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🧵 FOR THE LOVE OF SILK…
🏜️ Make bracelets with us!
✨ Make your first silk bracelet stack for only $98.
🏆 Starter Kit Challenge = $20 Gift Card

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23 days ago

✨ Introducing: The Silk Diary — 2026 ✨

✍️ A year-long practice in presence, beauty, and becoming. Open to all.

📓 Beginning Thursday, January 1, 2026 and ending December 31, 2026, we’ll wear and witness a daily Silk Bracelet Stack — a visual diary of what our bracelet stacks reveal in us.

📖 How to Participate:
 1️⃣ Post your stack to stories daily (as often as you can — everyday is not required & you may join anytime). Every stack must include at least one silk bracelet — made by Pretty by JL, Pretty by You, or by someone else.

2️⃣ Create your Silk Diary Highlight
 – Screenshot this image – Add it to your story – Tap through until you arrive at it – Tap the Highlights heart at the bottom → then ➕ to create a new bubble – Name it: Silk Diary This image will automatically become your highlight cover.
 💡 Do this **before** posting your first stack & again when your highlight fills up (some of us will end up with 4 of these).

Your diary home is ready. 🤍

3️⃣ **Optional** Post a weekly carousel (your weekly “chapter”) on your main feed.
 Your carousel is due each Saturday and should include the stacks from the previous week.

✨ For week one (because we begin on a Thursday): – If you post Sat 1/3 → 3 stacks – Wed 1/7 → 7 stacks – Sat 1/10 → up to 10 stacks After that, choose a weekly rhythm that works for you: Post no earlier than Wednesday, no later than Saturday each week.

🖊️ Important Notes
 • Participation is tracked by your Silk Diary highlight — please choose one Instagram account to post from. • Tag @prettybyjl in all daily stories + all weekly carousels. • Public accounts will be shared to our community Silk Diary highlight. • Private accounts may participate — just message me so I can follow you and see your diary entries. • Say as much or as little as you like in your captions.
 💫 You never owe an explanation.
 🎨 Your stacks can be pure imagery, emotion, texture, or poetry.
 📒 This is your Silk Diary.

Thank you for sharing your year with us. 🗓️
 🤩 Thank you for choosing silk as a way to see yourself.
 I can’t wait to witness what unfolds. 📚

#PrettybyJL #SilkDiary2026 #SilkDiary by @prettybyjl

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10 months ago

Someone asked me how to order more colors — and I realized the answer is actually a lot.
So I broke it down. 🧵

Bookmark this if you’re new here or just figuring out how it all works. DM me and I’ll send the links straight to your inbox.

Comment FOUNDER and I’ll send you everything you need to get started inside Silk Bracelet Skool. ✨ by @prettybyjl

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3 months ago

Do what you love and don’t stop. 🤍
#prettybyjl #silkbracelet #jewelry by @prettybyjl

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✨ Make this with me.

Single Strand Luxe Bar Twist Silk Bracelet — minimalist perfection. Save this and follow along.

To make the twist:

1️⃣ Twist each strand to the right until tightly twisted. 2️⃣Without letting go, twist them together to the left.
3️⃣ Tie off and center your Luxe Bar.
4️⃣ Repeat the twist, tie off, and finish the piece.

💡 Silk bracelet finishes are taught in Silk Bracelets 101 inside Silk Bracelet Skool.

This is where the friendship bracelets of your youth meet the woman wearing silk bracelets. Do you want to try this?! 🦋

📚 Full tutorial in Pretty by You Together 121 inside Silk Bracelet Skool

✔️ Comment FOUNDER and I’ll send you the steps to start making silk bracelets yourself

#bracelet #handmadejewelry #diybracelets #bracelettutorial #silkbracelet by @prettybyjl

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2 days ago

Hi, friend. 🫶

I’m JL — I’ve been making silk bracelets by hand for 14 years and live on a ranch in the High Desert of Colorado.

What you just watched me make is an Embellished Fairy Luxe Bar Free Flow silk bracelet — burnt and minty fairy ribbon, white gold floss, and genuine turquoise beads from an old piece of jewelry that broke.

Here’s what’s happening here:

Every Wednesday I go live on Instagram to make a silk bracelet so you can see what’s possible with the silk, and you can order the piece I make before it retires on Friday.

Every Tuesday I teach inside Silk Bracelet Skool — an online community where people learn to make silk bracelets themselves. We make together, we share what we make, and we’ve become real friends through the silk.

If you want to make pieces like this yourself — that’s exactly what Silk Bracelet Skool is for. This style was taught there and the playback can be accessed the moment you become a member.

The silk will give you butterflies. It has a way of tapping into your youth while combining it with the woman you’ve become. We often refer to our bracelets as grown up friendship bracelets 🦋

For a limited time, join at the annual rate and get a free Custom Artist’s Choice Starter Kit created from a photo you send me — you just pay shipping. Right now you can save 68% by signing up for the annual membership versus paying monthly — the annual price nearly doubles at 100 members. Be one of the next 55 people to join to lock-in this rate.

