Only recently has it come to my attention that I am my mother’s daughter. Moments when I find myself color-coordinating my hair ties, or bargaining with my dentist (O.K. FINE. $30 for my root canal and that’s my final offer!) have a funny way of reminding me of this fact. And perhaps if I weren’t her daughter then I wouldn’t be the cripplingly sentimental, tight-hamstringed human that I am today. But then it would also probably mean none of those neon bead and lanyard bracelets I made at day camp — which, by the way, are currently back in.
At camp I struggled with capture the flag, was useless at soccer and could only get myself to run anywhere if there was a Creamsicle waiting for me at the other end. The only activity I ever enjoyed was arts & crafts, and not even the whole of it. I tried to eat the clay a couple times in pottery class. But the jewelry making part? Oh I certainly fooled around with some lanyard back in the day. In fact I slayed the box stitch.
But just in case you’re not in the business of buying twenty-year-old lanyard cobra-stitched into a bracelet from me, here are some other options to choose from. 
1. Venessa Arizaga.
Lei’d Back Bracelet.
Pink Flamingo Bracelet
2. Ginette NY.
3. Musubi.
4. Poms.
5. Aurelie Bidermann.
6. Chan Luu.
7. Frieda and Nellie.
8. Hipanema.
9. Deepa Gurnani.
10. Shashi.
