The Heart Within a Heart Necklace

An open heart pendant in 18k gold plated finish, with a smaller heart suspended inside it — and a paw print pressed into the smaller heart at its center. Two hearts, one inside the other, the way grief sits inside love.

This is for the woman who has finally accepted that she will carry both, for the rest of her life. The bigger heart is the love she had. The smaller heart is the grief that came after. Neither will leave. They just live inside each other now.

18k gold plated over sterling silver 925, hypoallergenic, on a fine 18" chain with extender. The smaller heart moves gently within the larger frame as you walk.

Wear it on the days you can hold both at once. Wear it on the days you can't. Either way, the structure is the same: love and grief, held together in metal, carried at the collarbone.

Love was the bigger shape. Grief is the smaller one inside it. They both belong.