Our 2025 Mother’s Day Gift Guide comes to you as a special edition with the entire list curated by our very own Maven in Chief, Leslie Bailey. As a busy entrepreneur and mom of three boys, Leslie is always looking for ways to make her life easier, softer, and well—a little less… smelly.
Presented by our friends at Insomnia Mom, a marketplace of experts on a similar mission, we hope this guide (featuring all local businesses) brings plenty of inspiration to show the special mom or important person in your life how much she’s loved.
Services + Experiences
Give the gift of help to ease everyday stressors and outsource overwhelm! Explore our Interactive Marketplace filled with trusted local small businesses, ready to take tasks off her plate. From managing responsibilities to tackling daily priorities, find the right support so she can focus on what matters most—time for herself and loved ones.
Prices vary, The Marketplace
If cooking is your love language, like it is mine, you never stop learning. I’m ready to up my game with some cooking classes and found a fun variety, including this family-friendly Pizza Palooza class, via Cozymeal. I’d love the gift of a class, solo or with my littles.
Prices vary, Cozymeal.com
“West Side Story” with The Indianapolis Opera–at the Zoo
My husband has recently started listening to more opera around our house, and I have to say I’m loving it. It inspired me to learn more about our own Indianapolis Opera, and this upcoming performance of West Side Story is perfect for someone like me who is just dipping their toe in — under the stars at the Indianapolis Zoo! I love the idea of a gift of a bistro table for two (4-tops are also available) and bonus: since food and beverages are available for purchase, I don’t have to worry about dinner.
Tables starting at $240, www.indyopera.org. Use the code maven5 for $5 off your ticket!
Beauty + Relaxation
The Aroma Room owner, Shayla Webb, is really onto something with her one-stop shop in Carmel offering aromatherapy suites, salt suites, and hydromassage. Sure, you could always gift a massage, but why not excite her senses and try something new this year? The Touch the Sky package offers five passes for your choice of 30-minute steam, 30-minute salt and sauna, and 20-minute hydromassage.
$175, The Aroma Room
Now that I’m 40, I think of a few facials as general maintenance versus a luxury, so I get them a few times a year. However, I would love the gift of a laser treatment, like the CO2 laser resurfacing from Ageless Aesthetics. It can address fine lines, wrinkles, changes in skin texture, and the stubborn scars from the super fun adult acne I’ve experienced the past few years.
$600-$750, Ageless Aesthetics
ALL the Massages
Massage therapist and Maven member Deborah Macke introduced me to Holly of Southside Ashiatsu a few months ago, and I’ve been desperate to try one of her “Stomped,” “Stoned,” “Stretched,” and/or “Wrapped” services ever since. I’d also really like to try Deborah’s Lypomassage. Basically, give me allllll the massages.
Prices vary, southsideashiatsu.com and www.rejuvenatemassageandwellness.com
Consumables
Sovi Wild Child Sparkling Orange Non-Alcoholic Wine
Anyone with younger kids at home will understand the need to desperately not wake up with a hangover. The Sovi Wild Child sparkling orange wine from Orangily is a new favorite, and I’d love to celebrate the day with a bottle—no fuzzy morning-afters included.
$34, Orangily
Boy Mom Candles
I love this line of “Boy Mom” candles from Roman and Leo, poured locally by Unplug Soy Candles. As a mom of three boys, I felt the name “Doesn’t Smell Like Boys” in my soul.
$30, Roman and Leo
Shower Steamers
I love a relaxing bath, but don’t always have time, and while I have aspirations of hanging eucalyptus in my shower, I don’t have the energy to make that happen. Enter these Thulsia Naturals shower steamers, I can throw on my shower floor and (hopefully) enjoy a few minutes of uninterrupted bliss before I start my day. Bonus points: they’re made by a women-owned business!
$12.95, Decorate
Send a Friend Lasagna: Limited Edition Package
Imagine this: the aroma of a freshly baked, mouthwatering lasagna filling the air, paired with the breathtaking beauty of a whimsical, handcrafted floral arrangement bursting with color and charm. Glorious, right?!
Send A Friend Lasagna has teamed up with Amanda Belcher of Creative Designs, for a limited-edition Mother’s Day Package. Choose her favorite lasagna and add an enchanting bouquet for just $30—a double dose of delight delivered right to the doorstep of your favorite person (yourself included!).
Place your order by May 7 for deliveries on Saturday, May 10, and Sunday, May 11, between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. Please note that Send A Friend Lasagna’s heartfelt deliveries are available locally in Indianapolis and surrounding cities.
P.S. Catch SAFL owner Stephanie Daily on Indy Now on April 30 to learn more!
Starting at $57.95, sendafriendlasagna.com
Home + Fashion
I think puzzles are perfect. You can do them alone, you can do them with others. You can do them all in one sitting, you can do them over time. And, you get something fun to look at in the end. I find this La Dolce Vita 1000-piece puzzle from Rooftop Fruit particularly intoxicating.
$40, Rooftop Fruit
In an attempt not to list one of the fabulous cookbooks in store at Dear Mom Indy—because there are many and also I have many—I’m putting “How to Live with Objects” on my wish list instead. Hoping it will help me find peace between my internal struggle of minimalism and maximalism.
If you’ve been on the hunt for a perfect purse, the ‘Alice’ from Howl + Hide might just be it. It’s nice enough for a night out but casual enough for daily use, and you can use it as an over-the-shoulder and cross-over or remove the strap for a true strapless handbag.
$209, Howl and Hide
If everything feels serious right now (including your wardrobe), these socks from Stomping Ground might be for you. They made me giggle a little when I saw them—what more could a mom ask for in heavy times?
$15, Stomping Ground
Need to breathe new life into your space and ask the universe for a little more of the paper kind of green? Enter the Pilea Peperomioides, aka Chinese Money Plant, from The Botanical Bar. Prefer to build a bouquet or repot something you already have at home? You can do so at their Mother’s Day event on May 10.
$22, Botanical Bar
Leslie Bailey is the cofounder + CEO of Indy Maven. She has two boys under seven (plus a 15-year-old bonus son) so she needs all the help and pampering she can get. She also really hopes her husband reads this.
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