I saw this thread, thought about myself, fell of my chair laughing, and had to sign up!
I'm a relatively new Pandora addict. I originally asked my partner to buy me one last Christmas; I saw it advertised (Rainbow design) in a local jewellery store. He called the store, was informed that they didn't sell completed bracelets, and that the cost of a bracelet could run from about $600.00 Canadian to $7,000.00 He only heard the $7,000.00 part, so I didn't get my bracelet.
A month after Christmas, while browsing in a high-end clothing store around the corner from my office, I saw the Pandora display, and immediately bought myself a bracelet and filled it with beads, based on pink Murano. I later decided it was blah, bought more beads in different Murano, bought another bracelet, and so it went.
I now have four or five beads of all the Murano colours except purple and blue (and those are next), tons of silver beads, and quite a few spacers, enamels and even a few silver and gold beads.
Man, did they ever see me coming.
But I don't have a bracelet, per se. I like to make new ones all the time. Right now I have a lovely one with amber/yellow/orange Murano, a couple of gold/silver, some quartz, with the remainder in silver beads. It looks great.
I'm working on a second one right now, in pink and lime green. I can't decide if the enamels make it look garish, so I'm just going to string it all up and see how it goes.
This thread has given me the idea that I should take a picture of each of my bracelets when I make them, in case I decide to recreate them. Too bad I didn't twig to this idea earlier on. Going for the camera now.
