Beautiful charms straight from pandoras box (Pandora Jewelry)

Member Name: princess1986

Product:	Pandora Jewelry
Date:	28/05/09 (374 review reads)
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Advantages: Unique, beautiful, romantic, affordable

Disadvantages: The gold bracelet & its charms are expensive

For those of you who are not aware, the Pandora jewelry collection are very well known for there pandora bracelets, as well as there other stunning peices. Now although the braceletts are very popular and fashionable at the moment, they are not so new as you may initially think. This excerpt from the pandora official website gives some background to the bracelet.

"1999 saw the launch of PANDORA's ever-popular charm bracelet on the Danish market. Consumers quickly embraced the concept, and PANDORA grew hand in hand with the increase in demand. In foreign markets, interest in selling PANDORA jewellery has also been keen, turning PANDORA into a global brand that is currently sold in 18 countries. PANDORA has gone from a two-man business 25 years ago, to a team of 35 at its head office in Copenhagen, and 1,000 workers at PANDORA Productions, its factory in Thailand."

The website for those of you who are interested can be found at www.pandora-jewelry.com/UK. You can purchase the bracelet and also the charms etc from the site as well as from jewelers who stock the pandora collection.

I was bought my pandora bracelet by my boyfriend for my 23rd birthday, allong with a strawberry charm (because we have went strawberry picking in the summer every year for the 6 years we have been togeter) and a little dog charm (I hand reared a RSPCA puppy from 12 hours old when his mother was to thin to lactate for her litter,and still have him to this day, so this charm represents him).

The idea with theese braceletts is that each one is unique, everyone will choose theire own combination of charms and each one could have a special meaning and a story behind it that makes this a wonderfull gift and also very romantic because of the concept beind it.

The bracelet can be purchased in both gold and silver and also in two designs, one with a bead clasp whereby the clasp looks like another charm, or the one I have which is a claw clasp, just like you get on most necklaces. The claw clasp also has a little dangly silver disk with the pandora logo on it, which is very pretty.

The bracelet is split into three sections, a middle section, with two screw threaded parts either side which the charms twist over like screwing a nut onto a bolt, and then can sit in the middle section, of they can sit either side of the middle sections. You can buy "clips" to go over theese two screw sections which mean that you can customise your bracelet further by choosing how many charms to have in each section and theese clips stop them from moving from section to section whilst still allowing them to move freely within the section they should be in.

You have a lot of choice for your bracelet when it comes to filling it. Avaialble are hundreds of different charms, stunning glass beads, the affore mentioned clips, spacers, and also charms with dangly charms on them. As you would expect charms are also available with stones and gems in them, obviously theese are more expensive than charms without, but they are well worth investing in as they really do mae your bracelet really stand out and the stones sparkle when they catch the light.

The pandora bracelets themselves come in both silver and gold and as I mentioned before, both silver and gold come in the two designes, the claw clasp, and the bead clasp. The prices are as follows when purchased at Kings jewelers, however I am sure prices vary from stockist to stockist so theese prices should be used as a rough guideline only.

Silver with claw clasp £50
Silver with bead clasp £60
Gold with claw clasp £260
Silver with claw clasp £320

Charms range from £20+ for the silver
Spacers range from £12 for the silver
Clips start at £30 for the silver
Glass beads start from £25

I am unsure of the prices for the gold charms/spacers/clips as I have not purchased any, I am keeping my bracelet completely silver, with the exception of three glass beads, one in each sction. The bracelet oce boughtcan be built as slowly or as quickly as you like. Some choose to bu a charm every pay day, others, like me like to receive them as gifts from special occasions so that each one has a story. I love this as my bracelet really makes me smile when I remember the meaning behind a charm.

On my bracelet so far I have...

Strawberry charm - from boyfriend for my 23rd

Dog Charm - from boyfriend for my 23rd

Green glass charms - Chosen because I have green eyes so like to wear green accessories and often green eyeshadow on nights out so wanted my bracelet to match

Sun burst pattern clips x2 - bought theese myself so that I could arrange my charms how I wanted them

Rabbit charm - Iv rehomed over 60 rescue and RSPCA rabbits and guineapigs in the last 8 years (I work with animals, Im a veterinary nurse)

Breast cancer dangly charm with pink stones/crystals - bought for my by my friend beause he knows its a charity I like to support and a percentage from the sale of this charm goes to the charity

Hedgehog charm - Bought for my by my brother for my birthday, again because of all the injured and orphaned hedgehogs iv nursed over the years

Swirl pattern spacer - Bought for my by my aunt for my birthday

Charm with a dark blue pearl dangly - present from grandad & nana for my birthday

The bracelets really are too pretty to describe and you really do have to see them for yourself to see how becatiful they really are. Once you see them, i guarantee you will fall in love with them and will want one. They are an excelent way of expressing your individuality and they look stunning for wearing on a night out of for a special event, whilst still being suitable for everyday wearing. Mine never leaves my wrist, and im sure yours wont either!!!

Summary: Impossible not to fall in love with