Comment FOUNDER and I’ll send you the details and steps to get started. 🫶 by @prettybyjl

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3 days ago

Super Chunky Braid — Our first best selling style… Do you like it with a little fairy ribbon? 🧚‍♂️

⏳ Today is the day you can order a piece made by me! Order now—She retires Friday.

🎥 Every week we go live and make something together—Watch the full episode of MWJLL 351 back in the previous @prettybyjl Instagram post + find even more detail in that caption.

🔗 in bio to order. by @prettybyjl

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4 days ago

Make with JL Live 351: I sent this beautiful inspiration in and we NAILED it! This was a fun one to see come together live 🤩

🚨 Order now - This piece retires Friday! *You will receive a bracelet and not making supplies.

🏆 Join us in Silk Bracelet Skool to learn how to make silk bracelets yourself for $49/mo or $190/yr… Get your Custom Starter Kit + a 50 minute Private Make Session with me FREE with the annual membership — a $299 value!

Here’s what we made 👇

🏔️ Fairy Super Chunky Braid- Aqua F.R., *Light Teal, Pale Blue, White + Hunter F.R., Pine, Sage, Green Clay + Chocolate F.R., Copper, Chestnut, Light Taupe w/natural wax

📧 Send color palettes to jl@prettybyjl.com with MWJLL in the subject.

🎥 See you for #makewithjllive 352 next Wednesday at 2pm MST!

🩵 JL @jennylorrainecandelaria

#prettybyjl #silkbracelet #bracelet by @prettybyjl

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4 days ago

A 2 Strand Infinity takes about 15 minutes once you know what you’re doing. A Wide Heart Friendship Bracelet takes about 3 hours.

Most pieces fall somewhere in between — and every single one is worth the time it takes.

That’s kind of the point.

Comment FOUNDER and I’ll send you the steps to start making silk bracelets yourself. 🤍 by @prettybyjl

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a month ago

Private Make Session or $50 gift card — which would you choose? Drop your answer below. 🤎

Someone wins these tomorrow. These are my Q3 Make Challenge pieces — an Embellished Fairy Luxe Bar Lil’ Mama Twist and two Embellished Fairy Luxe Bar Free Flows — and they are going to the winner of the Instagram vote.

Votes close tonight at midnight your time. Head to my previous post to cast yours now.

Tomorrow inside Silk Bracelet Skool we also announce:
🏆 Skool Peer Vote Winner
🏆 JL’s Pick

Both winners choose between a Private Make Session with me or a $50 gift card.

Quarterly Make Challenges are one of the most loved parts of a Silk Bracelet Skool membership. We do four a year — and every single one surprises me.

We’re 55 Founder spots from drawing the Obsession Bundle winner — $1,749 in every silk color and fairy ribbon, plus three private sessions with me. Every member who joins before we hit 100 is automatically entered.

Comment FOUNDER and I’ll send you the steps to get started making silk bracelets yourself. 🤎

Comment BUY to have a silk bracelet suite like this made for you ($675) and I’ll message you your options✨ by @prettybyjl

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7 days ago

Voting is closed. 🤎✨

The Silk Bracelet Skool Q3 Make Challenge is here — and these makers brought chocolate to life in ways I never could have anticipated.

Swipe through to see every submission — the captions change with each photo, so keep reading as you go.

How to vote:
Comment the NUMBER and NAME of your favorite suite below. **Example: 3 Diane**

One vote per person. You may vote for yourself and invite friends and family to vote too — but multiple votes from the same account will be disqualified.

Voting closes Monday night (midnight your time).

The winner receives:
The 3-piece crystal embellished suite I made for the challenge — an Embellished Fairy Luxe Bar Lil’ Mama Twist and two Embellished Fairy Luxe Bar Free Flows. 🦋

Recipes for every suite are available inside Silk Bracelet Skool.

Comment FOUNDER and I’ll send you the steps to join us. 🤎

1️⃣ Tish 🤎 @groovinstacks

‘I knew I wanted to incorporate shades of purple with chocolate — and then my mind went completely out of the box.’

When Tish’s mind goes out of the box, something remarkable happens. Two years into making and she created a silk necklace for the first time — an Abstract Rag Heart Chain Necklace — alongside an Abstract Sari Chunky Braid and a Heart Chain Boho FMK.

The necklace features a faceted holographic pear drop pendant, gold heart chain, and layers of sari silk, ombre ribbon, and chocolate. She can’t wait to wear it Sunday with her bracelets! 🤎

Happiness rating: 10+++ — 100% obsessed.

Recipes available inside Silk Bracelet Skool.

2️⃣ Emily — Chocolate Truffles 🤎 @vinniegurl23

‘I sent my Pinterest pins to my mom who is a chocoholic and she chose the one to do!’

Fun fact: We used Emily’s inspiration as the cover photo of this post 🍫

Emily called her suite Chocolate Truffles — and it shows. Two years into making, this is her favorite suite she has ever made. A Fairy Chunky Luxe Bar Twist and a 4 Strand Infinity — both featuring chocolate, café, chestnut, and a rose goldish sparkle metallic yarn she’s only used once before.

She had a complete brain freeze on the infinity and tried it about 10 times, yet nailed it! 🤎

Happiness rating: 1,000,000.

Recipes available by @prettybyjl

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