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Handmade Resin Flower Jewellery

Blooming For Beauty: Handmade Resin Flower Jewellery

There’s something magical about capturing nature’s fleeting beauty and turning it into something you can cherish forever. That’s exactly what we do at Just Like Mildred—a mother-and-daughter team creating handmade resin jewellery that preserves real flowers in timeless pieces you can wear every day.

Real Flowers, Preserved in Resin

Each piece begins with carefully selected real flowers—delicate petals, tiny blossoms, and soft greenery—that we dry and prepare by hand. Using high-quality UV resin, we encapsulate these natural treasures so they stay vibrant, protected, and as beautiful as the day they were picked. No two pieces are ever alike, making each item truly one-of-a-kind

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Designed to Last

We know jewellery should be as durable as it is beautiful. That’s why we use stainless steel components in all our creations. Stainless steel is hypoallergenic, tarnish-resistant, and strong, ensuring your jewellery stays stunning for years to come. Whether it’s a pair of earrings, a pendant, or a bracelet, you can wear our designs with confidence every day.

Handmade With Heart

Behind every piece is a story of creativity, love, and connection. As a mother and daughter duo, crafting together is our way of blending generations—combining skill, imagination, and a shared love for nature. Every design is lovingly handmade, meaning what you wear is not just jewellery, but a piece of our family’s passion and artistry.

A Gift from Nature, Made Just for You

Our handmade resin flower jewellery makes for meaningful gifts—perfect for birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, or simply treating yourself. Each design carries the charm of natural beauty, captured in a way that never fades.

🌸 Jewellery that blossoms forever. 🌸

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Taking Notes

Hi, I’m Rachel from Sweet Thorn. My plan with this blog – which I think I will call Taking Notes – is to continue developing a habit of noticing details in nature.

Some years ago, when I was thinking over ideas about embroidery and what I found inspiring, I realised I had lost the time to notice details we see every day. Nettles and dandelions, or the flowers we see in
hedgerows and brownfield sites, get taken for granted. But, given the time, I like looking more closely at plants and flowers, to see the detail of petals and leaves and notice distinctions. I also like to know what I’m looking at. I realised how easy it was to glance at a hedgerow and label the lacy flowers as umbellifers, without knowing which ones were cow parsley and which were Queen Anne’s Lace. Or hemlock for that matter.

Embroidered cow parsley seed heads

My embroidery art is influenced by these small details, many of which I have learned only in the last few years, through taking photos and looking up what I’ve seen. There are a lot more white and lacy umbellifers than I knew, and their flowers are so varied! The seed heads can be just as intriguing – cow parsley seed heads have exquisite little curling details like filigree. Other plants are a bit more familiar – I particularly enjoyed stitching the distinctive heart-shaped seeds pods which make shepherd’s purse so easy to identify.

Close up of shepherd's purse seed heads, outlined in embroidery.

Hand stitching is an excellent way to highlight details and draw the eye but of course it develops much more slowly. I choose my subjects carefully – I want to be able to recreate my sketches in thread and communicate
what I find most captivating. But even simple designs take time. The advantage of this is that hand embroidery creates a lovely, careful rhythm of work. But writing will add to the scope of embroidery, as I can describe a wider variety of plants more easily. I can also communicate more than the appearance of different wildflowers – I can talk about the fragrance of honeysuckle, juicy blackberries and the feel of leaves in different seasons. I am hoping that taking the time to reflect will allow me to notice more details each time I go out, and that the busyness of life can be balanced against things like noticing the shape of hawthorn leaves or the gleam of rowan berries.

I’ll be back next month – thanks for reading! All best,
Rachel

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All About myself and HRJ!

Welcome!  Let me start by telling you a little bit about myself!


I’m Fallon, a thirty-something year old, living in Hertfordshire with my husband and daughter.  I’m an avid crafter, have been all my life, trying my hand at many different activities for fun and making numerous things for my daughter and as gifts.   I also love home baking and drinking copious cups of tea!  I have a degree in photography and shoot freelance baby and children photography (when global pandemics don’t get in the way!)

 

I’ve been using polymer clay since I was a child, initially making teeny tiny food for my dolls house.  My husband bought me a food themed polymer clay book many years ago, and after experimenting with cakes and sweets, decided to start selling the increasing number of makes I produced, mainly to clear some space!!  The rest is history, HRJ was born in May 2011!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I chose to continue the foodie theme as I love all things quirky and retro – I’m an eighties child, so the retro food you find at old school birthday parties is an absolute favourite at mine – plates of iced ring biscuits, fondant fancies, etc – whenever we have a birthday at home, we always have that kind of tea party to celebrate!  I think the theme brings a sense of nostalgia to childhood/good memories from the past (my allsorts sweetie bracelet was one of my very first makes, and is still so popular today, with the young and old!). I’ve now also started to branch out into homeware and decorations…but more on that in my next blog post!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inspiration strikes me at any time – I generally get distracted by anything cute and quirky, especially colourful eye catching things.  I love kawaii styles, and have incorporated it into some of my pieces.  Current trends inspire me, as well as actual foods; being a keen baker, I follow lots of baking accounts on social media, and sometimes try to recreate something edible into clay form!  I also have had many commissions and special requests over the years, and some I have felt would be really popular, so have then made these into pieces for my shop too.

I joined TBCH in early 2020 and love the unique community of makers here, they are all so helpful and friendly, with each and every one making beautiful high quality handcrafted items.

Oh and if you’re wondering…my favourite biscuit to dunk in my cup of tea is….a chocolate bourbon or Lotus Biscoff!