1| Your name, s’il vous plait Anne Rubin*
* Anne is a très chère buddy of mine from college. One random reason why I love her: she appreciates fancy tea and French lavender honey nougat as much as me. I dream of going on a trip with her someday (London? Prague?) I think she would be a perfect travel companion!
2| Where do you live? Williamstown, MA
3| What do you do during the day and at night? During the day, I'm an English teacher at a boarding school for girls. At night, I'm a Law and Order watching paper grader, an old house photographing dog walker and novel reading dinner maker.
4| What do you look for in a piece of jewelry? What are you drawn to? I'm drawn to old and new jewelry. I love big statement necklaces that bring an outfit together (I have my eye on the carved resin necklaces at Hotcakes Design right now), and I love small, discreet earrings that are understated. Most of my collection is silver, and a lot of it comes from Etsy.
5| Tell me about the jewelry you wear the most. Is there something that you never take off? My go-to earring are my cameo earrings that were my second purchase from Jean Jean Vintage. I find myself wearing them every single day. They are so key to my collection that I keep them in a special glass jar because I worry I might lose them someday!
6| What is your jewelry weakness? I love earrings, particularly small flower shaped studs. They're so simple and understated! While I have a few earrings I love that dangle off the ear, I find that the flower studs are most versatile and easy.
7| What’s the last piece of jewelry you added to your box? The last thing I bought was an art deco pin from Jean Jean Vintage. I teach The Great Gatsby once a year and I love to have real period things on hand so my girls can see what people really wore in that period. Plus, I'm a total sucker for a nice pin to dress up my teacher cardigans.
8| Please tell me a great story about one of the pieces in your jewelry box. The first piece of jewelry I ever bought myself was a very expensive garnet necklace from an awesome store down the street from where I went to college called Avalon. I wanted it for so long and I was really poor college student. Really, I think I visited it for a whole semester. One day I went to browse there, and it was gone! I asked where it went and the woman working there told me she sold it. About a month later I went back and it was back! Apparently it had been returned. I took it for a sign and I bought it. The lesson was that sometimes when you see something you love, you should just get it before someone else does.
9| If price was not an issue, what piece of jewelry would you give to your best friend? I'd love to give my husband an awesome pair of Mad Men inspired cufflinks. He looks even more amazing all cleaned up and wearing fancy-pants clothes, and I'm always telling him how awesome he'd look in a 1960s suit. And a hat. He really needs a hat!
{The jewelry box series will "air" every Wednesday this month, with five interviews in all. Leave a comment on all five entries and you'll be entered to win a $50 gift certificate to the shop! Details are here.}
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