Mother’s Day events and ideas in L.A.

Food and fashion, always a potent combination, come together at the annual Sugar & Stilettos bake sale extravaganza (2306 Midvale Ave). Los Angeles’ top bakeries and restaurants will be providing baked goods up for sale and there’ll be exclusive raffle items that will make eventgoers giddy with excitement. This year, the event will take on an Alice in Wonderland theme.

You likely dragged your parents to the circus as a kid, and now it’s time to return the favor. Theatricum Botanicum’s “Momentum Place” crafts a fantastical world of aerial and circus performers, dancers and musicians in a rustic outdoor amphitheater. The event is staged specifically in honor of moms, and complements an optional pre-performance brunch.

Reserve a spot in your weekend for the latest installment of this Pinterester’s Utopia. Echo Park Craft Fair returns—just in time for a Mother’s Day shopping outing—welcoming artsy Eastsiders for a feast of hand-dyed clothing and delicately concocted bath oils, one-of-a-kind ceramics, weavings, jewelry and beyond.

Honor thy mother with a trip to a land where chivalry is still alive. Prepareth thy schedules and costumes for the oldest Ren Faire in the country, a spectacle across 20 Irwindale acres with Elizabethan libations and amusement.

You can never go wrong with this classic Mother’s Day outing—elegant brunch and gardens are sure to please any mom. Enjoy a full spread and bottomless mimosas or an outing in the tea garden. Stick around and spend the afternoon meandering through the botanical gardens and artwork.

Perhaps the Los Angeles area’s most iconic flea market, this event around the exterior of the Rose Bowl is staggeringly colossal—but what else would you expect from a 90,000-seat stadium? The sheer size and scale of this flea market means that it encompasses multitudes: new and old, hand-crafted and salvaged, the cheap and the costly. Treat mom to a trip through this shopping rite of passage—and maybe treat her to an impulse buy or two.