Dancing Charms For Budding Ballerinas

Are you searching for a treat for a young dance fan? The best gift may be one you least expect - charms.

I previously ran a ballet store and my biggest seller was a silver ballet slipper charm pendant. Mothers and young dancers alike adored it!

That was long before today's enthusiasm for charms like Pandora and Troll. So, considering a dance charm was so sought after then, I can only imagine how sought after it would be now!

Nowadays, you will find a lot of dance-related charms and charm bracelets. There are ballet slippers (one shoe or two!), ballet dancers in a range of poses, and tutus for ballet dancers. For flamenco lovers, there are flamenco fans and sometimes, flamenco dancers. I've seen ballroom dancing couples,tap dancers, and shoes for tap, tango, Irish and Scottish dancing.

There is less choice in Pandora charms, in any of the lookalike products. Pandora charms must be fat to allow for the hole through the middle, so it's challenging to design a delicate charm which reflects the spirit of dancing. I have seen some ballet shoe charms but they are too bulky for my taste!

You will find quite a number of Pandora charms engraved with words like "dance" or "I love to dance" - and their Murano glass beads have gorgeous swirling colors which seem to be dancing all by themselves!

You will often hear the saying "lucky" charms. I always understood that meant charms shaped like a four leaf clover or a horseshoe. However I recently heard the story of a woman who got a charm bracelet for her birthday. It didn't include a horseshoe, but she soon noticed that when she wore it, things went well -and when she wasn't wearing it, things were more likely to go wrong. She didn't tell anyone else, but it finally became so obvious, even her son commented! She explained it by saying that the bracelet was given to her by her family, and the charms were chosen with care and love, so it was imbued with a special quality. Maybe that's a good reason to buy a charm bracelet!

By the way, if you're having difficulty choosing between the different charms - it may help to know that I found the ballet shoe pendant was always far more popular than similarly priced dancing figure necklaces.
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