About the Bracelet Thing . . .

I'm still making bracelets.  Still enjoying it.

Some are political.

        Some mildly political, some more aggressive . . . 

Definitely leaning left.

Some are whimsical.

Some have a message.

Some are just a single word that I happen to like.  

The word might be "sparkle."

Or, it might be "fuck."

I never really plan them ahead.

I just sit down with a full table of beaded letters - some small, some larger.  Some in black and white, some in colors.

Beads, beads, beads - lots of sizes, lots of colors.

I may have just read the news and I'm feeling angry, sad, pissed, whatever.  

So I make a bracelet.

I let the beads speak.

Sort of like when characters let a writer know where they want to go, what they want to say, and who they might want to slap.

The question has been asked, "Do you sell them?"

I think probably not.

Here's why.

First, they're very cheap.  They're on elastic string that I cannot imagine will last too long before breaking from being worn often, or suffering from dryrot from non-use.

Second.  Postage costs have gone crazy.  I put three bracelets, wrapped only in tissue paper in a brown 5 x 7 envelope to mail to a girlfriend.  The Post Office charge was over  $10.00.

So.  The little bracelets pile up.  I dig through to choose a few to wear when i leave the house.  If someone notices them and mentions liking them, i will give them one or two of those I'm wearing.  Or leave one or two (non-political) behind when we leave a restaurant.  I hand them out to friends.  And if postage wasn't so high, I would mail them out to more friends willy nilly.

All that said, I'm happy to hear suggestions.  What would you do?

OR, if you really want one if these little bracelets, i would really love for you to have one (or more).  

Their original intent, as Friendship Bracelets, after all, was making them for sharing.

 but, honeys, I'm not gonna be spending $10.00 + to mail them.   ❤ 

 Wish I Could.