Pandora Bracelets anyone?

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Hi All,

I just purchased 2 new muranos yesterday. They are the Trollbeads China Blue beads. I really like how they are translucent and give off different colors in the light. Here's my bracelet with the beads added:

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MissyMomToTwo said:
Hi All,

I just purchased 2 new muranos yesterday. They are the Trollbeads China Blue beads. I really like how they are translucent and give off different colors in the light. Here's my bracelet with the beads added:

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Heyy this is a gorgeous bracelet i especially love the glass towards the middle and the theme is cool to you could get the pandora dolphin and there are loads of others which would go great! The fish clasp is so cool as well x
 
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DaisyLorraine said:
Hi Traci, Welcome! Your bracelet is beautiful. And here is the weirdest coincidence -- I was browsing around on Etsy this morning and I believe I was in your shop! I checked in here this afternoon and saw your name and thought "Wow, that name looks so familiar!" Just went back to Etsy, and there you were. Too funny! Your beads are very pretty.:cutesy:
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Oh how bizarre! And thank you very much :) I should probably have made my user name on etsy separate than everything else I use, but oh well :)
 
#5,300
I played with my pandora last night and added my bracelet to my necklace to make a long necklace. I have the gold barrel clasp on my necklace as well as my bracelet.

It worked well and I could slip it over my head. I should of taken a picture of it. I dismantled it this morning as a shortner necklace looked better with what I am wearing today.

I was thinking Ladies with mutiple bracelets could add them together and make a necklace for some thing different.

I can't wait to see the cat bracelet. I have a friend who collects pigs and she has an old fashioned charm bracelet full of different piggy's. It is very cute. The mother has a "mother" charm bracelet which is similar.

I'd love to do a old fashioned gold charm bracelet with a them. Any one on here have one. What size chain is recommended? I do prefer solid jewellery.
 
#5,301
Hi Ladies,

I haven't been here for a few weeks. I expected the number of posts I had to read to be triple what it actually is! I guess everyone is on vacation, or at least on vacation from the forum?

I've done quite a bit of thinking the last couple of weeks and I've decided to dismantle and sell about half of my collection. That's a LOT of dismantling, but I think it will leave me with a more meaningful selection of bracelets.

The first to go is my gold bracelet, I think the only day I ever LOVED it was the first day it was finished. This is actually very surprising to me, since I was always a gold girl, never a silver girl, but when I actually sat down and looked at the bracelets that I LOVE they are all the ones that have meaning, not the ones that are themed. My gold bracelet is definitely themed, since most of the gold beads I have don't have any meaning to me. I'll keep a few of the gold beads, but most of them are going, along with the bracelet.

If I could be really strong and really brave, I'd probably end up with only 2 out of my 10+. I'm not sure I'm ready for that much of a drastic cut yet, but I think I'll get there eventually. I'm starting to realize that my obsession with more more more actually caused me to end up with so much that it diluted my love for the first bracelet that actually started it all. I went back to my jewelry box yesterday and pulled that one out and realized it's probably the least flashy of any of my bracelets. Almost no gold, no stones; it does have a few muranos, but ones that have meaning, not just for show. And I LOVE it, absolutely LOVE it.

Oh well, sorry for the ramble. I figured I pretty much went through this crazy obsession with all of you, so I'd share this next phase I'm in too. On the plus side, I'm going to end up with some serious coin in my pockets. On the minus side (and this one I'm trying to forget), what I'll get back isn't even going to put a dent in what I shelled out! Ouch! Oh well, as we say a lot here.... It's only money.
 
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ponygirl.me said:
Hi Ladies,

I haven't been here for a few weeks. I expected the number of posts I had to read to be triple what it actually is! I guess everyone is on vacation, or at least on vacation from the forum?

I've done quite a bit of thinking the last couple of weeks and I've decided to dismantle and sell about half of my collection. That's a LOT of dismantling, but I think it will leave me with a more meaningful selection of bracelets.

The first to go is my gold bracelet, I think the only day I ever LOVED it was the first day it was finished. This is actually very surprising to me, since I was always a gold , never a silver , but when I actually sat down and looked at the bracelets that I LOVE they are all the ones that have meaning, not the ones that are themed. My gold bracelet is definitely themed, since most of the gold beads I have don't have any meaning to me. I'll keep a few of the gold beads, but most of them are going, along with the bracelet.

If I could be really strong and really brave, I'd probably end up with only 2 out of my 10+. I'm not sure I'm ready for that much of a drastic cut yet, but I think I'll get there eventually. I'm starting to realize that my obsession with more more more actually caused me to end up with so much that it diluted my love for the first bracelet that actually started it all. I went back to my jewelry box yesterday and pulled that one out and realized it's probably the least flashy of any of my bracelets. Almost no gold, no stones; it does have a few muranos, but ones that have meaning, not just for show. And I LOVE it, absolutely LOVE it.

Oh well, sorry for the ramble. I figured I pretty much went through this crazy obsession with all of you, so I'd share this next phase I'm in too. On the plus side, I'm going to end up with some serious coin in my pockets. On the minus side (and this one I'm trying to forget), what I'll get back isn't even going to put a dent in what I shelled out! Ouch! Oh well, as we say a lot here.... It's only money.
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ITA with you. I have been doing the same thing with my collection. I haven't even worn any of them besides the meaningful bracelet, so why keep them? Maybe the beads that don't have meaning to us will have meaning to others.
 
