I opened Pandora's Box...

I finally got my very own Pandora charm bracelet! (purchased by my lovely mother)

I took my mom over to Charmed by Claire in Cranbury, who is a Gold retailer (carries full line of Pandora charms), and finally got my "starter" bracelet. As you can see, you can pick from Murano glass beads, silver designs, animal shapes, and many more! You can also go all silver (like mine), all gold, or two-tone.




If you want to start your own Pandora bracelet, here are a few tips from Claire:

1. Get your wrist measured. You want the bracelet to be about 1/4 in larger to make room for the charms.
   
2. Spacers(first charm on the left) keep the beads from sliding up and down the bracelet. They have an easy open-close clasp.
   
3. You don't really need spacers until you buy more charms. Don't bother with them yet.
4. Feel free to get more than 1 bracelet. They are great to stack together. You can then connect them together to make about a 16in necklace.

There are many websites selling the Pandora charms. Claire will ship them out to you as well. You can also get on her mailing list to learn of Pandora trunk shows and sales.

Once you open Pandora's Charm Box, you unleash the shopping demon-ess inside!

If you're looking to shop for Pandora in NJ, here are some of the retailers:

Gold
Made to Order-Clinton-908-735-4244
Adlers Jewelers-Westfeild-908-233-6900

Silver (carries everything but some Gold items)
Malboro Diamond Castle-Malboro-732-617-2168
Fortunoff-Woodbridge-732-602-1000
Phillips & Fredericks-Bernardsville-908-766-2766
John Herold Jewelers-Randolph-973-895-5664
Greets & Treats-Livingston- 973-740-8880
Gri Gri's-Boonton- 973-263-3917
Schroth & Lorenson Jewelers-Summit-908-273-1676
Valley Jewelers-Upper Montclair-973-746-0505