Home Furnishings and Accessories for Mother's Day Gifts

Pillows are always welcome as they bring a dash of color into a room. A pillow is also the easiest way to change the look of a room and provide accents in a blah setting.

Surya's decorative throw pillow features a bird silhouette against a light background. It can be used on a sofa, chair, or bed, and you can choose between a polyester or down-feather fill.

Pamper Mom with accessories for the bath. Tava Bath Accessories from Pottery Barn are made of rattan and are hand woven. These bath accessories also add texture and subtle, natural color to the bath with their rustic matte stain. They just need to be dried with a clean cloth for maintenance.

Buy all or just a couple depending on the amount of space you have. Dimensions:

• Oval Tray: 6"W x 8"L x 2"H
• Tray: 7"W x 14"L x 1.5"H
• Tissue Box Cover: 5.5" square, 6"H
• Lidded Box: 11" W x 6"D x 5.5"H
• Wastebasket: 8" diameter x 10"H

Scented candles can be a suitable gift for the mom who likes candles. Take a look at these Jonathan Adler candles, that each have their distinctive scents and come in attractive containers.

The Tree of Life Yoga Mat is perfect for a mom who likes to practice yoga or pilates. It has a textured, non-skid surface to minimize the risk of slipping.

Light enough to take to class, and attractive enough to pull out at home, the mat has a tree of life pattern for embellishment. It can be cleaned easily with a damp cloth using cold water and mild detergent, but does need to be protected from the sun.

This mat comes from Gaiam, and measures 24"W x 68"L x .12"Thick, and is reversible.

RingO is a  Universal Tablet Mounting System from Vogel's. Now tablets such as an iPad or Galaxy Tab can be mounted whereever they are required. It can be used inn one click enjoy movies in the car, for show presentations on the wall, instructional videos while cooking or holiday photographs on the coffee table.

The aluminum ring clips onto the tablet mount and adds different ways to experience an iPad or any other tablet.

The Demy is a state of the art touchscreen, kitchen-safe digital recipe reader. It can store up to 2,500 recipes, and very importantly the ability to withstand spills and accidents.

It has numerous features that include adjustable font size, a conversion tool for measurements, and a shortlist for frequently used recipes. Recipes can be downloaded, typed or scanned, and works with Windows XP and Mac OS X.

Dimensions: 5.4" W x 7.8" H x 3.2" D; 3.2" x 5.4" footprint when upright

Create your own memories with this very personal gift. It is fun and a little messy to do, and the end product is something any mother would love.

Canvases come blank in sets of four, so that you can create your own set of hand-prints. The paint is non-toxic, the canvases are available in a blue set also.

If Mom is a Mid-Century design aficionado, she might appreciate any one of these George Nelson clocks. Wall art at its playful best. Most of these clocks in this selection are indeed wall clocks, with the exception of one.

The story goes that these clocks resulted from a playful session with Isamu Noguchi and Bucky Fuller, who tried to outdo each other in making outlandish doodles, shapes and marks.,/p>

There are many designs to choose from and these are but six of them, but they are six of the best loved designs by George Nelson.

For the Mom who love Paula Deen's cooking as well as her furniture and decorating style, this could be the perfect Mother's Day gift.

In this book Paula Deen shares photographs of her own home in Savannah, Georgia. In true paula Deen style the bbok is replete with her stories behind her home. There is plenty of advice on how to achieve the same look.

And once Mom finds out the secrets to Paula's decorating she can get started on entertaining and cooking like her, because the book has plenty of ideas and recipes regarding that also.

The book was published by Simon & Schuster in April 2010.

ELLE DECOR is a well known and well loved magazine when it comes to home decor. It features tasteful spreads and elegant rooms to provide inspiration to its devoted readers. This book takes images and ideas from two decades and compiles them into a book that can be used as an inspiration.

Yes, there is nothing new here if Mom has been collecting her past issues of Elle Decor, but this book contains the best examples so those issues can now be discarded to make room. Style and Substance is about "fabulous yet functional interiors" and carries lots of advice from several well known names in the world of interior design, including designers, architects and tastemakers. A list of the magazine's favorite shops and websites is included.