New 2024 Jewelry from MIMOSA Handcrafted

I'd been searching for the perfect little tennis-style bracelet to layer with MIMOSA cuffs for years. I couldn't find anything that checked all the boxes, so I decided to make my own. Inspired by our Grace Pendant, this bracelet checks all the boxes and then some.

It looks beautiful all on its own and even better with a stack of cuffs. Our made-in-house clasp ensures your Grace Bracelet is secure and nestles seamlessly into the design. 

Our original Grace Pendant was inspired by and named after our talented former Head of Production, Grace Holden! 

Shop the Grace Bracelet — No Stone

Shop the Grace Bracelet + Turquoise

Shop the Grace Bracelet + Diamonds

New MIMOSA Handcrafted Jewelry in 2024 — Heart Hand Pendants

Thanks to my ten-year-old daughter, we’re all making heart hands these days. 🫶

Heart hands are when you use both hands held together in a half-heart shape to make a whole heart. (In case you’re like me and this is new.) People use them to symbolize everything from love and affection to friendship and happiness.

Inspired by my little girl and her besties, I decided to make an updated version of the BFF heart necklaces we shared with our best friends back in the day. The heart hand is more incognito and looks great with your other favorite charms.

This purchase comes with both the left and right hands — one for you and one for your BFF. Or get several sets for your whole friend group. :) Want to purchase a second chain for your BFF? Order another Everyday Chain.

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New MIMOSA Handcrafted Jewelry in 2024 — Minimal Circle Stone Cuff

Our Minimal Circle Stone Cuff is a simple, timeless design set with the 2-millimeter gemstone of your choosing.

This Minimal Circle Stone Collection is meant to be easy-to-wear, everyday jewelry that stacks and layers well with favorites already in your collection.

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Shop the Minimal Circle Stone Collection

New MIMOSA Handcrafted Jewelry in 2024 — Collar Cuff

In the last four years, we've lost three dogs.

Two of those old friends met us as newlyweds, saw us bring home babies, and watched them grow. They were family, and we were better for knowing them. Before we knew it, our house was loud with love again. This time, littermates, a brother and sister (Lou & Josey), and we all fell for them, head over heels.

Devastatingly, we lost Lou this past Christmas. He lost his short battle to Pythium, a rare disease with no mercy. He was young, and we thought he'd still be sitting on the front porch when the kids were old enough to move out. 

To say our dogs are part of our family is an understatement. We travel together, play together, cuddle together, do nothing together, do everything together. Losing them requires you to reorient yourself to a new way of moving through your day without a lump of love at your feet, at your side, in your lap. Losing them means silence where there were gushy "I love yous" and ridiculous made-up nicknames. It means a soft pillow where there used to be soft paws and sleepy eyes that love you back with all their heart. It means your heart aches in a way you almost forgot it could.

My kids don't offer jewelry advice often, but during those intense days of grief, my son came to my desk and said, "You should make something for Lou."

I knew what he meant. Something visible, something tangible, something to keep his memory skin-close. 

Making a piece to honor our pets was on my list for years; I just hadn't figured out what. We went back and forth, but then it hit. A collar. A symbol of the sweetest belonging. With tags for finding your way home and a name called by the ones who love you most.

The Collar Cuff is for all the Lous we've ever loved.

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New MIMOSA Handcrafted Jewelry in 2024 — Backyard Berry Ring

It's mid-summer 1989, and I'm about eight years old. This pre-screen world doesn't offer much entertainment, so I must create my own. Today, I'm a chef in my backyard kitchen, and at the top of the menu are backyard berry mud pies with yellow flower-covered cupcakes on the side. I spend hours picking the berries, enough to fill a Tupperware bowl I stole from my mom's actual kitchen. I sift dirt for flour and mix in found seeds and crushed leaves as crucial ingredients to this conjured-up concoction. My hard day's work yields earthy pastries almost too pretty to eat. But I don't dare eat them; even at 8, I know enough to be wary of nameless wild berries in my backyard.

It would be another 30-something years till I found out those bright red backyard berries were, in fact, edible. Beyond that, I'd finally learn them by name, the Mock Strawberry. It's not a native wild strawberry but a naturalized little displaced relative from southern Asia.

I can't recall why this backyard berry popped into my mind not too long ago. I remember laying my head down on my pillow and the zoomed-in image of its texture, and then a flood of memories of what I now know as foraging came to me. I knew I had to capture that texture, but more than that, I wanted an excuse to dig deeper into something so woven into my first memories of play and creativity outside. I imagine little hands have been picking bright red berries from fields for fun since our beginning. It feels like a shared memory that goes beyond my old backyard across space and time, and something about that feels beautifully human and profoundly connected.

I created this ring to capture some of the magic of backyard baking and foraging before we knew what to call it.

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New MIMOSA Handcrafted Jewelry in 2024 — Joy | Sorrow Collection

There is an ancient saying that there are 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows. During our lives, we will all experience both, in more of a balance than most of us can bear to accept. The truth is, a life lived whole and with an open heart comes brimming with joys AND riddled with sorrows.

 

Borrowing from the ancient Roman’s depiction of the number 10,000 (X̅) and the concept of 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows from the ancient Taoists and Buddhists, I created this design as a reminder of the human experience of both—a simple raised X for joy, a simple stamped X for sorrow.

 

A reminder that when in joy, savor it for the gift that joy is. And when in sorrow, do not push it away, but sit with it, do not make more or less of it, but accept it as part of this very human experience and embrace the fluctuation between.

Shop the Joy | Sorrow Cuff

Shop the Joy | Sorrow Pendant — and in 14K gold

Shop the Joy | Sorrow Ring — and in 14K gold

New MIMOSA Handcrafted Jewelry in 2024 — Texas Jewelry Collection

They say home is where the heart is. If that's true, a big chunk of mine lives just across the state line, west of Toledo Bend.

Read the backstory to this collection here and explore the full collection below.

The Armadillo Cuff

Armadillos are as southern as it gets; they feel like armor-covered roly-poly symbols of home. Click [here] to discover the full story behind this meaningful design in our blog.

Shop the Armadillo Cuff

The Horned Toad Collection

Key Pendant

The Longhorn Collection

The Osage Orange Collection

This Osage orange cuff is a tribute to the Texas native national treasure. It has an enduring legacy of survival and usefulness throughout all 48 contiguous states and some of the most unusual fruit you've ever seen. Click [here] to discover the full story of how and why this piece came to be.

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Shop the Osage Orange Ring

The Owl Collection

A barred owl, carefully carved in tedious detail, one eye-straining feather at a time. A labor of love only made possible by profound meaning. Click [here] to discover the full story of how and why this piece came to be.

Shop the Owl Bar Necklace

Shop the Owl Cuff

Shop the Owl Cuff with Stone Eyes

Shop the Owl Ring

Shop the Owl Tie/Lapel Pin

 

Published 9/16/24; Last Updated 9/16/24