 couple weeks early. But I wanted to post this video in plenty of time because it is my annual Mother's Day gift guide. Similar to what I do around Christmas time, I thought it would be really nice to give you guys a video letting you know of some of my favorite products so that you could let your friends and family, wink, wink, nudge, nudge know what might be on your wish list for this year. I have six things that I am going to be talking to you about today. So let's get to the very first one. It's actually right over my shoulder here. You can see my ditto form. So ditto form is an exact copy, an exact replica of your body. You go in, you get a 3D scan. That information is sent off and a foam formation of your own body is created. And then it is turned into this lovely ditto form with all the ribbon markings and style lines and everything else that you need. Fully pinnable. The fabric that covers the ditto form is like a stretch jersey type material. So it's really easy to drape fabrics on it. It's easy to work with patterns on it. It is a wonderful, wonderful dress form if you are looking for something that is specific to your body. Now, when I say specific to your body, I don't just mean circumference measurements. I mean like when you have a shoulder that is higher than the other. If your shoulders are tilted or angled, if you have a hunched back or a sway back, it even has that my breasts are two different sizes. It has a smaller one and a larger one mimicking my breasts. It's so detailed that I can feel my hip bones on it. So I know exactly where like my high hip is. And depending on how tall you are, the ditto form will go down to, I guess mine is probably four inches or so below my crotch line. So if you're shorter than that, you will get a little bit more leg. If you are taller than that, then you'll get a little bit less. But it really does cover head to thigh and everything in between, truly everything in between. Ditto form is a bit of an investment and it's kind of a process to get it. I mean you have to get the scan and then they have to create it. It's not something that you can just order and it shows up in two days. So it's the perfect thing to put on your Mother's Day wish list because a bunch of people in your family can kind of pitch in and get you one really, really great gift that you absolutely love. All right. Next up, I'm also going to talk about some jewelry. I mean, what is Mother's Day was all jewelry, right? And I have been talking to you guys about Annalisa jewelry for literally for years. I have been exclusively getting and wearing their jewelry in my videos for so long. I just love their pieces. I love their mission. I love how they are carbon neutral. I love how they care about the environment. They care about the waste that they're putting out into the world. And on top of all of that, they make really beautiful jewelry that kind of like essentially the idea is they cut out the middleman. So they're able to bring us great quality jewelry from jewelers that make some of the biggest jewelry names that you've ever heard. But without the middleman, we there's no extra cost there. So the savings gets passed on to us and we would get really great jewelry for not a ton of money. They have pieces starting at $39 and then it goes up from there. Today I'm wearing super cute. Well, it's kind of like I'm wearing a butterfly and snakes, which I get is kind of odd. In my mind, I was thinking, oh, it's like a nature thing. But I wasn't realizing like, you know, snakes and then butterflies. I don't know. I just thought it was really fun. But it also shows you how you can go from sweet and dainty to also something really unique like snakes. I mean, who would have thought? And they have all kinds of really pretty stone jewelry. They have glittery stuff. They have simple minimalist stuff. They have big bold stuff and everything in between. So whether you are a minimalist type of jewelry girl and you don't wear a lot and if you do it's not super flashy, they have something for you. But also if you like the chunky statement jewelry, they have something for you as well. And again, super affordable, great for the environment. I absolutely love Ana Luisa. All right. Third on our list is something that I feel like every sewist needs, but not every sewist has or invests in for one reason or another. And that is garment labels. I absolutely love putting labels in my garments. It is just that extra little thing at the very end that makes it feel complete and polished and finished and professional. I use label weavers for all of my labels. I love the variety and the options that they have. I can get labels from them that look like some high end luxury brand, or I can get labels from them that look like I work at home and I make clothes by myself, you know, the hobby homemaker thing, depending on what your style is and where your clothes or the thing, the projects that you're making, where they end up, you can add little decals, you can change up fonts, you can use so many different colors. And then the bases that they have for their labels, there's a variety of those too. You have satin, which is really great for like lingerie and pajamas and things of that nature. You have vintage looking labels. You have the labels where the design is sewn in. You have the labels where the design is printed on. You have so many options. And then in addition to like a name plate label, you also have your care labels. So how to wash and take care of the garment. You have your size labels, which are so important if you ever end up donating your clothes. They really, some places require to have a size in there so they know where to put it in their store. But also if you have small children and they're growing up and you need to know is this 3T, 4T, they can kind of all start to look the same. So it's really