Christmas Charm Bracelet - Fraser Ross

Hey guys so I thought I'd show you something I’ve never shown you before and has my Christmas sterling silver charm bracelet. So this is it I finally added this year's charm to it, so it's this one and I love charm bracelets, especially the vintage style. It's like a journal on a wrist adding little memories to it but anyway I started keeping this not keeping, keeping this journal, keeping this journal bracelet I started this charm bracelet in 2010 and I was trying to come up with different ways to document my life and have little trinkets look back on to remember that time of school. So here are the charms on it.

I really like the ones with the wreaths. Some of these are previously engraved, there's one engraved on here from 1967 and I wasn't around in 67, not that old, but I love the vintage ones especially the ones with their name on it. They're just so quaint and endearing looking to me, a little frosty there I really like that one and then that tree, where you go I liked enough to get two of the same one, so this and this are my favourite. I finds more candy canes, let's focus you in there, so yeah there it is, it's I can't believe this thing is you know, I’ve been doing this for six years now and I think it'd be kind of a fun heirloom to have. I usually wear it around Christmas and kind of have it in holiday pictures and is a part of my holiday memories and this one is on, towards the end, it says merry Christmas and happy new years. You can kind of start like 12 days of Christmas and end with a New Year charm.

I also have a birthday charm bracelet and a normal charm bracelet, like if everything in my life. If you like to see those let me know. I just want to show you this because it's one of my favourite things, some of my favourite keepsakes like traditions that I’ve kind of been trying to get into and I love energy stuff. So yeah there it is, it's kind of loud, turning this book. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this and let me know if you have charm bracelets and what your favourite types of bracelets or charms are and how many years you've been doing yours. I think it'd be cool to have one that we started as a kid and you're like 60 now and you have it from your whole life or something. See I want to keep doing this and eventually it'll be old like me. No, I think it'd be really fun to have like 50 years worth of charms on here.

I don't actually have them engraved with what year I’m adding to it and that would be a nice thing, but I don't want to add to the cost. So I just don't do that. I thought about just writing on the back and a like a super fine pin what year, you just from by didn't really get around to that. So for now this they're not engraved or dated, but I just like the idea of having a different charm from every year and adding to memories. I do have a Christmas journal so if you want to see that, that's kind of more theme to my channel but I might start adding in my Christmas journal which charms I add each year. I love charm bracelets and holiday traditions, Christmas journals, Christmas charm bracelets and yeah there it is. Ok it's like five o'clock in morning I'm going to go to sleep, I’ll see you later have a good night and yeah Merry Christmas, a few years too late. All right bye

My Favourite Jewellery - Jewellery by Fraser Ross

Hey guys, welcome to another video. So in this video I wanted to actually go through my accessories bin. A few months ago I purchased this thing to attempt to try to organize everything, so that I can make outfits and you know try to create something cool with all these accessories. Instead it's just a huge jumble up of different gold bracelets and gold necklaces and rings. I never really wear them, I never really know what's even in here. So I’m just going to go through it with you guys. You guys can comment if you think I should keep something.

I could just show you some of my favourite things in this first bin right here. I try to attempt to designate it for woven or beaded bracelets, it was a time where I went a little bit crazy and I decided that I want to stack thousands and thousands of beaded bracelets. Again one of those trendy things that really came on trend, it's still a little bit trendy but right now we're going into minimalism and all this like very simple things. One bracelet, one necklace and that stuff, so this trend kind of died down that's why I’m kind of gearing away towards trends personally in my aesthetic but anyways I have a huge collection of beaded bracelets.

So of these there are a few that I actually really like and have, it has sentimental value and others I just bought as like a pack from aldo so I’m not going to talk to you guys about these cheap ones because look it's already like coming off, the string is coming off of it, so it's a little bit pointless to talk about these. So basically they're just wooden beaded bracelets that you get in one of those like $15 packs from aldo, not that special so I don't even know if I’m going to keep those or not but then there are some that I actually really like and have sentimental value. So for example, this one is a green jade bracelet that I actually picked gold when I was in Iran. I went there about two summers ago, last summer actually, not two summers ago and I just really like when I go places like this you see street vendors, you see people you know in little shops, a little alleyway and like buying things like this. I like jewellery pieces because when you wear it next time, like if I wear right now, it takes me back to the moment where I bought it on my vacation and it just has sentimental value and it's not like a poor quality, when you hold it it's a really heavy type of jade material, so it's not just something like a random bead on a random string.

You know another one was this multi-coloured one and this is just cool. It's just like different multicolours. Another is the same jaded material but in this brick colour name with this red one and you know, you'll never know when this trend will come back. Right now I look like someone going to Coachella but you never know, cloth and fabric, so I’m going to share with you some of my favourite ones. Actually forever21 came out with these fabric ones a while back and they're really simple kind of like rope, they were a dollar, like 99 cents or something, but there's just something about them that's really cool. If you just add one of these to your outfit, we can get it on, so if you just add one of these to your outfit, it's just a simple rope but it adds just a little bit of a texture.