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If the bracelets or beads aren't bringing you joy, then it sounds like it is time to part with them. I also can understand how you can get caught up in the whole browsing, shopping and collecting of things. I have that collection-bug myself. The cost of these beads have kept my collection to 2 bracelets. However, if money wasn't an issue, I could see myself getting swept away with needing a bracelet in every color.

Enjoy what you have and if it doesn't make you uncomfortable to part with some...then go for it.
 
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ponygirl... I did the same thing a few weeks ago. I looked at what I was wearing and what was just sitting in the jewelry box and totally rearranged. I am so happy with the bracelets I have created instead. I wear my two-tone one (the bracelet that so many beads that I love were added to) almost everyday. I kept three others (two are complete and will probably never be re-arranged again) and dismantled, sold, and traded the rest. I had 2 empty bracelets that I traded for different sizes for my mom and a friend, and 15 beads that I offered up to friends. I greatly reduced the price of the beads for friends, but still sold enough to buy myself a gold addition to my two-tone bracelet. Of the 15 beads I retired from my collection, I only have 5 left. Oddly enough, they are the 5 that I thought would go first~ :D Oh well!

Good luck in reducing your personal inventory. It was fun for me to look at my bracelets and re-do them. It's funny how tastes change!
 
#5,305
OMG- sounds like a few of us are having the same issues at the moment. I still loving my 2 tone bracelet and am trying to love my silver one- I'm SLOWLY paying for the purple muranos i have on layby to jazz it up.

I have just posted out 4 of my PINK charms I no longer wore and sold on ebay. Funny enough the bead which was my favorite once I got the least back and lost the most money on- it just didn't fit on my bracelet anymore and i didn't want two pink ones. I Love the pink but removed these to make way for more gold and 2 tones. I can't see myself buying ANY more after these 2 are full, but we'll see. It really was an awful lot of money like $4500 since December spent on these- I could have flown home to UK with ALL my family at the current crazy prices on flights for that money. Oh well u live and learn- I will still be wearing them but wish I'd not gotten sooooo carried away with it- I lived for PANDORA for months till my holiday actually awoke me from my OBSESSION. Now I'm obsessing about Coach and Tiffany- LOL maybe i'll NEVER change!!!! (not to the same extent- NO COACH here in Melbourne and don't trust fakes on the internet.)
 
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So do you sell on ebay?

When I started rearranging I drove myself nuts until I got them the way I like them, with some sort of story. But it meant that a couple I didn't like at all until I got them right. These were some I really liked until I pulled some beads off to put elsewhere.

I really worried thinking I had messed it all up. I'm having fun with them again now.

Karin
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Addicted2Trollbeadsandmore/
 
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ponygirl.me said:
Hi Ladies,



I haven't been here for a few weeks. I expected the number of posts I had to read to be triple what it actually is! I guess everyone is on vacation, or at least on vacation from the forum?



I've done quite a bit of thinking the last couple of weeks and I've decided to dismantle and sell about half of my collection. That's a LOT of dismantling, but I think it will leave me with a more meaningful selection of bracelets.



The first to go is my gold bracelet, I think the only day I ever LOVED it was the first day it was finished. This is actually very surprising to me, since I was always a gold girl, never a silver girl, but when I actually sat down and looked at the bracelets that I LOVE they are all the ones that have meaning, not the ones that are themed. My gold bracelet is definitely themed, since most of the gold beads I have don't have any meaning to me. I'll keep a few of the gold beads, but most of them are going, along with the bracelet.



If I could be really strong and really brave, I'd probably end up with only 2 out of my 10+. I'm not sure I'm ready for that much of a drastic cut yet, but I think I'll get there eventually. I'm starting to realize that my obsession with more more more actually caused me to end up with so much that it diluted my love for the first bracelet that actually started it all. I went back to my jewelry box yesterday and pulled that one out and realized it's probably the least flashy of any of my bracelets. Almost no gold, no stones; it does have a few muranos, but ones that have meaning, not just for show. And I LOVE it, absolutely LOVE it.



Oh well, sorry for the ramble. I figured I pretty much went through this crazy obsession with all of you, so I'd share this next phase I'm in too. On the plus side, I'm going to end up with some serious coin in my pockets. On the minus side (and this one I'm trying to forget), what I'll get back isn't even going to put a dent in what I shelled out! Ouch! Oh well, as we say a lot here.... It's only money.
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OMG i hope that wont happen to me any time soon i would be pretty depressed!
Anyways can you pm me and let me know what you are doing with your beads....thanks
 
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not me either!
I wear one of my bracelets every day and still love ll of them. When I am not working I'll wear two.
But because I like them all so much, my buying has certainly slowed down...because they are all where I want them to be, but if new beads come out that are meaningful, or I really love, then I'll do a bit of rearranging.
 
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pjaye said:
not me either!
I wear one of my bracelets every day and still love ll of them. When I am not working I'll wear two.
But because I like them all so much, my buying has certainly slowed down...because they are all where I want them to be, but if new beads come out that are meaningful, or I really love, then I'll do a bit of rearranging.
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haha pjaye is that you still love 11 of them or all without the a lol? x
 
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