What kind of badge do you have?

[_Lisa_]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I think that's diamonds and rubies, not pearls and rubies/garnets

Ahh...thanks for the correction!

[SigKapSweetie]

I have the gold with pearls and 3 amethyst points. It's my family badge - my big, grandbig, and one of my littles have the same one.

ufdale, I'm glad to hear you're having such a good time! The skydiving sounds so cool! I really miss being a collegiate Beta Tau. When is initiation? If I don't have an exam that week, I'd love to come up.

[ufdale]

Depinning is November 3 and initiation is November 5!
My badge is the same as Lisas. I would have like to have gotten the family badge, but we get our bigs too late. I didn't know what my family badge was when I turned in my badge order.

Has anyone ever lost their badge?

[ufdale]

SigKapSweetie, which family are you in?

[SigKapSweetie]

I'm in the frog family, although I don't know if anyone who's still an undergrad member has that badge. I know Brooke bought the silver scroll badge instead; I don't know about the rest of the family.

Who's your big?

I know Heather M lost her badge a few years ago after chapter, but I don't know what she did to replace it. I do know that we searched that entire house, inside and out, after that chapter meeting. We even searched the balcony and the lawn!

[BetteDavisEyes]

I've got the scroll border badge in silver. I've been saving up to get the WG pin w/garnet points & pearls. I adore that badge.

[stargrl272]

I lost my badge. We were doing pledging in our suite and we had our pins inverted. When I leaned over to get my bag, my badge fell off my dress. I'm really sad cause I know it has to be in someone's bag or something like that, but I've been looking for it and sending out mass e-mails since then (and that was September 7) and no one has said they have it. So I'm ordering a new one.
Speaking of what kind of badge, mine was (and will be) white gold with alternating pearls and amethysts. I love it!

[SigKapCoug]

We do yarn tangle around a small section of the chapter house and some of the bigs choose to attach a family shirt or costume jewelry and hints. like for example she and i had matching t-shirts and mardi gras beads.

My little was 1000% convinced her big was someone else and kept telling everyone thats who she though it was, so we made up a bunch of clues that sound like the other sister, but apply to me too. my little was SO shocked to fiind out I was her big! haha.

Okay, back on topic.

I wish i had a WG pin but at the time my NM educator didn't know how to order it in WG. I've grown to like the YG, though.

[SoCalGirl]

I have the super basic one with chapter guard. We didn't have the SS option and WG was more than I wanted to spend.

[ufdale]

First when I arrive tomorrow we get our family shirts. Then we do the tangled string thing (across the whole house and outside) and then at the end of the string is a baby shoe (SHOE hunt). You then find your big with the matching shoe. I can't wait! I have no idea who my big is because my clues were rather vague: I love gators (who doesn't?!), I love the beach (yeah it's florida)... It's a good thing they were vague though because I totally would have stalked my potential bigs on facebook and would have had it figured out by now! I just love how they hand made everything... so cute!

[SigmaKappaRoyal]

in our chapter the bigs decorate a candle for their little. in some families they decorate it the exact same way every year for every little. then they have all the new members get in a circle facing out and light their candles, and then all the actives (whether they have a little that time or not) surround the new members in a circle facing in. then the actives walk counter clockwise and sing "it only takes a spark" and we walk round and round the new members. everyone fakes blowing out new members candles, and at some point the real big blows out her real little's candle. it's funny because no one does it at the same time so you eventually are left with a few girls circling one or two final girls who are confused because they don't seem to have a big yet!

[iastategal]

My badge is the yellow gold pin, with pearls and the 3 amethyst points.

[ufdale]

Do you all know if there was an "original" badge? Or what the founders had?

[_Lisa_]

The first badge design was what we now use as the New Member pin:



But in 1894 the triangle badge was chosen, I believe with the scroll edge, although I'm not sure if it was gold or silver.

[Drolefille]

I suspect gold as the silver and white gold seem to be newer additions.