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hi, i'm Annie ♡
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chapter one — the name
la trésorée — it's not grammatically correct french, and that's the point.
it's the kind of cute-french-adjacent name that lived on taiwanese and japanese goods in the 90s — printed on tote bags, stitched into t-shirts, scribbled across stationery, painted on lunchboxes.
brands using vaguely european words to signal something soft and worth wanting. growing up, those names felt like a kind of magic.
la trésorée is my version. roughly, it means to be treasured — or the treasured one ♡
chapter two — how this started
i've been making jewelry for a while — i run another brand, strawberry possum, that's more fine-jewelry leaning, more breath-holding while i set a stone. la trésorée is the opposite of all that.
it started as a hobby. just me, a desk, and a growing pile of charms, beads, and tiny objects i kept finding. i'd combine things that had no business being combined — a gold angel next to a piece of candy-shaped resin, a knife dangling next to a strawberry. friends kept telling me you should sell these.
so i did. then i kept going.
chapter three — what i make
trinkets is the catch-all word. earrings mostly, for now — but also:
- → charms that double as pins and shoe charms
- → magnets
- → phone grips
- → phone charms
every piece is hand-assembled by me in los angeles, in small batches. i'm currently working on more — stationery, stickers, and a small character series based on japanese folklore that started as a single illustration and refused to stop multiplying ✨
chapter four — why trinkets
i think we're too serious sometimes.
i love the idea of carrying something small and sparkly through your day — a sweet, slightly weird object that doesn't need to mean anything to anyone except you. a knife earring at a quiet brunch. a tiny dragon hanging from your phone in a serious meeting. cute things in serious places.
i'm also a deeply nostalgic person. things from the 90s and early 2000s shape almost everything i make — the colors, the textures, the vibe of looking at a sticker book before dinner. east asian variety, anime references, candy stores i could only see in movies. i grew up between worlds, and the trinkets feel like a way to hold all of them at once.
chapter five — what's always swirling
not because any of it shows up in a specific product — but because it's all in the room with me when i work.
manga + comics
cardcaptor sakura, nana, james tynion iv (especially something is killing the children)
classic horror
hellraiser and everything around it
sci-fi
doctor who, fallout, anything with worldbuilding
90s + early 2000s movies + tv
sci-fi, folklore, fantasy, horror — the vibe more than any one title
east asian tv
old japanese shows i rewatch on loop, korean dramas
sanrio characters
(in order of devotion) marron cream, little twin stars, pompompurin, batzmaru, keroppi, goropikadon!, my melody
fantasy in general
folklore, dark fairy tales, anything with a moral that gets weird
the thread between all of it: i love that things can be scary and cute at the same time. unsettling and sweet. tender and a little dangerous.
la trésorée is built on that ♡
the end (for now)
i'm one person and i read every message that comes through. if you ever want to ask about a piece, send a custom request, or just say hi — drop me a line ♡
xx,
annie