In the summers when I was a kid, I spent the days at the swimming pool. And when I wasn’t at the swimming pool, I was making friendship bracelets. I would pin them to my knee (because that’s what the cool kids did), and sit down in front of the TV and make these awesome bracelets. Mine were always kind of little, because I was afraid of making the big fat wide ones. But all the high school kids had hundreds of them, up and down their arms. Well, my kiddo has been coming home in recent months with bracelets up and down his arms. The little plastic woven ones. They can get really complicated. They are normally given to him by friends (girls for the most part, which is still kind of adorable.) So I thought…well hell, I can do that. No problem. I can be represented in a vintage way. So I made a couple. They took FOREVER. and EVER. Of course I wanted to make a complicated one which required watching several you tube videos made by 15 year olds who like totally went really fast so I totally had to rewind a million times. (Here it is in case you were wanting to make one…I used 12 strings instead of 8. )
And since I don’t want to wear it all the time, I decided to put it on a couple pieces of cheap leather from Michaels, which is also hard work and now my fingers really hurt from sewing it, but that’s beside the point. I have to say, it brought back great memories from childhood to make them, which in the summer time, is never really a bad thing.
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