There’s a 10-year-old New Iberia girl who makes and sells polymer clay earrings, a hobby turned into a craft, and following a memorable afternoon moment the first week of December, her father had a suggestion for the young entrepreneur.
Justin Melancon of Maurice has been telling Stella Melancon she ought to make a deer earring, a tribute to when she harvested her first deer Dec. 6 while hunting with him on a 3,200-acre piney woods lease in Vernon Parish. The doe she brought down weighed 100 pounds.
The father, who was born and raised in Coteau, and daughter hunted earlier that day and saw three deer walk by and continue walking…