More and more people are becoming familiar with the impressive number of amulets available for purchase. The many different styles and designs have made a modern charm bracelet much more unique and original than ever.

Do you need an example? In years past, someone with a charm bracelet would have their wrist full of dangling charms that could be difficult to see or easily caught on clothing or hair. They used to be extremely unique, but they all tended to look a lot alike. By wearing charms, a wearer could have a thin band of sculpted beads that show personal interest or style, but would not be easily confused with thousands of other charm bracelets.

For example, someone could easily build a bracelet with an emphasis on gold beads, but also reveal their favorite animals, birthstones, and more. They could have dainty dangling charms, as well as precious and semi-precious stones, wooden beads, and glass beads for colorful accents.

Let’s use a single example to illustrate the flexibility and unique beauty of a charm bracelet. For our example, we’ll create a winter-themed charm bracelet with hints of pale blue and cold silver. What kind of amulets could present this characteristic? Using only pieces, the bracelet could be based on a pale blue glass accented with deep blue dots. We could choose sterling silver snowman beads, tube beads with silver and gold snowflakes, charms with tiny pearls delicately dangling from below, white glass bands, silver rings, and even a sterling silver birthstone bead or two. These would all be strung on a sturdy silver chain with the standard clasp.

What we’ve just done is build just one example of a charm bracelet, but there’s an almost limitless variety of themes that could be expressed in the same way. There are sterling silver and 14k gold bases, cotton cord bases, and even tightly woven leather straps to serve as bases. There are beads, spacers, gems, charms of all kinds and more. All that is needed is a basic plan or idea and the bracelet can be slowly built from there. There are even themed gift sets to help someone get started with a bracelet. These come as sets of three coordinating beads that can feature themes like afternoon tea, happy anniversary, or a road trip!