Trying to go more minimal makes souvenirs a tough thing to reconcile. So I’m doing a charm for my bracelet to represent my trip. Some charms are literal, some are more representative. (Also, it would be a super bonus if I could find a charm that is from the place when I am there, but I’m not that high end of a person and jewelry stores tend to sneer at me in my hiking boots 😉 )
This necklace holds my “traveled to” charms…
From left to right:
- travel suitcase charm*
- Panama City (the dichroic looks like the embroidery the Kuna tribe does)
- Canada from when I went with my mom and my cousin to Victoria Island (I want to go more places in Canada, too)
- Passport charm* I try not to get dangly charms for my bracelet/necklace because I am fairly rough while traveling. So I don’t want to lose the item. But this one was a little too perfect to pass up.
- Blue bubbly bead for when we spread Mikey’s ashes in Hawaii as he requested
- Green snowflake for Green Bay, WI where I went once a year for the past 10 years… No I never expected that set of trips either 😉
- U.S. Flag bead- because U.S. Citizen, yo
- France charm from my study abroad
- The world*
- I need to get another Uruguay charm, the one I had didn’t stay where you could see the flag on the necklace. Irritating. But gotta wait on buying that one.
*purely decorate-y pretty beads
My bracelet keeps my wishlist separate:
- Blue bubbly charm*
- Dragon for Bhutan
- Sea turtle for the Galapagos
- Dichroic bead for the northern lights
- Cruise ship for Alaskan cruise
- Blue bubbly bead*
- Several beads that look like my little alien who travels with me on my trips…
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I have a lot of charms that I like here…some travel, some not.
