One of the fun things about Pinterest is when people pin random things from your childhood that you had totally forgotten about.

Suddenly everyone on Pinterest is pinning friendship bracelets. I hadn't even thought about them in ages, but suddenly I remember how fun they were to make and wear.

Lousy iPhone picture, taken at night...

I decided to see if I could still make them, for the kids, and the nieces and nephews, who, having not grown up in the 80's may not have ever had a handmade bracelet, and the status that went along with that. ;)

There are boatloads of tutorials on the net, but my standby resource is an old copy of Knot Now. (I don't have a laptop, so sometimes I'd rather just have a book to take along for projects than print 15 pages worth of tutorials.)

I cranked out a couple in an evening, and explained their meaning to V, who was quite proud of being my "best friend,", and had to go explain the whole thing to her daddy.