Merit Badge!

[featherynscale]

I forgot, too, that I learned a clever and efficient way of making beaded drop earrings this weekend. I usually shy away from making earrings for a number of reasons. I don't wear different earrings with different outfits, (I have pretty much a single pair that I wear all the time), and so I don't usually think about making any. Also they require a lot more patience and precision than the other things that I do make. Of course, they also require less materials than my other stuff, but generally I have more materials than I have patience and precision, so you can see how that goes.

But I sorted out how to make them out of the same flexible wire I prefer for making other stuff out of, and suddenly, they're pretty easy. I made three pairs, in fact, which actually go with some of my other pieces. People always ask for the damned things, I might as well make it so that I can have some to sell to them.

So that's another merit badge. :) I've been all about the merit badge of late, for which I credit ebonypearl. Her woodspirits group talks about a proposal for a group for adults which serves some of the same purposes as scouting for kids: getting together, having a good time doing things, learning new skills, service work, and so on. It would have an awards system based on "Pearls": as I understand it, each group (or individual) would sort out what colors of beads or other small shiny things would represent what type of experience or acheivement, and then you'd have a banner or a sash or something that you would sew a Pearl on every time you did something. I think that's pretty damned nifty.

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[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Further suggestion:

Create a Live Journal community, and then, before anyone joins, come up with at least ten Badge-Worth accomplishments, and have them set up ahead of time as goals for people to attain.

Some Off-The-Top-of-my-head Ideas:

• Forward Thinker: Planning for retirement, 401k
  Image: Wheelchair/walker, with a colostomy bag hanging from it.
  
• Homeowner: Having a Mortgage
  Image: A 'Home' web browser icon.
  
• Overlord: Having at least three minions
  Image: Blank face, with either a handle bar mustache, or the Mirror Universe Goatee.
  
• Work Ethics: Having time off left at the end of the year
  Image: An empty "in" box, and full "out" box.
  
• Parent: Birthing and raising a child through age five.
  Image: A dirty diaper.
  
• Parent Success: All of your children have moved out of the house. (Either into a college dorm, or elsewhere.)
  Image: an empty birds nest.
  
• Grandparent: Your child having a child of their own.
  Image: A full sized bird looking at a smaller bird, who is guarding a nest of eggs.
  
• Totaled: Surviving a car accident.
  Image: Wrecked car
  
• Survivor: Surviving major surgery/life threatening illness
  Image: Scalpel.
  

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

You win.

Unfortunately, I'd only have like....2 maybe 3 off that list.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

I'd only have four of those, myself.

And another one I just thought of (That I wouldn't have)

• Jailbird: Spent at least a night in jail.
  Image: A man in jail. In an orange jump suit if serving a sentence longer than a year, and having the old fashioned stripes and a ball and chain if longer than 10 years.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have any of them :)