222 Wisconsin Jewelry Set

222 Wisconsin Jewelry Set

Object: Wisconsin pin with cow earrings and necklace

Acquired: Unknown

From: Mom, who got it at a garage sale

Notes: The two cows on the pin (state) are actually earrings, so you can store them with the pin and necklace. I suppose you could also were them as just cows on the state, but I'm personally more likely to wear earrings than a pin, especially a pin that has two holes in it.

I like these too much to get rid of, although I've almost never worn them.

220 Girl Scout Pin

220 Girl Scout Pin

Object: Girl Scout Pin

Acquired: Unknown

From: Unknown

Notes: I have a lot of GS stuff, I can't be expected to recall where all of it comes from, sheesh. I think this is a 'classic' style pin, and no longer the "official" one.

219 Darth Vader Pin

219 Darth Vader Pin

Object: Darth Vader Hat Pin

Acquired: I think sometime in middle school

From: My parents

Notes: There were actually two of these little hat-pins of Star Wars characters, although I'm no longer sure who the other one was (one of the droids, certainly). I believe Ella and I split the two pins between us, so she got the other one, although I don't recall for sure.  I do know that the pin is older than my middle school, since my parents are actually Star-Wars fans, and we have several random and unexpected bits of original memorabilia, like the Darth Vader cake pan. Or the ceramic mugs made the shape of Yoda's head.

218 CIT Pin

218 CIT Pin

Object: Counselor In Training pin

Acquired: 1999

From: The CIT program at my summer camp

Notes: 1999 and being a CIT was one of the best summers I spent at camp. It's when I got my camp-name of 'Qui', and it was one of the first years that I actually had friends at camp. Friends who liked me, and whom I enjoyed being around. It was a curious state of affairs.  There were some low points, too, like the mouse that had a baby in my pajamas (inside my suitcase, AAAAHHHH), and...I didn't like everyone in the program. But I had a lot of fun, and I got this pin proving that I'd gone through the program.

217 Babysitter Pin

217 Babysitter Pin

Object: Red Cross Babysitter pin

Acquired: Unknown

From: Red Cross babysitting class

Notes: I think I took the class with my girl scout troop, and we learned some proper babysitting techniques. And then I never babysat anyone. I mean, I wasn't the oldest child, so if we/my little sister needed to be babysat, our older sister was asked, and if someone non-family needed to be babysat, my older sister had experience and confidence and was at least as available as I, so she always did it.

But I don't think she had a pin.

216 Girl Scout Pin

216 Girl Scout Pin

Object: Cadette Girl Scout Challenge pin

Acquired: Unknown

From: The Girl Scouts?

Notes: I must have completed a Cadette challenge of some sort, but I'll be damned if I remember it.  I do recall that my troop was working towards our silver award for a while, but I didn't do all the stuff to earn it, so this certainly isn't from that.

215 Tajar Pin

215 Tajar Pin

Object: Safety pin wrapped with masking tape and string

Acquired: Unknown

From: A Tajar party

Notes: This was a camp tradition based on a silly kids' book. I'd say more about it, but since it's a 'super secret society' I don't think I should...

214 CBH Anniversary Pin

214 CBH Anniversary Pin

Object: Pin

Acquired: 1996?

From: Camp Black Hawk

Notes: I think this was given to meas just one of the things that I got for being at camp one year.  I'm not sure if it was a few years late and given as a left-over, or if it was given to everyone in '96. But either way I have this pin now.  I went to the 50th anniversary, too, but I don't think they gave me a pin.

213 Turtle Shell Pin

213 Turtle Shell Pin

Object: Golden Turtle Shell Pin

Acquired: 2005 College Graduation

From: Beloit College

Notes: This might have been from donating money as well as graduating, but I don't really remember.  Beloit College's emblem (but not it's mascot) is the turtle, and I just read an article in Beloit Magazine about how the turtle is entwined into Beloit's past. I like turtles, so it was a good school for me.

196 Pin

196 Pin

Object: Pin made with 'puffies' and ribbon roses

Acquired: Unknown

From: I made it

Notes: My mom used to make fancy greeting cards, and for several years the focus of the card would be one of these puffy shapes--though usually smaller ones.  I made a few crafts with them from time to time, including this pin.  The roses sometimes went into the cards, too.

181 Fish Jewelry Set

181 Fish Jewelry Set

Object: Fish Jewelry Set

Acquired: Unknown

From: These were a gift from my godmother

Notes: You can tell the scale from the hand (that's my hand! Something else I own!). They are too big and too brightly colored for me to ever really wear, but I keep them because they were a gift from my godmother, and even if she's not a fairy, there's sure to be something magical about them....right?