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my funny valentine; Sweet-nothing keepsakes and tongue-in-cheek charms even a tough girl could love.(jewelry designer Anna Sheffield)
Byline: Jane Herman
At first glance, Brooklyn designer Anna Sheffield's chain-link charm necklaces
recall the sort of indestructible been-around-the-block-and-back look of loose change. They're shiny but not too shiny. They could be mistaken for antiques because they're weathered and romantic, but instead of being saved in a velvet-lined box, it seems more likely that they've been buried for decades in Grandma's garden. Still, despite being a bit rough around the edges, Sheffield's trinkets are perfectly sentimental-engraved lockets, captured forget-me-nots, and solid-gold solitaire rings hang love-bitten from her calculated messes of mixed 14K- and 18K-gold chains.
"Hearts are my favorite," says Sheffield, who practiced welding and sculpture before transitioning into jewelry-making five years ago. Her raw approach to metalwork explains the honest made-by-hand-ness of her pieces. Her taste for emblematic shapes, however, comes from elsewhere: "All of those little X and O charms were inspired by text messaging," she says. "I fell in love and did a lot of that this year."
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