| If you're at all interested in Pandora Charm | | | | special occasion or seasonal holiday. If you're |
| jewelry you will know that the charms | | | | looking for something to spice up your own |
| themselves fit into different categories. The | | | | festivities, you could of course always buy one |
| categories include animal charms; food and drink | | | | for yourself. They're generally not the more |
| related charms; alphabet charms; they have a | | | | expensive beads, so you don't have to outlay a |
| complete set of birthstone charms; over 50 | | | | lot of money to treat yourself to a new Pandora |
| different flower charms; holiday charms and love | | | | charm. |
| charms to name but a few. Some of the charms | | | | Another intriguing set of charms are the alphabet |
| actually fit into two categories and there is some | | | | beads. There are two basic styles of beads, with |
| overlapping. For example, the birthday cake charm | | | | each style showing one alphabet letter. One silver |
| could fit into the holiday subset and the food and | | | | bead is triangular in shape and the letter is |
| drink subset. | | | | imprinted on all three sides of the bead. Then |
| Within each set you will find charms made from a | | | | there's a round bead with a single gold letter |
| variety of material. Common metals used by | | | | showing amongst several silver letters. There's |
| Pandora are Sterling Silver, and 14 carat gold. | | | | tons you can do with these beads. The most |
| They also use enamel and murano glass for their | | | | common, is to use them to spell out a first name |
| beads. Both precious and semi-precious stones are | | | | on a bracelet, but they can also be used to just |
| also used. The more expensive charms naturally | | | | put initials of your college, favorite basketball or |
| are the gold charms with diamond set jewels. An | | | | football team, or your own initials on your |
| example of this type of charm is the gold "Puffy | | | | bracelet. Or you can spell out single words, like |
| Heart Charm" inset with a diamond. They also | | | | "love" for instance. |
| make the same bead available, for a cheaper | | | | From the new releases from Pandora, my |
| price, with inset Ruby or Sapphire, and an even | | | | favorite new charm is from the food category. |
| cheaper version made from Sterling silver inlaid | | | | The grape charms are made from Sterling silver |
| with a Zirconia. This way, if you like a particular | | | | so they're not outrageously expensive. The |
| charm but can't afford the most expensive | | | | charm is of a grape cluster with vine, then there's |
| version of it, there's always something else to | | | | a semi-precious stone hanging down off the |
| choose from that is within your budget. | | | | charm. If you're after purple grapes you would |
| The Pandora holiday charms are also very popular | | | | choose the purple Amethyst version, for green |
| at present. There are eight available for | | | | grapes the green Peridot. These hanging stones |
| purchasing at present, though new charms are | | | | really set off this particular charm and I have |
| released at least twice a year. These make | | | | found the new Pandora grape charm particularly |
| excellent gift charms, especially to celebrate a | | | | well crafted and very pretty. |