I had a charm bracelet when I was a little girl. Unfortunately it got stolen, which just broke my heart at the time. It wasn't about the value of the object in dollars that made me sad but rather the loss of the collective story that each charm brought to the bracelet as a whole. It was a personal story that got taken with those silly charms, this one given to me by my mother, this one bought at an antique shop on a trip to England. I still remember that bracelet foundly today. Which may be why I love the stella starsky and quinn cox necklace above and the sharon khazzam necklace below. So fabulous! There is no way I could afford (or would want to) either of them, but I love them as examples, nonetheless.
OK, sometimes coincidences are just a little too strange. I too had my beloved charm bracelet stolen! It was filled to the max, starting with two or three on a link. I was heartbroken as well, and can still remember how it looked and felt on my wrist. To this day, I look on eBay thinking that I might find it.
But even stranger... today, as in a couple of hours ago, I was cleaning out a box of memorabilia when I found some old high school necklaces, and pins with "charms", and I thought, TODAY, that I would start a new charm bracelet. No kidding... Did I mention that this happened today???
Posted by: kalliope | December 29, 2006 at 03:41 PM