Best Books On Charms And Charm Bracelets

Invariably you end up with a few books on charms if you're a charm lover. It goes with the territory.

One tip is to check out the second hand books. If you look at the images below you'll see that there is a Best Price and often this is substantially lower than the Buy New price. The Best Price amount is for a second hand book and once you're on the Amazon page, beside the picture you'll see something like "16 new from $11.45, 22 used from $4.20". Click thorugh on that "used" and you will see a list of the books and what condition they are in.

Some folk want their books shiny new but I have bought second hand books from Amazon that have been in immaculate condition and at a greatly reduced price.

If you're looking for books on charms then Charmed Bracelets by Tracey Zabar is one of the best.

Lots of good reviews about it - one bad review from someone claiming that it did not tell her how to make charm bracelets. Hello!!!! If she'd read what the book was about she would have know it wasn't going to do that.

If she wanted instructions on making charm jewelry then A Charming Exchange: 25 Jewelry Projects To Create & Share is the book she should have chosen.

Zabar describes how she got into designing charm bracelets:

"Determined to wear a charm bracelet I loved, I set out to make my own. The first time I wore one, a woman begged me to sell it to her right off my wrist, right there in the middle of a New York City bus. After that, anytime I wore one of my bracelets, fabulous, gorgeous women, young and old, insisted on giving me their telephone numbers and taking mine in the hopes of acquiring a bracelet. Soon I realized I had struck an emotional goldmine and hurried to make four more charm bracelets, which became the beginning of my very first jewelry collection for the store Barneys New York. A business was born, and I became a jewelry designer."