My Top Gold Charms - Fraser Ross

Hi and welcome to whatever you want pandora, by me Jordana. So today I'm going to be showing you guys some of my top 10 - top 5 charms, but I'm going to be giving them in category. I'm going to start off with the gold and I have chosen my top 5 gold charms. This is really exciting because obviously I have a little bit of expensive tastes, knock and why, but we'll start off with the least expensive so it doesn't hurt.

The first one is going to be the full gold spacer, this one is priced at $85.00, it's really quite small and very dainty and I did discuss this in another video and because I said that if you want to start incorporating gold into your Pandora jewellery, especially with your charms, this is like the best way to start because it's so inexpensive. Then we have the open hearts, that's the design all the way around and I can definitely give you the price for that because I obviously don't know that one off by heart, even though I know most of the charms by heart.

Except that the new catalogue is completely redone by theme and I'm not a fan. This one is priced at $415, the open hearts. It's just it's a really nice big gold charm at four hundred and fifteen dollars to be honest for a size charm like that, I don't find that expensive and but then again, I'm about to show you the most expensive charm in all of pandora charms collection and it is definitely in my top five because it is a very, very unique and beautiful charm. It is this one here, it has matching earrings, I showed you I believe the two matching rings and one of my other videos.

This is stunning, this is at priced at a thousand thirty, but the detailing is really, it's really something, it's just, what can I say it's a very vintage looking piece, it's the detailing is beautiful, the diamonds are bigger on that if you compare them to other charms that we will be looking at. It's you know, it's quite nice, this is also from the new collection, hearts can you tell that I'm a hearts freak? This is priced at two hundred and ten dollars, now I like this because you can either use it as a spacer or charm. It's not really enough to be a spacer, but it's gold so you if you would want that as your focal point on your bracelet, that would work too, and then of course the crown. The crown is priced at 940, there are diamonds, it's the camera that I'm using at work is not fantastic, but the diamonds are on each sort of sleeve of the crown, there you go, so all real pretty diamonds, look at the detail it's like a real little crown and obviously this is available in the silver from the new fall collection, but you really cannot compare gold necklaces and gold chain bracelets.

Let's like be realistic here, I'm going to show you now my top three monster charms. So this is not like what sells the most, this is like my personal favourite charms. Obviously I can't do my top ten charms of Pandora, because that's impossible. That was my original idea and then when I went to go get my charms from the trays, I was like, uh that's not going to work, so I'm going to start off with the monster Murano. This is priced at $70, I chose to Keisha one because it just happens to be the one I like the most. So it is a bit translucent on the sides with that detailing, so definitely one of my top 5 monster charms. I only have three actually, this is add a starry night collection, then the two tones, this is also available in the smaller normal size charm. I believe this one is three hundred and forty when you just confirm that for you and I like the monster charms quite a bit, especially to go on chains. You can also put them as a focal point on your bracelet as I discussed in my other video to have, how important it is to have a focal point. It's three hundred and forty dollars and then we have this one, this is the showstopper. I chose the one with the purple seeds because it's just so pretty. The detailing is quite magnificent and you definitely have the oxidization in between each of the lines and then sees eggs all the way around. It's really, really pretty, I know you can't really get an idea of how nice the colour of the purple stones are, but they're really a nice purple and that price, that's priced at $200.

Those are my top three monster charms and now I will show you my top five bangles. I'm not a huge fan of charms that dangle, but obviously we do have certain ones that are just too cute, and some you know, that are very meaningful and some that are more new, so obviously like I like them a little bit more right. So let me start off with the Eiffel Tower, this is part of the iconic monument collection. It's priced at fifty and I mean you can't go wrong with Paris, so let me just show you the cute detail that the iconic monuments have. It's all the feats, they're all the feats, the feet have hearts, so all the iconic monuments have an a heart in each charm which is really cute, because you get to find it which I think is cute.