important to have size labels in there as well. And label weavers has all of that covered. Their website is super easy to use. You can just plug in your information and a little demo of it shows up so you can see exactly what it's going to look like. You pick the color of the label itself and you pick the color of the design and you are good to go. So customer service is excellent. So if you get to the website and you're a little bit overwhelmed, fear not, they will be able to help you out with that as well. So label weavers number three on my mother's day gift guide list. All right, this next one is for all the moms who like learning new things, whether that be new things in business, new lifestyle things, new crafts, whatever it is. There is a virtual learning platform called SkillPop. If you've watched my channel before, you know that I've talked about them before because I am a SkillPop instructor myself. I have like a sewing machine basics class and then I have like our first projects class. But in addition to these sewing classes, they also have a ton, a ton of really amazing awesome classes, both craft wise and but it also branches out from that as well. They have stuff on videography, they have stuff on bread making, they have hand lettering, they have business classes, home organizing, home decorating, so many different types of classes on there. So whether or not you're doing something to fulfill, you know, your creative side or you have a real need to learn something, SkillPop has you covered. All of their classes are 20, 25 dollars. They usually last 90 minutes. Sometimes they run over a little bit and they take place every day of the week at 530 or 7pm Eastern Standard Time. So whether you're on the East Coast, West Coast, wherever you are, you can find some time to join that class. All of their instructors, like me, are very passionate about what they teach, very knowledgeable about what they teach and really, really want to help you learn something new. I know speaking from my own experience, when I have people come to my sewing machine basic class, a lot of these people have never turned on a sewing machine before and it just brings me so much joy to know at the end, they're a little less afraid of the machine and I feel like no matter what class you're taking, that's the kind of feeling you're going to get at the end. You're going to feel a little bit more confident. You're going to feel very proud if you are able to make something or if the class is a project based class, you're going to be really proud of whatever you made. And at the end of the day, you are going to learn something amazing. So check out SkillPop, find a class that you want to take, bring in if you have an adult kids, bring in your adult kids, you guys can take the class together. You and your husband, I have plenty of couples that come to my sewing classes together as couples and I just think it's like the sweetest thing ever. So make it like a date night or whatever. Lots of fun classes over at SkillPop. All right, next up on my list is something that I just recently told you guys about and I feel like I cannot talk about them enough and that is Sublime Graphics. Sublime Graphics prints PDF sewing patterns no matter what format they come in, whether it's AO, copy shop file, letter sizing, whatever it is, they are able to print that for you large format on one sheet on different types of papers. They have three different types of papers. They have a tissue paper. They have something they call tracing paper and then they have like your regular copy shop paper. So I would be remiss if I didn't let all the mothers out there know that this is something that they need to put on their Mother's Day wish list because let's be real, your moms, you're busy, you have so much going on and taping together patterns is not, there's no time for that. So I thought that sending awesome patterns to Sublime Graphics, having them come back to you already printed, already in a large format would just be that one extra kind of like boost and motivation that you would need to get started on that particular sewing pattern. All of the printing jobs are priced per job not per sheet and then there are different pricing for the different papers obviously and then if you need them to digitally combine your like letter sheets together, they call it digitally taping them but basically they take all the individual sheets and they magically, I don't know, put it in some system and it spits it out and then it's all in one sheet so there's an extra charge for that and then of course you'll pay for shipping. So there isn't added cost to it but you have to look at it like well what is that time worth to me? Your time is very valuable, if your time with your loved ones is very valuable, if you find yourself you know being pulled in a million different directions and you're not getting the sewing projects done anyways, maybe that is an investment that is worth it to you. So Sublime Graphics is truly awesome, the fact that they print on tissue paper is literally a game changer, the fact that they will digitally tape your files together if they don't, if like the pattern designer does not provide an AO or a copy shop file, it doesn't matter, they can fix that for you. They are just really really a sewers business and a sewers company and a company that cares about our time and cares about making our lives easier and I love love love companies like that so check out Sublime Graphics. All right similar to jewelry, there is a jewelry of the sewing room in my opinion and that is thimbles. Thimbles for you is a business that's run by a woman named Jan who is a silversmith. She designs thimbles that are not only beautiful and like works of art in their own right but they are also functional. They make your hand sewing so much easier and so much better because Jan