Some of you may have noticed that my preview for Mother’s Day 2013 collection was missing a few beads that I had included in the Spring 2013 First Look. The reason for this is because they will only be available at certain stores in the US! To our international readers, no need to panic, the [...]
An exclusive interview with Kathy Perras (and Snakeskin Dillos)
March 2, 2013 By 16 Comments
Many long time Trollies will automatically recognize Kathy Perras as one of the preeminent artisans to have collaborated with Trollbeads; Kathy created their incomparable Siberian Tiger bead released in 2003 and retired shortly thereafter. Later, Lise Aagaard produced a similar Tiger bead as well in 2005 which retired in 2006. These short release windows combined [...]
Pandora Chinese New Year Snake
January 22, 2013 By 11 Comments
I reported on the first appearance of the snake with CZ zodiac dangle a couple weeks ago when it began selling in Asian markets. Currently, the sparkling snake can be purchased in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia (I assume the rest of the Asian countries also have it but these are the English-speaking [...]
Pandora Year of the Snake
January 7, 2013 By 30 Comments
I reported months ago on the new style Chinese zodiac dangles that will be making an appearance in early 2013, and we finally have a date for their release in the US. The official launch will be January 25th in the US (January 14th in the UK) when we will be able to buy these [...]
Prices for Pandora Valentine’s Collection 2013
October 23, 2012 By 21 Comments
Pandora decided to split this season’s offerings into three distinct releases: An Autumn’s Tale comprising the majority of the charms, Starry Days and Starry Nights which includes the pavé collection and holiday charms, and up next is the Valentine’s Day collection. These are all listed under the fall/winter 2012 collection catalog. There will be 9 [...]
Pandora Sponsors British Pop Group Girls Aloud
October 19, 2012 By 23 Comments
It has been rumored all week that Pandora was set to sponsor a highly popular British Pop Group – Girls Aloud, for their 10 year comeback tour next year. Today, details were announced on the sponsorship and the members of Girls Aloud will be part of Pandora UK’s holiday campaign. From what I understand, Girls [...]
Exclusive gold charms available on Perlen
August 8, 2012 By 6 Comments
Several charms have recently been made available for purchase on Perlen that were originally country/location exclusives. I thought I would share the availability of these charms in a consolidated post. First, a couple of weeks ago Perlen received the gold Chinese New Year fortune bag which was supposed to be an Asian exclusive but I [...]
Introducing…Archie!
June 4, 2012 By 25 Comments
One of the things that got me into seriously collecting Pandora was the moment when I saw the Pandora staff charm. It doesn’t really have a name, sometimes referred to as “Pandora Life”, “Pandora Pride”, or the best one I’ve heard from a Pandora employee is “gibumblelion”. It’s a chimera creature with the body of [...]
Family Ties charms are released back to owners
April 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
Today is April 2nd, going on April 3rd for our readers across the pond, and some of you might have this date circled on your calendars because Pandora is releasing the Family Ties charms back to their owners! If you remember, there was some controversy back in February when it was discovered that the Family [...]
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