I really do also like the best friends charm, that's the two butterflies together at $75. What's nice is that they come apart, they clip, oh these are really well clipped together, doesn't happen often, so when you take them apart it says friends forever. That's really cute, my best friend and I definitely have this charm and then she gave one to her close friend and then my other friend, so it's like if you're a group of girls and you all have one, then it's really cute. That's what it looks like together, it's so cute I love it. Then of course we have the guardian angel from the new collection. You'll notice that my top five are charms that I either have on my bracelet or really want. The guardian angel is priced at forty five and it's that little white pearl on the bottom, be my Valentine, this is gorgeous. This is a bit more pricey it's at 275, but to be honest with you, the way that it just looks on a bracelet or even as a pendant, it's just stunning. So you have the little pink seeds you don't get to see the beauty of how they shine because of how bad the lighting is in my office, but then you also have the 14-karat gold and then rhodonite stones, the rhodonite stones in each 14 karat gold. Be my Valentine this is definitely one that I'm aiming to get for Valentine's Day next year, and then of course my favourite, favourite, is the evil eye. This one is 65, it's on both sides the evil eyes, so it's not just one-sided which is nice. It's in that really pretty pastel blue so all the other enamel charms with that blue, they match. I really like that, just to recap we went over my top five gold charms, my top five dangle charms and my top three monster charms. I'm going to post another video on my top enamel, my top CZ’s my top Murano, my top two tones. Continue watching and you will see that too, so thank you so much.

Jewellery Charm Bracelet - Fraser Ross Jewellery

I’m with the Potomac bead company and I'm just going to give you some ideas for what to do with some of your chain ends, and also feature one of our new pewter links that we have. That's a loop here, you didn't use any toggle ring for this. I've attached it here to some leather cording. We're in the Ocean City New Jersey store so this is kind of a little trinket Ocean City memory charm bracelet, it has a little jewellery charm on here as well as the OC.

I'm also going to show you how to attach a fish and also to use some of the chain, for this when you're doing these, you're going to use some head pins which are going to have a little stop at the end and you're going to be making some loops, as well as some raw wire to attach to your loop. Again a toggle loop will work, any sort of soldered loop is best to use for this technique. I have my round nose pliers that I'm going to be using to make round loops, I have my wire cutters that I'm going to be using to cut the wire, as well as the chain and then I also have my needle nose pliers.

To start out I'm going to decide what length of chain I want to have here and I'm going to cut it to the length that I want. So this one here I have attached the seahorse charm directly to the link using a jump ring. This one here the fish, I want to hang a little bit longer so I'm going to figure out exactly how long I want him to hang on my little trinket necklace. I'm going to cut the appropriate length of links and open up here, once I have the appropriate length of links I'm going to go in. I'm taking a small little jump ring here, so here's just a tiny little four millimetre jump ring. You can use a four, you can use a six, because there's a lot of chain going on you won't see it and I'm going to hang my fish from the bottom loop of my jump ring.

I already have my jump ring open and then I’ll show you how to close it up properly. So I'm going to slide my jump ring on there, I'm going to slide my little fish charm on. I'm going to close up my jump ring, when you close the jump ring you want to make sure that you're closing it completely and you want to close it past where you think it's going to actually be tightly closed, to make sure that that's nice and closed and lining up. Because you don't want to see a seam on that jump ring.

Now my fish is attached to the bottom of my jump ring, I'm also going to hang from that jump ring, I'm just using a head pin, I'm going to hang a little bead to go with it too. It's kind of in Browns and tans here I'm going to put a little blue bead on it just so you can see the bead that's hanging, not jumbled in this and I'm using gold wire so you can see the difference in the wire. I'm going to put the bead on the head pin, drop it down next to the pin base, take my flat nose pliers and I'm going to leave myself a fairly large length because I'm going to be attaching this directly to my link.

I'm going to leave right there is about a quarter of an inch, Bend my wire, make my loop. I'm going to make it fairly large so that way it can freely move around my link and once I have it nice and large here, and I have my link, what I'm going to do is I'm going to open up that loop that I’ve just made and I'm going to coil around that wire. So now that it's in there and that's not going to come off your link at all and I'm coiling down towards the base of the head pin. I'm just going to kind of freeform coil down a little bit. I don't want it to look perfect because it's kind of a whimsical necklace and it's also going to add a little bit of a wire working look to it.

