Antonina Kurinnaya: My Pandora bracelet

Hi there!

Today I'm going to show you my Pandora collection. Initially, I didn't want the bracelet, because Pandora is Huuuuuge in Russia and EVERYONE has it. Even in my office five girls have their bracelets. Mine was a gift from my boyfriend's parents for my Uni graduation, so I didn't choose anything from the start. I've had already different stages in my relationship with this bracelet from denying to buy it to getting slightly bored of it through some serious obsession.

My bracelet is from black silver, a lot bigger than my wrist, because I didn't choose it. I can even put it on without opening the clasp, and it's got even bigger after I put all my charms on it. I wanted to buy a new one in my size or exchange this one in Ireland (you can't exchange jewellery in Russia by law), but as it was a gift I didn't have a bill and so I decided that I loved it anyway, so I didn't bother doing that.

It came with 4 different charmes picked up by my boyfriend's parents. They were all new from the summer collection of 2013 (I guess)..

So I got these ones from the start:

I have two of these, but I took them off and I almost never wear them, cause I prefer my bracelet to look neutral

I don't have too many of the charmes, and I don't have any specific rule of purchasing them either. Some of them are gifts, some of them are meaningful to me, some of them are brought from abroad. I'm definitely not that kind of person who prefers only the ones that mean something.

Next one I got was this one. I bought it in Dublin when I was visiting my best friend Oksana. I chose the one that reminded me a lot of Celtic culture.

Then when I returned home I got this one from my boyfriend just because he loves me and he wanted to do something nice. And it was a summer collection and after browsing the internet a lot I just decided that I really liked this one.

Next was this one, that I got from Palma de Mallorca. I bought it and brought to the hotel in a fancy paper bag that they give you, but then I realized that it was the wrong one with the words "Mum" on it, so I had to go back to Palma and exchange it.

Then I had a break in buying myself the charmes for a couple of months, but as my friend and I finished a seasonal work at the Flower Expo in Moscow we decided to buy ourselves a meaningful flower-y thing. I bought this one.

It's probably one of my most favorite ones.

Then on Christmas time my boyfriend's parents went to Prague as they always did, so they came back with these two adorable Christmass-y things. I don't wear the bells that much just because I personnaly consider them quite chunky for the bracelet. But anyway, I love them both.

After that I got a bit bored with the bracelet and I don't wear it as much (at least not every day), but I still get some charms for it, but mostly meaningful ones.

This one I got in Rome where we went on our 6-year anniversary. Totally Rome one. I purposly didn't buy the Colosseum one, just because it's too touristy, I think.

This one's a bit uncomfortable to wear because it has some sharp and pointy bits that can be stuck in clothes, but I just love it anyway

The latest addition to my collection was brought to me from France by my parents. These two things were the first ones that my parents gave me and the heart is my faaavorite of them all. The kitty was chosen by my dad, so I love it a lot.