Much like the signet rings we discussed last week, I’ve always wanted a pretty gold charm bracelet. Something I could slowly add beautiful little pieces to over the years to signify important events in my life or simply things I love.
I think my charm bracelet lust started when I was about five or six... I remember sitting with my grandmother in her beautiful dressing room as she showed me the gold bracelet that had once been her mother’s. The charms, most of which were added during the ‘40s and ‘50s, were so delicate and intricate: a gold envelope that one could “open” to find a tiny love letter, a gentlemen’s pocket watch, a (possibly working?) compass. It was almost like a visual memoir of her life! Of course at the time, I thought of it as a fun toy :)
Though I’ve always loved charm bracelets, it was the Annais Vogel charms pictured above that really got my wheels spinning on the subject. Aren’t they gorgeous? Ms. Vogel received her first Victorian charm at the age of eight and has been hooked on them ever since. From my understanding, all of her goods are vintage and one-of-a-kind. Swoon.
Anyway, I’d love to get my own bracelet started at some point this year. Maybe on my 25th birthday in July… that seems like a nice, rounded time to begin one (says my OCD-self). Do you have a charm bracelet? If so, where do you find charms? I'd be so curious to hear what you have to say! x
(one of Annais Vogel's charm bracelts. obsessed!)
04.18.2013 