I can then tuck in my end or just for demonstration purposes, I'm going to take my round nose pliers, just kind of round out the edge so it's not going to grab on to anything, and tuck it back. Now that's going to be another little feature that's going to hang right there from the trinket necklace. When I go back to the fish now, in order to hang the fish onto the ring, what I'm going to use is a raw piece of wire. I'm going to make another loop on this side just like I did at the top here, bending my wire back, making a little loop going over the top of my pliers, switching to the bottom. I make a little loop here, this loop I'm going to hook my chain into, so you can see that the loop here is not closed.

I'm going to slide that open loop of chain and kind of click it right into that loop. I'm going to hold that there and I can coil around that extra wire if I want it to be coiled. Cut off the extra a little bit there and now what I'm going to do is attach it to the chain, if I want to I can get fancy. Then I’ll show you just attaching a bead in between. I can attach a bead in between or I could do this without a bead either way.

I'm going to leave myself just a little bit of room about an eighth of an inch bend the wire back with my flat nose pliers, grab with my round nose over the top of the round nose pliers till it hits on the other side, switch from the top jaw to the bottom jaw and take it back. Again I'm making this loop fairly large, so that way I can also put that loop and that piece of wire through and attach that on to my chain. Just like I did with a smaller chain, I'm attaching this to the link. Again I'm going to hold either with my needle nose pliers or my round nose depending on how much room you have in there and I'm going to coil the extra wire around the top of the bead.

Cut that off and you can make this as busy or as little as you want for that trinket necklace to add a little bit to the look of it. I do have this pretty long, it's about a 24 or 26 inch length necklace, so that way it hangs down a little bit on you. When you do pick it up and kind of drape it they're all going to form right together. You can add, you can take away, you can kind of add whatever you like again any sort of toggle loop for work for this. This is a pewter finding that we have a pewter link you could go bigger, smaller but this is going to give you an idea for how to work with some of your chain ends, as well as if you have any open links. Check out our local your local Potomac bead company for some of these supplies and any help if you need it. As well as if you need any help with the twisting or with the bending, as well as opening and closing the jump rings, you can check out our other YouTube wire working videos. In addition to YouTube and to our Facebook pages you can also check us out on Instagram, the bead CO or Potomac bead CO and you can pretend we be companying, you can look and see some of the different designs that we come up with as well. So thanks a lot for watching and hopefully you have fun with a bunch of your chain ends. You can mix and match colours and just throw a bunch of stuff crazy stuff together and it makes a nice little silver charm necklace and bracelet chains.

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.

Great Ways to Accessorize with Jewellery from Fraser Ross

Ah viewer comment time. Adana writes. Hey spanky. Yes I’d like to see videos on accessories. Well I’m glad you asked, so here it is. Hey fashion lovers spanky valentine here with urban original at urban og calm. This video is all about how to accessorize different necklines. Well paint me yellow and call me a banana. It's excessive, it's time, so what I do is I grabbed about eight different tops from the website and I’m going to show you guys what types of jewellery to pair with the different cuts of your neckline. We got scoop necks, both next turtlenecks, no next everything is in between and we're going to show you how to rock it. Contest winner, any contest will be announced later in the video so stay tuned for that as usual.

So I just picked out a basic scoop neck top, now a great way to accessorize a scoop neck is to pick jewellery that kind of mimics the cut of the actual top itself. In this case I chose a solid gold necklace, now I won't generally wear jewellery that's really bold kind of statement piece jewellery, but don't think that you have to do that to accessorize something. If you're more conservative or you like more simple jewellery, then stick with your style. It's all about enhancing you and your personality. If you guys maybe have shorter hair styles or you want to balance it out a little bit more and bring some attention up to your face and not so much around the neckline, then I suggest pairing it with some simple, simplicity is key here. Is this too much, little gold hoops, hoops are going to bring up some balance, I’m not going to put them on, but you guys can see what that looks like.

It's going to draw some attention more up closer to your face and it's, but it's still not going to overpower the necklace and the neckline of this top. Alright guys so here is a boat neck line oh what think the bow is kind of a shallow version of the scoop, that's a little more straight across so what you want to do with something like this is to wear long jewellery, that's really going to help elongate your body, since it's all the way up on your neckline. You don't want to wear something super short up here, it's just going to kind of cut you off a little bit too much. So I chose pretty much a standard pendant necklace, okay so here's what it looks like together. Again I chose something that's really long so it's going to help you look long and lean and very slender which is great.

