Mother's Day
A light for Mum
A Mother's Day gift that stays: a jar of dried flowers and a card only you can write. By day it sits on the windowsill; at night it lights up by itself. A gift with meaning: personal, lasting and fairly made.
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For the jar
What goes in the jar for Mum
The jar opens. Put in what tells your story — at night it glows from within.
A gift that comes back every evening
Mother's Day flowers are lovely and wilted within a week. The Sun Jar stays. It charges in the sun by day and switches itself on at night — warm white, dimmable, up to 28 hours on medium.
Fill the jar with dried flowers, add a card, done. And if Mum likes to stay outside in the evening: the Sun Jar is weatherproof to IP65 and can stay on the balcony.
Made by hand, in Johannesburg
For mothers who know handwork when they see it: we make every Sun Jar by hand, from recycled glass and stainless steel, in our Fair-Trade-certified factory at Victoria Yards. On the Artisan Edition the beads are set by hand — no two lanterns alike.
The people there have steady work, in a region where more than 60 percent of young people have none. A Mother's Day gift that makes a difference there too.
Gift suggestions
For Mum
Every Sun Jar comes as a complete set with the SOMO solar light, and so do the Light Carafes here. Unwrap, put it in the sun, done.
Up to €60
More about Mother's Day in our stories
More occasions
A light for every occasion
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Christmas
Fir in the jar, warm light for the long evenings.
Christmas gifts → -
Valentine's Day
A photo, a note and a light for the two of you.
Valentine's gifts → -
Wedding
The Light Carafe for the first shared table.
Wedding gifts → -
Housewarming
No socket, no drill — light from the very first night.
Housewarming gifts →
Frequently asked questions
The Classic (1000 ml) is the big gift for balcony and garden table, the Mini the small one for a windowsill — hardly bigger than a cup. Special ones are the Lilac Edition and the Artisan Edition, whose beads are set by hand in Johannesburg. All come as complete sets with the SOMO.
Dried ones, yes: lavender, grasses, dried blossoms. The jar opens and the SOMO light sits in the lid. So Mum gets a bouquet that does not wilt and glows at night.
Hardly. Stand it in the sun by day; it glows by night — the day/night sensor does the switching. For grey weeks there is the USB-C port. The light is dimmable too.
Yes. For outdoor people, the SOMO in the Adventure Mount, with lanyard, magnet and tripod mount — a lamp for tent and backpack. For the dinner table, the Light Carafe: a carafe by day, a lamp by night.
The people who build the lantern: steady, fairly paid jobs in Johannesburg, Fair-Trade-certified. 100 percent of profits flow back into the company and its people.
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