-time.
The Art of Gardening at Sissinghurst with Troy Scott Smith, $267.00
For a garden lover, this course is a genuine treat. Head gardener Troy Scott Smith takes you through every season at Sissinghurst, one of the most celebrated gardens in the UK, sharing the techniques, planting insights, and hard-won practical wisdom that keep it extraordinary year-round. Beautiful to watch and richly educational in equal measure.
Molly Hatch Hobby Stoneware Mugs — Anthropologie, $18.00
These adorable stoneware mugs are essential for a morning potter about the garden. These hand-painted, hand-glazed stoneware mugs from artist and ceramicist Molly Hatch are cheerful, tactile, and dishwasher safe. The kind of small, well-chosen gift that gets used every single day.
Small Garden Design with Butter Wakefield, $130
An American living in London, Butter Wakefield has built her reputation on making small outdoor spaces feel generous, well-planned, and full of life. Her course follows three real garden projects, each with a different brief, teaching her design process from drawing a plan to scale through to choosing the plants and materials that perform best in compact spaces. A brilliant course for the person whose garden is modest in size but ambitious in vision.
Sarah Bernhardt Peony — The Sill, from $69.00
A gift worth giving in place of a delivery bouquet. The Sarah Bernhardt Peony is a classic variety that has been a garden favourite for well over a century, prized for its large, deeply fragrant, soft pink blooms and its reliability as a long-lived perennial. It arrives ready to be planted and will return every spring for years to come. Available in a simple grow pot or with a planter for a more complete gift.
Gifts for the all-round creative
For the mum whose interests span everything and who finds inspiration in making, growing, cooking, and designing in equal measure.
A Create Academy membership, $360
Full access to all of our courses, spanning interior design, garden design, cooking, floristry, craft, and more. With over 1,500 lessons available, a year's membership gives the most creatively curious person in your life an entire year of world-class learning to dip into whenever the mood takes her. She could spend it learning to make curtains with Gemma Moulton, arranging flowers with Willow Crossley, or exploring a life in design with Veere Grenney. The creative possibilities genuinely are endless.
Singer Heavy Duty 4411 Sewing Machine — Michaels, $189.99
Every creative house needs a sewing machine, and the Singer Heavy Duty 4411 is the one that earns its place on the table. It’s sixty percent stronger than a standard machine, thirty percent faster, and built to handle everything from silk through to denim and upholstery. A wonderful machine for anyone inspired by Gemma Moulton's curtain-making course or Julius Arthur's Guide to Contemporary Quilting.
The Guide to Becoming Alive — Flamingo Estate, $50
Part manifesto, part memoir, and full of inspiration. Flamingo Estate founder Richard Christiansen spent a year in conversation with people he considers to have truly figured something out, including Jane Goodall, Martha Stewart, Alice Waters, and Ellen DeGeneres, asking them about work, love, purpose, creativity, and what it means to live well.
Browse all of our courses or gift a membership and let her explore for herself.