Back in the day, I used to spend hours and hours to finish several friendship bracelets for my BFFs and some I actually sold to classmates who didn't have the patience and time to even finish one.  I used embroidery threads of different colors and carefully tied knots one by one meticulously to create a lovely present to my close friends.

It came as a lovely surprise to me that this retro-trend exists now in a form or rubber loom bands.  The first few times I heard about it and read it online, I thought to myself, those looming sets are not going to be seen at home ever because I don't have a daughter.  I was WRONG!

My school boy Dandre is hooked into looming and was influenced by his classmates.  

I asked, "Isn't that for girls only?"  

He replied, "Of course not Mommy!  Other boys in school my tropas aslo wear and make loombands po."

Ok then.  He was the one who taught me to loom would you believe.  Here was my first loom band creation: