Learn a New Language Badge

The Face of the Shrub

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Step One: You share jokes with your friends across a crowded room, or you can carry on a conversation with your hearing-impaired friends because you learned ASL. You plan to spend the weekend cozied up to [...]

Entertaining Badge

Pi Row

Originally uploaded by nodigio

Step One: You enter your livingroom and see it filled with friends having a good time. One friend holds a couple of listeners rapt as he tells a story, the music you’ve chosen has compelled a couple to dance, [...]

Cooking Badge

The DinnerOriginally uploaded by nodigio
This is a general Cooking Badge – Badges may be earned for specialty cooking, and pearls for expanding one’s skills in areas where badges have already been earned.
Step One: When you get invited to a potluck, you don’t have to worry about stopping in at a fast food [...]

WoodSpirits Logo

Maple Roses
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The WoodSpirits logo is a winged acorn, green because brand new acorn are green, with wings of gold. It suggests that our ideas and beginnings have wings, are going places. They aren’t going to rot on the ground. It’s a single acorn because we earn our [...]

Wine Appreciation Badge

Holy Ail Front
Originally uploaded by nodigio
Step One: When you order wine at a fine eatery, you sniff and swirl your sample sip with panache, confident that your choice will perfectly complement the meal you order. When you serve a fine meal at home, your dinner guests will rave over the Savignon [...]

Get Published Badge

Practical Handbook
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Step One: You walk into Barnes and Noble or Borders or Books a Million, and there, front and center, is a display of your book. The librarian tells you copies of your book are always checked out. You see people reading your book at the park [...]

Gardening Badge

Golden Globe Tomatoes
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Step One: Imagine stepping outside your door – onto your little apartment patio or into a 5 acre paradise – and plucking the ingredients for your salad. Maybe you don’t have a patio, but you do have a shelf with a gro-light, and a couple of [...]

Writing Badge

NaNo at Red Cup 11/15 2
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Step One: Visualize riding a bus and seeing someone reading a book you wrote and published. Visualize responding to fanmail about your stories. Visualize sitting at a table in a bookstore, autographing your book for a line that stretches out the door. [...]

Activist Badge

Itzl in the snow
Originally uploaded by nodigio
Step One:
Everyday, the news and the internet are filled with causes that are just crying out for help. You read them and instead of getting mad, you are motivated to do something. So go there: visualize the cause that motivates you the most. [...]

Deliciously Dangerously Daring Badge

All the Muses I’ve Made
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Deliciously Dangerously Daring Badge (also known as the 3-D Badge)
This is the first badge every person joining WoodSpirits should do.
Step One:
Visualize yourself following your dreams. Imagine taking a bow with Barishnikov because you were his dancing partner. Imagine being in the cockpit of a [...]