Well couldn't find any paracord laying around the house, but I have combined the "lace bobbin" technique with some old embroidery thread and am finding that I can make little friendship bracelets with it. Just used pencils and elastics to hold the skinny threads that I otherwise would have a problem in manipulating and I can "weave" away.

So the next thing I guess is convincing the DH or my mom to make me some bobbins out of our scrap wood. Saving myself a pretty penny on buying them and also hopefully making them so they can clip into my sewing machine's bobbin winder so I can wind them easily.