Charms And Charm Bracelets

A comprehensive guide to charms and charm bracelets shows the wide variety of styles ranging from gold to plastic and from the 19th century to the present, while instructing readers on how to date and determine the value of charms and appreciate their history and uses over the years.

Lose yourself to the magic of The Charm Bracelet. Through an heirloom charm bracelet, three women will rediscover the importance of family and a passion for living as each charm changes their lives. On her birthday each year, Lolly’s mother gave her a charm, along with the advice that there is nothing more important than keeping family memories alive, and so Lolly’s charm bracelet would be a constant reminder of that love. Now seventy and starting to forget things, Lolly knows time is running out to reconnect with a daughter and granddaughter whose lives have become too busy for Lolly or her family stories. But when Arden, Lolly’s daughter, receives an unexpected phone call about her mother, she and granddaughter Lauren rush home. Over the course of their visit, Lolly reveals the story behind each charm on her bracelet, and one by one the family stories help Lolly, Arden, and Lauren reconnect in a way that brings each woman closer to finding joy, love, and faith. A compelling story of three women and a beautiful reminder of the preciousness of family, Viola Shipman's The Charm Bracelet is a keepsake you’ll cherish long after the final page.

The Eiffel Tower in miniature, a tiny silver teddy bear, or perhaps a platinum disk engraved with a date: Every charm on a bracelet has special meaning for its wearer: history on a wrist. Tracey Zabar, premier crafter of charm bracelets, explores the enduring appeal of these chic, sweet accessories in Charmed Bracelets. Beginning with the amulets and talismans of ancient times, she discusses the origins of charms, then showcases a selection of exuberant ornaments from the charm-crazed 1950s and concludes with present-day bracelets. Charmed Bracelets includes suggestions for selecting trinkets around a theme, be it foreign cities or favorite movies, and provides instructions on how to maintain the jewelry. Beyond embellishing a bracelet, Zabar also describes other clever applications for charms: to customize a dog collar, for example, or bedeck the ribbons on an exquisitely wrapped birthday present. A guide to buying charms completes this enchanting gift book. With her popular, vintage-influenced charm bracelets, jewelry designer TRACEY ZABAR has put a fresh new spin on a coveted family heirloom. An artist with degrees in photography and textiles, Zabar lives with her husband and four sons. This is her first book.

When Jessie searches for her ill grandmother's missing charm bracelet, she is led to a magical world and finds she has a reason and right to be there.

Bestselling crafts book author Sherri Haab offers a new take on the classic friendship bracelet with 35 fresh, fashionable, and modern designs! A hugely popular rite of passage for girls all over the world, the friendship bracelet has recently become a fashion staple for women of all ages, incorporating various braiding, knotting, weaving, and embellishment materials and techniques. The techniques and materials of the classic friendship bracelet trace their roots to Central and South America, and the fashion world's renewed interest in all things ethnic have transported it to the runway, inspiring celebrities, models, and fashion mavens like Beyonce, Heidi Klum, Lauren Conrad, Bar Rafaeli, and Rita Ora to sport "stacks" of ultra-chic wrist candy and retailers to sell expensive versions. In Charm Love Friendship Bracelets, bestselling crafts book author Sherri Haab offers a new take on the classic friendship bracelet that shows how to make pretty, chic, and wearable polymer clay charms and beads and combine them with traditional knotting/macrame, braiding, wrapping, and other techniques using inexpensive threads, cording, beads, and findings to create 35 fresh, fashionable, and modern designs. The book covers essential supplies, knotting techniques (with step-by-step illustrations), and working with polymer clay. The designs take a timeless classic and give it a new twist with fun, fashion-forward projects that let you customize your creations with easy-to-make polymer clay charms and beads as well as other easy-to-find embellishments.

Ask any fashion maven: Charms and charm bracelets are hot. Celebrities flaunt them, publications like InStyle, Teen Vogue and The New York Times feature them - even new businesses called "charm bars" have opened to meet the demand. There's good reason for this resurgence: wearing personalized charms around your wrist is like wearing the tiny, tinkling story of your life. Design Your Own Charm Watch is a timely twist on the charm bracelet trend. It comes with an attractive analogue watch (hands on a dial, not digital) on a band of adjustable link chain, along with a good supply of charms, beads, bead wire and jump rings. Follow the illustrated step-by-step instructions to create a uniquely charming timepiece. Complete your watch using just the provided supplies or follow the book's direction to incorporate your own special found objects such as seashells, buttons, pretty stones, orphaned earrings, and so forth. For inspiration, specific how-to's are given for four fun theme watches (Beaded Blossom, Seaside, Fashion and The Kitchen Sink) but, really, the sky's the limit. Isn't it time you got creative? Comes With: 1 bracelet watch, 12 charms, iridescent glass beads, 20 jump rings and bead wire. Awards: Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award.

Take a trip through New York City this Christmas Holly O'Neill knows that every charm bracelet tells a story. Many years ago she was sent one with just a single charm attached. The charms have been appearing ever since, often at challenging times, as if her mysterious benefactor knows exactly when she needs a little magic in her life. As a result, Holly's bracelet is her most prized possession. So when she finds someone else's charm bracelet, she feels she has to try to reunite it with its owner. Even if the only clues she has to follow are the charms themselves. On a search that will take her all over New York City at Christmas, Holly becomes ever more determined to piece together the details of this other charmed life. But what she doesn't know is that her quest may also lead her somewhere she never, ever expected . . .

Fun, quirky, cute or vintage, in this beautifully illustrated book you will discover a wide range of charms adorning various items of jewellery including bracelets, earrings, necklaces, rings and brooches, any of which will instantly update your outfit, whatever your style. Creating that individual charm bracelet for yourself or to give as a personalised gift can now be achieved using Sophie Robertson's bespoke designs. Each versatile charm can be mixed and matched to make your dream handmade jewellery. Twinkling beads, sparkling silver, retro finds and treasured pieces are a selection of the project materials. The choice is yours! With 20 inspirational projects to choose from, all with simple, step-by-step instructions and photographs, plus informative tools, materials and techniques sections to guide beginners, making unique charm jewellery has never been easier.