Inspired by the blog post from 1950's Atomic Ranch House, I am showing you two charm bracelets: 
I acquired this bracelet at an estate sale so I don't know much about it, nor have I ever seen one like this. It's heavy, chunky and vintage. The far left charm says, "Millie Vangorden," the next charm is like a pot or urn with a screw top that I can't open, the third charm is a cigarette lighter (marked Golden Wheel Lighter) on the bottom and the final charm is of course, a fleur-de-lis.
The second one is my personal silver charm bracelet that I used to wear a lot but not anymore; it definitely has a lot of my life history but my life has changed a lot since I've acquired the charms, so maybe I just need to remove the "out of date" pieces. Anyway, here's more detail:
Going left to right, the "Z" charm stands for Catherine Zeta-Jones, one of my favorite actresses, given to me my my dear friend Marcia. The next one is a vintage charm for my high school, then a Celtic cross (some of my family ancestry is Welsh), a vintage charm that says, "Giovanni," USA charm and one with my name. That one is sentimental for me since it was on a bracelet from my childhood, given to me by my father.
Next up: A Chianti wine bottle, a charm with the fleur-de-lis (both these were purchased in Firenze, Italy! The back of the fleur-de-lis has the Medici family crest), a diploma for my college graduation, a four-leaf clover, and the Cape Hatteras lighthouse (a favorite holiday destination).
The heart charm is from my mommy, a cross, a "Big Sister" charm from my little sister, snorkel fin and tube, a crown, cat sitting on a crystal ball, cowboy boot and two kitties, which depicted the cats that I had but my ex got them in the divorce! Charm bracelets are interesting because they're conversational. People like to look at the charms and why you have them on your wrist!
Here are some of the cupcakes I made and took to a poker party. Did you know that Michael's stores have a baking line by Duff of Charm City Cakes (Ace of Cakes on TV)? He has baking pans, cake mix, frosting, fondant, kits, etc. Pretty cool! So I used the white cake mix and decorated with edible silver glitter, blue Pop Rocks candy, mini M&M's candy and small Chiclets gum. I'd have to say the cupcakes were a hit!
I am a little obsessed with watching the cake shows (Cake Boss, Ace of Cakes) and the cupcake shows (Cupcake Wars and DC Cupcakes). Do you watch these?
Here's a mama dove, roosting on her nest above our garage!
A surprise gift from the love of my life! A Dia de los Muertos Catrina figurine in blue with glitter. See the blue roses in her mouth? He gives me the best gifts <3>
Incoming package from Gemma in the U.K. She spent her holidays on the Isle of Wight, accessible by ferry. I love these perfect seashells! What a wonderful surprise in yesterday's mail.
More incoming mail from overseas with a sideways picture. Gemma's letter (England), pinup girl envelope from Claudia in Italy, Anna-Danute from Russia and fruity envelope from Ann-Catrin in Finland. I just signed up for "Happy Mail," which is an mail/package exchange and I received a lot of cool crafty items from Mandy in Germany (husband is stationed there in the service).
Here's the back of the envelope from Italy with more pinups, a London tube map and some of Claudia's original art postcards! These will be mailed out in the near future.
Here's what was inside the envelope from Finland. I like how Ann-Catrin writes to me -- she doesn't sit down and write all at one time, but approaches letter writing more in diary form, so each postcard and paper typically has a different date. She sends me such lovely postcards, which are often original photographs she has had made of the area in Northern Finland where she lives. My writing relationship with her is similar to the one with my longtime correspondent in Japan -- all snail mail and no Facebook or email. 
I received a wonderful first letter from a Postcrosser in Russia! Her English is very good. She sent me three cards with her letter; the beer card is a vintage advertisement. She sent the purple card since it's my favorite color (it's from Ikea!) and another cool vintage-style card. She wrote me back because when I sent her postcard (in an envelope), I included a bunch of used stamps for her stamp collection, which made her very happy.
Now for my outgoing mail for tomorrow: Many postcards for Postcrossers, a letter to Colorado and a New Jersey postcard themed postcard for Miss Natalie from Nutley. The envelope with the colorful cowboy stamps is going to a Postcrosser in Finland; on her profile she asked for copies of autographs for her collection. So I copied a photo of actress Melanie Griffith, a note signed by Bill Clinton and a copy of my letter from Michelle Obama (all with signatures!).
