Mother's Day gifts from a little shop of wonders

Mother's Day gifts on our shelves can be silver, stony, useful, garden-shaped or a little curious. Goldenhands is a family-run gift shop at 30 George Street in Hastings Old Town, trading since 1987.

Silver she will wear

The silver pieces in this group are named as Solid 925 Sterling Silver. Sterling silver is 92.5% silver by weight, with the rest usually copper.

Sky Opal Solid 925 Sterling Silver Stud Earrings and Snow Opal Medium Round Solid 925 Sterling Silver Studs bring the opal names into small earrings. Opal is a mineraloid of hydrated silica, appears in every colour, and has hardness 5 to 6.5.

The Tree of Life Oval Solid 925 Sterling Silver Pendant is a pendant rather than a pair of studs. An 18-inch chain sits at or just below the collarbone and is the most common length.

A stone heart for the windowsill

Agate is a banded variety of chalcedony, which is microcrystalline quartz. It can appear in colours from white and grey through blue, red-orange, yellow, brown, pink and purple, and has hardness 6.5 to 7.

Jasper is an opaque, fine-grained quartz coloured by iron and other minerals, usually red, yellow, brown or green. Jasper has hardness 6.5 to 7.

Hematite is iron oxide, metallic grey to black, noticeably heavy for its size, with hardness 5.5 to 6.5. An Agate Fire Crystal Heart, a Jasper Tiger Crystal Heart and a Hematite Crystal Heart make a neat little row of stone hearts for a windowsill.

For the garden and the kitchen

The Gardener of the Year Pot Mug and Shovel Spoon puts the garden right in the product name. It is the sort of mug that arrives with its own tiny tool, ready for tea beside the seed packets.

The Turquoise Peacock Feather Dreamcatcher is named for turquoise colour and peacock feather.

Goldenhands also sells greeting cards, so the present can have a card beside it before the wrapping paper appears.

A card, wrapping and the shop

Free gift wrapping is on every order, with the box ticked in the basket. Free UK delivery is on orders over £19.95.

Goldenhands is open seven days at 30 George Street in Hastings Old Town. The website is a limited selection of what is in the shop, and the shop has a lot more variety.

The gifts page is here: https://goldenhands.co.uk/pages/gifts