⚜️ Felicia’s Keepsake Chest 🎨🧳📿
A Dawnhollow Story
On a slow Louisiana morning, Cole followed the shade of the live oaks while Vito trotted ahead, nose to the wind. The porch smelled like lemon oil and old paper, the kind of place where things remember being loved. A handwritten sign read Porch Sale, and between the teacups and hymnals sat a tiny gilt Florentine chest — the kind that looks like it could hum if you touched it.
The drawers rasped softly when he opened them, the sound of matchbooks and memory. Inside the bottom one, wrapped in tissue gone yellow at the folds, he found a gold lattice ring that caught one slice of sun and refused to let go.
He bought the chest because it looked like her — hand-painted, imperfect, a little too beautiful to be practical. He brought it home for Felicia, his artist, because she loves pieces with a past and the kind of Avon that was made to last. The ring became her wedding band. The chest became her reliquary.
Now she keeps her everyday magic inside: strands of Trifari and J.Crew, her mother’s cross, a Cloisonné bracelet from an old trip, and matchbooks from places she’s painted. It’s part gallery, part prayer box, part love story — a Dawnhollow relic that still hums when the light finds it just right.
In the Chest:
⚜️ Root Beer cameo, vintage 1960s
⚜️ Shooting Star necklace
⚜️ J.Crew crystal necklace with large round stones
⚜️ Lia Sophia “Demure” retired dainty necklace
⚜️ Vintage Avon gold lattice mesh ring
⚜️ Cameo locket necklace
⚜️ Bib necklace in gray and gold tones
⚜️ Cream cameo ring, possibly Hattie Carnegie
⚜️ Vintage Avon cross necklace, 1976
⚜️ Cloisonné bracelet (square)
⚜️ Vintage Trifari gold and black rope necklace
⚜️ Coach quilted heart necklace (with visible wear)
⚜️ Banana Bob vintage pink stone earrings
⚜️ Mid-century hand-painted porcelain daisy flower brooch
⚜️ Trinkets: small keepsakes including shells, buttons, thimble, postcards, matchbooks, and a hand-painted Indian trinket box
