Bracelet ideas?

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Looking for ideas from you crafty girls.

I'd like to make a special friend a bracelet with a few words written/embroidered/something in it. I've never done metalworking, nor am I willing to really try as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

My current idea is very poor, but it revolves around sewing some sort of tiny little strip of fabric, and embroidering the sentence, but I think it'd just end up looking very messy and not too clean. Do you guys have any other ideas?

How durable are shrinky dinks? If I made a sort of flat plate with two punched holes, and then used string to create the other half of the bracelet, would it break easily?

Thanks for any help you can offer!