Los Angeles - April 29, 2008

Mama Say! Mama Sa! Mamakossa!

2008 Mother’s Day Guide

You wanna be starting something? Well, Mother’s Day is right around the corner.

Mummy Dearest
Get Mumsy’s party started right with a darling box of Valerie Confections’s new pansy petit fours and a tea gift box from Lamill. A Donna Wilson cozy will keep things nice and toasty.

Yo Momma 
Help keep her guard up with a Gloria apron from the new Henry Road boutique, but watch Ma melt for Francois Payard’s new Chocolate Epiphany.

Mama Jamma
Let Madre lounge in her Undrest robe while awaiting delivery of Blue Plate’s Breakfast in Bed care package with yogurt, fruit and granola or bagels, O.J., champers, and fixings for four (1415 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica; 310-260-8877).

Earth Mother
Nature or nurture? Both. Post-workshop at the Theodore Payne Foundation, Momma can hit the dirt with new Ethel gloves for yard-working girls. For a rose garden by the spritz, try Strange Invisible Perfumes’s Prima Ballerina scent.

Mother Loaded
She’ll take a shine to a pomander (the new Gold ’N Dulcinea sachets) or a subtle sparkly by Melinda Maria. Give Mère a break from the spotlight with a poolside peppermint foot treatment at The Peninsula’s newly renoed roof garden opening May 1.

Now, you’ve got to be starting something.