My Pandora Bracelets & Charms

One thing which I have very rarely mentioned on here is my love for charm bracelets. I started collecting charms when I was… 14? With a Thomas Sabo charm bracelet and pretty much got hooked on it. For a couple of years Thomas Sabo was all I collected but then I found Pandora, and fell in love with their charms for a while.

It’s been a good couple of years since I did collect any charms though, for a while I went back to focusing on Thomas Sabo with their essence collection (I didn’t like the newer style of Pandora at the time), and I eventually had to sell a lot of my charms whilst I was studying for my Master’s Degree.

But! This Christmas my Aunt bought me a December birthstone heart charm, and it basically reminded me about Pandora and got me hooked again. I’ve bought *some* new charms… (this is absolutely more than I should have bought) and my Mum actually didn’t want her old bracelet anymore so gave me hers.

So, here’s a little post about my bracelets and some of the charms I own that mean a lot to me. For future posts I might just write a post for each charm kind of like a review of it? But that’s mostly for an excuse to take photos of these beautiful little things.

First Bracelet

My first bracelet here mostly has charms off my Mum’s bracelet, aside from the Murano glass charms (the pretty, coloured charms) and the Mickey.

Openwork Flowers Charm

Openwork charms are basically just great, cheaper charms that are perfect for gap-filling on bracelets, and that’s pretty much what this one is for on this bracelet. Normally I’d have a safety chain on first but… I got rid of all of mine. Having the openwork there though is a little better for the bracelet itself as less strain that way.

Handbag Purse Charm Pink CZ

My Mum has a serious addiction to buying handbags, so this actually works out as a pretty great charm to represent her on the bracelet!

Cola Charm

This is a seriously old charm now, but essentially if you don’t know me in real life I drink around eight cans of Diet Coke every day. At this point, I need it to stay alive.

Murano Glass Charms

There’s no particular reason for the Murano glass charms I buy, they’re just great for adding colour to bracelets! Blue is my favourite colour, alongside purple, so that’s why the one’s I have are all blue.

Chimp Family Charm

At one point myself, my Mum, Nan and Aunt all had this charm. My Nan stopped wearing hers though and well, as mentioned my Mum gave me her bracelet. It’s another pretty old charm but so cute with how it’s holding the baby!

Crazy Clips

Clips are basically a must on bracelets to keep them from being under strain, and I just love the way that this clip looks in general.

Elephant Charm

Alongside handbags, elephants are another of my Mum’s obsessions. So this ends up not only being one of the cutest charms but perfect again to represent her.

Best Friends Forever Butterfly Two-Part Charm

This might have been off my Mum’s bracelet, but it’s pretty apt because I’ll count her and my Nan as two of my best friends. Butterflies count as a reminder of my Granddad too, because he had a frame full of these butterfly illustrations which I’m pretty sure he got from cigarette packets at one point… but I still have it to this day and it reminds me of him.

Mickey Charm

If you’re a major fan of Pandora, you’ll spot that this is actually the odd charm out. It’s the only charm I have which isn’t actually Pandora. It’s a Chamilia bead I bought because at one point Pandora didn’t have the relationship they have today with Disney. In all honesty I don’t think I’d ever replace it with the current Pandora Mickey charm as I like how his ears are a bit bigger on the Chamilia charm.

Second Bracelet

This bracelet is full of some of my favourite charms, representing some of the things I love the most.