takes the time to match you with a style of thimble that is best for you. It's not just the bucket thimbles that you're used to from like the prepackaged stuff at the craft store. She has I think four different styles of thimbles depending on how you hand sew, whether you're pushing at the top of your finger, the pad of your finger, the side of your finger, wherever you're pushing that needle through. She has a thimble designed for that and then all of her thimbles are sized so if you have littler fingers, fatter fingers, if you like to have a fingernail, if you keep your fingernail short, she has a size and a style that is going to give you as much of a custom experience as you can with a thimble doing it virtually. The designs like I said are truly so beautiful. She has new ones that come out all the time. She just released a whole bunch of spring ones. She's got kind of gothic ones. She's got really pretty flowers and floral ones. There's some with butterflies and dragonflies. There are really really some beautiful beautiful designs in there that she does all by hand and what I love about this as the idea for a Mother's Day gift is that it is an heirloom piece. It is something that you are maybe able to pass down again and again and again as you pass on your love for sewing and the idea of that just, I don't know, it just feels, it just warms my heart so much and it you just feel the love whenever you're using one of Jan's thimbles because you know that all the work that you're putting into it, all the energy that you're putting into it knowing that that is going to get passed down to someone that you love who then loves sewing. I don't know. This is a whole full circle idea of that just makes me so so so happy. So working with Jan is really easy but it is a bit of a process because you have to you know virtually send her pictures of your hand, measurements of your finger. She'll coach you through exactly what it is that you need to send her picture-wise and then she estimates what your size is, sends you a whole bunch of options to try on like try on at home, you send back everything you don't want, whatever you keep is what you pay for. So it's kind of a fun process but again it is a little bit of a process similar to dittoform where you have to be a little bit patient but in the end you're going to get something that you truly love that fits and that makes your hand sewing projects, whatever they are, easier to do, more comfortable to do and just better all around. So thimbles for you is the pen ultimate gift idea on my Mother's Day gift guide. All right the very last item on my gift guide is the Aliso Pro Iron. Again another investment piece but it's one of those things that you are going to love and wish that you had months and months slash years and years and years ago. The thing about the Aliso TG Pro Iron is that it has these little feet that automatically pop up out of the iron so that whenever you set it down it automatically lifts itself up off the table. What that means is no more of this hand motion. If your wrist is really weak or if you have arthritis or if your wrist gets really really tired after sewing and having to press so many seams, the TG Iron is going to save your life, I mean not literally, but it will make your experience in the sewing room so so so much better. Those little feet that lifted up off the table are like were invented by the owner of the company because his mom was complaining about having to lift the iron and how heavy it was especially when it's full of water. So he came up with this concept and now we have the Aliso Iron. In addition to the little feet that pop up though it is an exceptional iron all the way around. It's got a really like pointed tip to help you get into those like little nooks and crannies of your projects. The heat plate gets super hot and it's also super even so tip to heal you have an even heat and then it also sends out a ton of steam. You can control the steam with four different settings. You can control the heat too obviously but if you need a lot of steam it will send out a ton of steam. I have had my Aliso Iron for two going on three years now, still works perfectly, still works like a charm. I still love it. I don't have any leaking. The feet still operate perfectly. I have no issues with mine whatsoever. I absolutely love it. The coolest part about getting an Aliso Pro Iron now is that they just released some new colors. So I know it's a little bit of like a vanity thing but there are new fun colors that you can get that will add a little bit of fun and vibrancy to your sewing space. I have the pink one. I've had the pink one from the very beginning but the other colors are equally as beautiful and then as a little aside they also have a mini iron obviously less expensive just as powerful does not have the feet that raise it up. It's still really useful and really powerful tool to have in your sewing room and it's a little bit more or a little bit less expensive. So you can check out both of those options as well. So there you have it. That is my Mother's Day gift guide. Seven items that should be on your Mother's Day wish list. I have links for every single product and if there are coupon codes that I have that apply I will have those in the description box as well. I hope you all have the most amazing Mother's Day in that you are spoiled rotten whether it is with material things like the things I've gone over today or just with love and affection and attention and everything that you deserve on this day that celebrates you. So happy Mother's Day everyone. I'll be celebrating with my baby my fur baby that is. We are all mothers in one way or another and I just hope you have the best day but that is going to do it for me today. Thank you all so much for watching. Check the description box and I'll see you all very soon. Bye.