Right now I really like wearing this because it's not that bold and I have one in this colour. It's a red colour and then one in a blue colour and one in a turquoise colour. To do this is why, this is one reason why I don't wear accessories that much, because I just am so impatient opening and closing them, especially bracelet it's on it and it's on this white rope. So again, very simple. I like simple jewellery much better, especially for men's jewellery. Just something simple, a little string, a little band, the little beads.

I don't like very flashy and that's just my personal taste though, so you can have your taste. If you like really bold and flashy things, but I personally like bracelets like this and I think I’m going to keep it off and these are just real leather and they're woven, really cool, so you can see here it's kind of like a woven material leather and then this one as well. So it's like this braided leather look, so I really like these as well, again for the sentimental value, but also they look really cool and anything that's handmade and real leather and really good quality. I really like things that are you know, fake leather and knock off and that polyurethane. It just doesn't feel right and it smells really weird - I don't like that chemical smell, this one smells like real leather.

I have some knockoff bracelets actually, so let's get into it. I have this kind of bracelet knockoff, so it's not a real one obviously, so it's like in this rose gold colour. I really love this because first of all I don't really like knockoffs to begin with, but I just think this design thing is element is so cool and let's face it guys, I’m not going to be able to afford a bracelet from Cartier but at least I can afford the same style of it and I just think it looks really cool on. It's like this folded nail that goes around and I really like that and another piece that I’d really, I’m not sure why I bought it, because it's just really blocky and really fake looking is this. It's just like a heavy, looks like a handcuff really. I don't know why I wanted to handcuff myself, like I’m not that freaky and like have those kind of fetishes now. I'm just kidding, very fake looking gold, like I can peel the gold off of this and when you wear it it's just like really big and clunky, it really looks like I’m in a jail, like I’m a prisoner but at the in the website image it looked cool. So I thought maybe I should buy it, but this is one thing that I’m going to take out of my accessories bin, because I’m never really literally going to wear this this one.

On the other hand the gold is like a stainless steel, so it looks nice. The middle drawer right here was supposed to have four rings, none of them is. This ring from marc by marc jacobs, they're like super cheap too. I got this in Vegas and it's a it has Latin sayings on it. Now this one is the Latin saying one is just a simple, it's a simple band with this Latin saying on it. Now I got the one that says “donec mors nos separaverit” which means until death do we part, something like that but I got it because it says nemo. So why not hit this nail motif, I also got a silver nail ring, so it's the nail ring in silver and I just think that one looks really cool and I usually like wearing both of these together.

So these are my go-to rings that I wear. I wear one on one hand and one on the other, so have some really simple rings that I usually just, these are good for like stacking, also I didn't mean to flip you guys off okay and then lastly I wanted to talk about my necklaces that were in this box as well. Some are cool and somewhere again, I don't know why I bought them now. This one is interesting, it's just a silver linked chain-linked metal chain. So it's just simpler, it's a little bit on the flashier bigger side but it's not that bad if you're just wearing a white t-shirt, I feel like or a black t-shirt and you have this over it.

I'm so lazy with these things, like I’m going crazy right now guys there's all this stuff on. I just like being really simple, some of it sometimes, but yeah it's not that bad, it looks cool, it looks good with this outfit too. A little bit, but this is nice on the other hand. I do not know why I have this. This is like rappers, like my 2 chainz am I. I know this is, I don't know why I bought this, it's just like a fake gold huge heavy chain, like I’m a small person wearing this, it looks like I’m like in those cartoons when they have this like tiny person with a huge like thing over their neck. So this I’m not going to wear.

Everything's tangled, you know what I should just not wear jewellery. Okay, so this is my other very favourite necklace. Cheap jewellery, this is like a cheap, really cheap piece of jewellery. It was 399 but there's just something about the design of it, it has a feather at the end with a turquoise bead and then it's just a simple chain. Now I got this at a really hard, I was going through a really hard time of my life a few months ago, this feather was like really when I saw it, it was just like really symbolic and I was like, oh like getting feathers and like flying away might sound cheesy and corny to you guys, but at the time it was really uplifting. I wore it for the longest time, just under my clothes and it just really gave me strength for some reason. I don't know, I had some emotional attachment to it and I really, really liked this. One of my most treasured pieces, even though it's worth the least.

I hope you guys enjoyed my accessories drawer. I know I got a few requests from showing some mens jewellery pieces and I’m sorry that this wasn't very organized, as you can see. I have so much stuff, but so little organization, which I’m going to get into more.