Last year when I was in my ‘craft-or-die’ mode, I created a pair of paper earrings.

I took my daughter out for the day, did some shopping, and went back to my moms house.

She looked at my paper earring creations that I’d been flaunting for the previous 6 hours, and shamelessly asked, “Did you actually wear those OUTSIDE today?”

I paused, “Yeah… I did.”

“Well please don’t wear them again. You need more practice before you’re ready for prime time.”

My mom was right. I looked at those earrings the other day and just laughed.

I’ll leave the paper jewelry making to the people who actually know what they’re doing.

Like Jennifer Lownie at Paper Jewels. She does a much better job. They have a cool, almost vintage-like look to them.