First Degree

Wow! I'm loving scrapping and i'm loving challenges! This one was from The Meadow, and it was fun--and challenging! My submission is "1st Degree", and its focus is Commencement Weekend at my alma mater, 25 years ago (please click the image to see a larger view):



The journaling reads:

Finally!!
Graduating at 31 yrs old...
I say that as if i want to leave. Could anything be further
from the truth? A lot of the young women do not recognize this place as the real world, but i do. I have been happy in this real world and will miss it. I hope i can return someday. In the meantime, i now have my first “degree”; i wonder if it will make any difference to the world? Will it be my only degree or just first of many? Wishful thinking, i suppose, but then, look where that last wishful thought led me... Gotta go pack: have to be out of my dorm room by noon tomorrow...

The little note reads:

chisolm what did
she mean when she
said that
Gwen going to philly get
her to record CB Xmas or
play one more time
addresses: nicole, jean, michele, barbara, uhaul
phone number so tired...

Shirley Chisolm was speaker at our Baccalaureate Service the morning of Commencement. She was a visiting professor during my last year and for a couple of years after. I used to see her walking to campus in the morning...

As i was wandering among the many, many freebies that we are so privileged to receive, i came across a lovely, word art freebie that had a saying attributed to Gandhi. I wanted to use it on my page, but was not able to be in touch with the designer in time to include the changed design on the page. However, i want to share the paraphrased quote with you: I was graduating from a women's college and having things addressed to me as a woman puts things in a context that some do not understand. Yet, that context is meaningful to me:

A woman is but the product of her thoughts...what she thinks...she becomes...--GANDHI (paraphrased).

OK, i think that's enough chatter for today. Thanks for stopping by and listening!

Credits for "1st Degree"

"Shiny Wired Alpha", "Shiny and Rusty Pins and Brads", "Yellow and White Stitches", "WireWords" and "Rusty Yellow Flower" from "Playing with Wire Wire Flower with Gems Freebie", "Playing with Wire Wire Alpha" and "Weeds and Wildflowers Freebie Challenge 5's Wire Words Freebie", all ©2007 by Gina Marie Huff--Owner and Designer at Weeds & Wildflowers Design.
"Template #15" ©Jill & Jack ScrapDesigns
"Paper" (green) from "Flowers by BPAK", ©Scrap Hobby.
Journaling "Paper2" and "Paper3" from "Papers by Manu70", ©Manu70.
"Fresh Pineapple Flowers" paper from "Simply Delicious Flower Papers" kit, ©Amaterasu, of NoctisMedius Designs.
Font used is "Duchess"
Photos taken by my dear friend, Michele S.
Scrapped by ME!