Smelling Bracelet Attempt #2

Smelling Bracelet Attempt #2

A few seasons ago there was a boy on our oldest sons soccer team who always wore bracelets.  Each practice and game he would show up wearing a new one.  He’d start playing and then end up tossing his bracelet to me because he forgot to take it off. Since I ended up holding his bracelets so often I got to look at a variety of what he said were cool bracelets that everybody wears. Some of these were made out of paracord with a clip as the fastener.

So when I attempted to make another smelling bracelet for my son, thoughts of this boy's bracelets came to mind.  It occurred to me that a clip would be much easier to take on and off our youngest wrists.  So I started doing some research on how to make these bracelets.  I soon learned the reason this boy was able to make so many different bracelets; there are a lot of different braids, knots and weaves that can be used for constructing these bracelets.  I eventually narrowed it down to one style of knot because of how it laid flat (a cobra weave) I thought it would not irritate his wrist.  I did find a good tutorial by: survivalist911 on you tube, called Easy Paracord Bracelet Tutorial  https://youtu.be/UKSGg2IuCLI . There were many other pretty options out there but for my son it being pretty would have been a bad thing.

After I had made the bracelets I then rubbed my body wash along the bracelets and let them dry. Once they had dried I brought them to our son.  He was really excited because he liked the color. They fit him wonderfully but when he put them up to his nose to smell them he said it smelled bad. He really, really didn’t like the smell. I was quite confused at first. I thought for sure that it was my body wash that he liked smelling when he takes my arm to smell. So I took the bracelets off his wrists and I went back to the old drawing board.