The funniest thing about it was that I wasn't even the most emotional--we had another girl who always cried at everything, and they even did a parody song about her called "No Kami No Cry." :)

That is absolutely stunning.

I just love those diamond outlines of certain badge shapes! OMG!!

Mr. BSB just returned from one of his travels with a very pretty circle necklace with diamonds around the circle (Anniversary gift). I will pretend that is my "AGD necklace" since we have circles in our crest :)!

http://www.hjgreek.com/assets/images...arge/10640.jpg

That's the closest most members will get to the diamonds -- Crown Pearl with Diamond Points.

The all-diamond Badge can only be worn by the International President.

I wish this badge option was available when I was an undergrad.

I also love the Plain badge with one tiffany diamond.

For other NPC GLOs, I think the Tri-Delt badge with the trident guard is so sharp looking, the Gamma Phi Badge is very pretty and the Pi-Phis and Kappas when they wear multiple keys or arrows looks very neat too. I just love to look at all the badges and jewelry for all the orgs...

Me too. :( I should have just not given it back. haha.

We're not permitted to keep our Alpha pins, but our Alumnae Association at the time I was initiated bought all of ours, and put them on pretty little frames as an initiation gift. It was really cute, and the next Alpha class got brand new pins!

I can remember thinking, "I wonder who wore this before I got it?" - a very cool feeling!

This is the SK badge on pendant

http://www.hjgreek.com/assets/images...large/9356.jpg

And the TriDelta badge on pendant
http://www.hjgreek.com/assets/images...large/9413.jpg

And the TriDelta pendant with shinies
http://www.hjgreek.com/assets/images...large/9366.jpg

Does anyone recall who makes the diamond Triangle for Sigma Kappa. Looks a lot like the above except solid, not outlined. I didn't see it at HJGreek.com

Oh and I found the Tri Delta ring, but it doesn't show it with the badge
http://www.hjgreek.com/assets/images...arge/10212.jpg

I love the badge on a ring. Except I already have mine soderd(so off on the spelling, but anyway) to my Trident. I keep trying to bid on another badge on ebay, so that I can have that one made into a ring (and still keep it within the Fraternity) but it keeps going out of my price range.

I LOVE the Delta Diamond, but doubt I'll be getting that anytime soon either.

Ye know, I guess I have a very poor idea of how large these badges really are! I guess it is because I've only ever seen an Alpha Xi quill and a Phi Tau badge in person and they were of a fair size (both antique). But I'm shocked by the "scale" of them when sellers compare them to pennies on e-bay...I don't know why I was envisioning them being quite a bit larger.

It is hard to judge the size of the badges in pictures...they generally are smaller than people think they would be. I know the DG badge is the same height as a dime (I just measured it;) ):)

Yeah...they're tiny! My lyre badge is about the size of my thumbnail, and my chapter guard is about the size of a quarter of my pinky nail (yes, I'm looking at it now :D ) The letters on my badge are like, one millimeter tall.

How big is your badge?

But, no matter the GLO, they really stand out! :)

My badge is about the size of my thumb nail too, safe to say.

I've only ever seen pictures of our "real" badge, although I connected with a '72 alum who has a pearl circle badge that I hope she'll show to me. Our badges and the tradition of badges has been sadly lost at Otterbein. Our current badges are probably about the size of a quarter, maybe smaller, just Tau Delta written in script and underlined by a rose.

Your badge sounds very pretty and unique. :)

Has your sorority ever thought about trying to bring the pearl circle badge back, or at least incorporating part of it into the current design?