New Charm Bracelet Style

Back in September, as I was getting ready for the Maine State Firefighter's Convention, I tried my hand at charm bracelets. I'd never made them before, and as with all my jewelry endeavors, I was teaching myself. What I came up with looked like this:

I liked it alright, but it looked (and looks) bare to me, like there's not enough there.

I'm very mathematical in my approach to a lot of things... Which is good sometimes, but also a drawback often, especially in creative projects (I have very different parents and I'm very much like both of them haha). So, I wanted to make sure I had the same number of each color of bead, and I couldn't have two of the same color next to each other. It took me a bit to make a pattern (repeating patterns are my friend!) that I liked, and then made the same bracelet in the different color schemes I set up for the convention.

I never was truly happy with the design, but I hadn't had time to play with it until now! This weekend, while getting new items ready to sell at my school, I revamped the design...

Before:

After:

Lots more beads! I decided to help my sanity and still do a set number of each color in each type of bead, as well as use beads that I can many colors of for the same price, so I don't have to think about pricing every time :) I do have lots of other beads, especially gemstone beads, that if I use them for a charm bracelet I'll figure out the price to see if it would be more or less.

The first one I made, I used myself as a guinea pig, using two shades of green and two shades of purple:

I put temporary charms on it to use as example while selling at school because I wanted to show different options. Now, I've taken them all off and even wore is yesterday without any charms at all and it still looks beautiful :) I'm going to slowly add charms that mean something to me - first will be a little honey bee charm because that's my nickname to my sweet boy <3

Here are two of the options I wanted to showcase:

There's a heart locket, because I wanted to show that they could go great on lockets. Even the larger size I have would work well, though not for me because I don't like anything very big - I have VERY tiny wrists, so it would just look ridiculous. Also, there's a fleur de lis stamp - I have many design stamps that I could use on my 12mm or 15mm tags (I would suggest 12mm like shown so there's not awkard blank space). Also, can be stamped with initials or short names - on 15mm I could put a design stamp and probably up to 7, maaybe 8 characters. Lots of opportunities not explored! (Another idea - a Swarovski heart could be used as a charm, though it wouldn't stand out as much)

Here's one of the bracelet "blanks" (no charms) I made up to show at my table at school:

Very pretty!

The Official Stuff:
Bracelet style as shown without charms: $17 (it may seem expensive, but it takes time to put them together and it uses genuine Swarovski crystals and Preciosa druks, best quality of their kinds!)
Charm price varies, but most are $2. You can see the pictures in this album on Facebook. Eventually I'll get a picture with my design stamps...
You can pick 1-4 colors of druks beads, and I'll use corresponding crystals colors.
Options: Ruby, Orange, Yellow, Honey, Emerald Green, Mint Green, Teal, Aqua, Ice Blue, Sapphire Blue, Cobalt Blue, Turquoise Blue, Montana Blue, Pink, Lavender, Amethyst, Clear, Mocca, Smoke/Black Diamond, Opaque Red, Opaque Orange, Opaque Yellow, Opaque Light Blue, Opaque Blue, Opaque Dark Blue, Opaque Pink, Opaque White, Opaque Black.