The delightful excesses of smartphone maximalism
“Girl not to upset you but how will that fit in your pocket?”, a small DIY craft studio in Flushing, Queens. It’s easier still to pick and choose the charms for your phone case. The hard part is finding the self-control to stop.
For $39.99, customers get a new transparent silicone case for their phone, plus all the charms, beads, and figurines they can fit. The charms are secured to the case using a superstrength “whipped cream” glue that looks like frosting but is thicker and tackier. Customers pick a plastic frosting nib that gives the cake-like effect, and Emily gives a quick lesson on how to hold the squeeze tube to make the glue look tidy.
After I carefully press in the charms on the bed of piped glue, Emily places the phone cases in clear plastic carrying boxes with a handle at the top — like something a slice of birthday cake would be delivered in. Several days later, once the glue seems like it has fully dried, I pop off the battered, plain dark blue case that I purchased when I got my phone and replace it with the stuffed animal-laden decoden case from Cutes House.
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