Here’s a fun “vintage” bracelet I made to honor my city.

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Here’s the tour
Starting at the clasp, top:

1. An enamel charm of New York State

2. A traffic light: mechanical: the lights spin to change colors

3. An enamel shield of Niagara Falls

4. Enamel charm is of Staten Island. (There are 5 boroughs that compose the “city”

5. The Empire State Building

6. An enamel charm of Coney Island—the parachute

7. An enamel charm of the borough of Brooklyn

8. A beautiful geographical enamel map of New York State

9. A reverse intaglio globe of the old New York skyline

10. An enamel charm of the borough of The Bronx

11. A banner: “New York”

12. The Statue of Liberty

13. A disk, sun-like, The New York Skyline ca 1960’s with Statue of Liberty in foreground, 2 rubies

14. An old enamel shield of The Empire State Building

15. The Twin Towers

16. A city bus with wheels that move

17. A spinner: 1964 World’s Fair

18. A charm for the borough of Queens

19. A bubble intaglio reverse globe of the symbols of the 1939 World’s Fair, the Trylon and Perisphere

20. An enamel disk of Long Island (Brooklyn and Queens are part of Long Island, the rest is considered New York State

21. An enamel charm for the borough of Manhattan

22. An enamel shield of Central Park

23. An enamel shield of New York State

24. A large silver disk with raised Statue of Liberty, The Empire State Building, The Chrysler Building, 2 rubies and 1 emerald

Yahoo comments:

• the b…
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You ALWAYS make such interesting bracelets! A really lovely example!

Saturday January 12, 2008 – 09:33pm (CST) Remove Comment

• nemo4…
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charming

(sorry ~ i couldn’t help it, but they really are)

🙂

Sunday January 13, 2008 – 08:05am (EST) Remove Comment

• * Ste…
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I love all your bracelets! They are so breathtakingly beautiful!! They are so original and tell a great story.

Sunday January 13, 2008 – 08:34am (EST) Remove Comment

• Kathy…
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I love it!!

Sunday January 13, 2008 – 09:46am (EST) Remove Comment

• Susan…
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New York charm bracelet, great. I love the little bus and the dodgers baseball, even thought I am a yankees fan.

Sunday January 13, 2008 – 08:26am (MST) Remove Comment

• Seren…
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Ohh cool Its NY! and the Island is represented too! heheheheh
(btw the rest of Long Island is considered The Island *wink*)
Got a funny, My cousin lives Queens and when he went upstate to college peopled asked where his was from and he replied New York, and they were like duh we’re all from NY. Where in NY? they would ask and he just kept saying NY, lol It was like an Abbott and Costello routine.

Sunday January 13, 2008 – 11:55am (EST) Remove Comment

• Seash…
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It’s gorgeous! As a fellow New Yorker, I love it. I’m not from the city but I still love it. I see you have represented more of the state than just NYC. Still, it looks quite metropolitan!
Serene’s comment is funny because whenever I go some where else and tell them you are from NY they always assume NYC so I always have to specify.
There is life beyond New York City! I do love the city though!

Sunday January 13, 2008 – 02:48pm (EST) Remove Comment

• Tee B…
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Blog Entry: 181. Creative Circle Sunday: Vintage charms and charm bracelets: Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk

These are…charming!! What a wonderful collection of charms. I am sure you get mucho comments from people who see this bracelt on you.
I tried once before to leave a comment here(your entry about growing up and when your mother got rid of your “treasures”, but Yahoo wouldn’t let me post it that day–I tried twice and then gave up). But, I loved seeing and reading about your charms on your bracelet and how you have in your adult years reclaimed this collection, and then some!! Also, my mother had(still has?) a charm bracelet and yours reminds of her’s. I adored looking at it and playing with the charmswhen I was growing up and she also had the Statue Of Liberty on it(as well as the State of Maine, the Berliner Bear and a Scottie dog…can’t quite remember all the other charms).

• Rural…
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I’m really, really, late today. I’m glad I didn’t miss this. It is so thoughtful. I love the whole state idea.
Again, many thanks for showing your absolute treasures.

Sunday January 13, 2008 – 10:11pm (EST) Remove Comment

• Joann…
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we Love everything like this ,New York makes it better, this is lovely, I love it!

reply redheadgirl4 wrote on Jan 12, ’08 It’s beautiful! And especially so with the explanation. Quite the nice way to pay tribute to a really remarkable city. Hugs!

editdeletereply lauritasita wrote on Jan 12, ’08 Nice stuff, sis.

reply dianeoart wrote on Jan 12, ’08 Just amazing what you are doing there. Hugs

reply laura1may wrote on Jan 13, ’08 Fancy having so many dedicated to one place. I don’t think charm bracelets ever took off in quite the same way in Britain.

reply starfishred wrote on Jan 13, ’08 Like I said wow and wonderful and every word there ever was written in the positve about this bracelet you are stupendus do you know you are a real TREASURE EIN SHATZ

reply annedigitalis wrote on Jan 13, ’08 I strongly associate the world’s fair globe with the city. I always remember driving passed that on the way to my Auntie’s house in Whitestone.

reply philsgal7759 wrote on Jan 13, ’08 These are so special What a talented lady you are

reply shirgy wrote on Jan 13, ’08 very nice idea and very lovely!

reply hurricanekate wrote on Jan 14, ’08 you well know I love your city…….and I love that bracelet. girl you got mad skillz!

reply lunadreamin wrote on Jan 14, ’08 oh beautiful! love the details and the explanations…thank you!