I chose some long earrings as well, because you can get away with that with a longer necklace and they're not going to conflict. Then I’m going to throw on some bangles to dress this up, bangles, I love them, it's a great way to really and add some extra flair to your outfit. So here's this look, now let's check out another one, all right girls now I’m sure all of you guys have v-neck tops in your wardrobe. What I like to do with v-necks is pair Jewellery that accentuates the v, see how that plays really nicely with the v, it adds a very sexy attention down to the cleavage. Eyes up here, naughty, naughty and because I wanted to accentuate the v line of the shirt, with the necklace, I decided to go minimal with the jewelry. So I’m not, you know clashing with too much attention. Another great thing about these type of necklaces, these hoops is they are interchangeable. So these are awesome to have because even if you had a pendant on a chain, maybe a longer chain, you can take the piece off and voila you have an entire different necklace. Pretty awesome right, yes, you really enchanted by my jewelry. Now let's move on to something a little more complicated. How about a one-shoulder top, all right is the dreaded one-shoulder top I don't know if I can handle it. Oh fear not we've got a couple of different options for you here, now often when I wear a one-shoulder cut, I like to let the cut do all the talking and minimize the jewelry. So I’m not going to do necklaces with this, instead I’m going to get some long kind of dangle drop inspired earrings that are going to look perfect. So I’ll put these on to show you guys. So these type of earrings are really elegant. I think the one shoulder look is a very elegant, very feminine, look so we want to stay very feminine with it and they're not going to take away an attention from the cut of the neckline, which is great and then I’m just going to throw on a bangle on the wrist.

I'd like to put my bangles on the open shoulder side, so that the attention is drawn because you have a bear our bear arm and then you have something really lovely down here and then the attention is drawn on whatever the detail is of the actual shoulder line. Any symmetrical Jewellery is awesome and super unique and very trendy. Now asymmetrical earrings maybe a little bit more difficult to find because they're not you know the most common thing, but if you do find a pair grab them. It's a spectacular way to dress up something like, this ears and all that fierce so the heavier side is going to go with the open shoulder part and then the more minimal side is going to go with the shoulder that's covered.

Turtlenecks are great because you can accessorize these pretty easily in a lot of different ways, because it's full coverage. I like to pair it with some full coverage jewelry. So think of a solid colour turtleneck as your accessories best friend. It's pretty much like a blank canvas and you can paint it any way that you want. So what I like to do is get really bold full Jewellery to drape over my turtlenecks, it's a great classic look and look at how much it dresses up such a simple top instantly. Now when you're wearing a turtleneck, be as it goes all the way up the neckline, I can't see it all, this fabric yeah it's going to make your neck up here a little bit shorter, so if you already have shorter necks or you just want to elongate your body then a great option is to wear kind of a long opera style pendant necklace.

I'll show you what that looks like, so this again it's going to elongate your body. It's going to make you streamline long and thin and it's going to help make your neckline look long as well. Ok so now let's take it on to another look, so you want to know how to accessorize a strapless top. I'm sure you guys have tons of them. What I like to do is wear chokers, so the choker is the perfect accessory to wear with a strapless neckline because you have all of this space that you can use it's kind of your real estate you can build some property up there. Now if you're going out since it is colder and you're going to throw on a cardigan, I’ll show you a great way to accessorize. Throwing something like this on that's going to change the look of the neckline. You have a long streamlined look of the cardigan, so I decided to match that look with a long opera style necklace. Yeah I love this, it's going to make you look really long and tall pair this look with some heels and you're going to be looking so fabulous.

Charm Bracelet Tutorial

Hi everybody, its Cara. I'm here with part three of my tutorials on how I make my charm bracelets. In the last one I showed you how to use split ring or a jump ring and how I attached all my charms, how I figure out where I want them to go, so here is the bracelet with just the charms and hopefully you can kind of see how they're pretty evenly attached. Like I said I counted it all out and get them as even as I can because it makes my little OCD brain happy.

So after I finish with those two charms then comes time for the beads, so here is all the beads I have set up so far. I have a variety of some clear, some blacks and purples a little bit of bling that I added to some of them. I have them all ready to go, I am planning on using all of these but I never know for sure until I start adding everything and I've already got them on the split rings.

I want there to be more dangle in this bracelet so I'm putting everything on kind of bigger split rings but let me show you how I would put together one of these. I would start with a head pin, let's see, if I can get one of those, okay and then I would pick, this is the head pin I'm using, like I said I think in number one the head pin is just the one that has the flat end like a nail and I will pick let's see mm-hmm, I usually just kind of play around with them until I find something that I like and let's see, we'll try, maybe one of these little, of course it's not cooperating with me right now. Try one of these little rhinestone ones, so put that on there first and then maybe one of these round clear ones, like that and then see what this pretty purple one looks like. I like that. Maybe, let me see about this one kind of the lighter, hmm I think I kind of like that one.

Let me see before I move on, let me try one more, bit of a darker purple maybe that way nope, that way, maybe let me mix these around a little bit. This is literally what I do with every single one, figuring out which way I like it. That almost looks like a little person with a big fat head. I think I will skip that one. Let's see I just kind of want to get a little bit more purple on here, that's kind of cool, that one's kind of square.

Okay I think I'm gonna go with that one. So now that you've had it you have it picked and they're all on the head pin as you can see, you have to cut off the extra part, that's your top of that head pin that you're not going to use. So I usually, depending on how big I want my loop to be, leave about round about that much, it's probably, let's see we'll do this. It's about a little over like a little over a quarter inch, maybe even a little bit less and again this depends on how big you want your loop.

So you have that, we can see it and hopefully I didn't cut it too short, then you take your curved pliers and again I apologize I don't know the exact names for these and you, near the base of the wire or the head pin where it meets the bead, you take that and bend it in about a ninety degree angle or as close as you can get, depending on the beads of course, the shape of the beads. You see that, maybe if it’s up against the background that, okay and then this is where the curved pliers come in handy because you're gonna then take it and bend it backwards, curving it over the pliers trying to, which this one's not cooperating, trying to bend it into a loop shape.

So that you can either attach it to a jump ring or split ring or directly to a chain and I'm not doing a super great job because I'm nervous at doing this, on camera and these are by no means perfectly rounded, like I said before I'm not a professional, I just get it to where I can you know I think that the shape looks decent enough to put on a bracelet and you want to make sure that that end is as far down as possible and connects and closes, obviously. So it will stay, let's see hopefully you guys can see the little loop, so it'll stay on the bracelet and then basically I would take one of my split rings and I could add it to this split ring to the chain and the charm all at the same time, but I don't want to do that because I want you guys to see, and I've found a little way that I kind of cheat this tool, I think you know most people just use it to open it up a little bit like that, if you leave enough room and you turn it that little part that sticks out longer opens it up a little bit wider and if you're quick and get it going, then it doesn't hurt your circle, doesn't change the shape.

So then this would be ready to put on to the bracelet. So after those are all done the next thing will be all the buttons which I have ready to go and the buttons are also put on either with a split ring or a jump ring and it just depends on the button itself on how you're gonna do it. Some of these buttons like this one have this shank on the back, I think that's what that's called and you may be able to use a split ring on that and you know from my earlier video, split ring is gonna hold it on better.

Sometimes though they're too thick and you can't get this split ring to work so you go to the jump ring. Also if you want to use buttons that are like this one, that don't have that shank on the back, then you can attach it just like that using a jump ring. I have a variety of buttons here, I'm planning on using them all but again I won't know until I'm actually putting the bracelet together.

This is a mix of vintage buttons, these are vintage over here, these in particular are glass vintage buttons and there's a metal one and then these are some just plastic beads I picked up in a variety of places. So I hope that answers some questions with how you create your beads and attach them and I will be back with the fourth and final tutorial, which will show the bracelet mostly completed and we'll probably put on the last button or bead together. So you can see how I do that.

So thanks for watching and again if you have any questions or comments leave them down below and I hope wherever you're at you're having a great day, bye.