[Magdalen] High school graduation gift?

[Ann Markle]

I do think a nice pen or a nice piece of jewelry would be lovely.  Perhaps
either would eventually get lost, but perhaps not.  I lost the first
stainless steel Cross pen I was given, with my name and the year engraved
on it.  I've since bought two more of the same pen (didn't have them
engraved), and I still think of the original giver each time I use it (or
find it, if it's not currently in use -- saw it again just today!).  If
there is something you make, even high school grads have an appreciation of
"original art."  I remember sometime in college when a friend of mine gave
me an original print that she made in an art class -- I still have it!

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> Duh!  Correction: read "Pater" beads for "Ave" beads.  The ones that are
> fewer.  Most of the beads, blue onyx.  Silver (filigree), one in eleven.
> Also silver "seed beads" for separators, since they were cord rosaries and
> necklace.
>
>
> On 5/16/15 2:54 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
>
>> On 5/16/15 1:37 PM, Jo Craddock wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sure we've been through this before, but, it's that time again...
>>>
>>> The daughter of dear friends is graduating from high school. Through a
>>> long series of events with both families, it's been difficult to keep in
>>> touch, but her mother and I were close and very involved in children's
>>> CE together at the time of graduate's birth, so I'd like to give her
>>> something meaningful, long-term, rather than dorm room kitsch. <grin>
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
>>
>> My daughter's three best friend classmates were all graduating from high
>> school at the same time that she was, and it happened that all three of
>> them were Roman Catholic, while mine wasn't even an Episcopalian, but
>> had stayed with my childhood church, Christian Church, very Protestant
>> Fundamentalist.  I was doing a lot of beadwork at the time, and I made
>> the other three very beautiful (if I do say so myself) rosaries, Blue
>> Onyx beads, Sterling Silver hardware (and Ave beads).  I made my
>> daughter a necklace, very similar, with the same beads and separator
>> beads, and one of the Ave beads instead of the center Marian medal, with
>> the crucifix hanging down in front on the then-fashionable "Y"
>> configuration, the neck part choker length.  The other girls loved
>> theirs, and so did my daughter at first.  Then she went to Christian
>> College, and took a lot of crap from her friends there about the
>> crucifix, so she didn't ever wear it to school again.  I suppose it
>> might still be in her jewelry box now.
>>
>> Which isn't a lot of help for you, but you might think of some lovely
>> bit of jewelry that would _not_ cause problems....
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Sibyl Smirl
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