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A Fun Way to Display Your Degrees
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I have a lot of degrees but I don't think it is appropriate to hang them on a wall, given they aren't fancy or anything. I have 3 associates degrees and all of them are in general type degrees. I also have multiple undergrad certificates which also aren't super impressive, in fact, one of them I got for taking a bunch of gen eds. I always thought it would be cool to display my degrees on a wall or office but I thought it would look pretentious and stupid. Maybe some of you are in a similar boat. If you have a bunch of degrees and want a way to display them. Here is a solution I thought of.

What I did: 

I made a photocopy of all my degrees at 25% size and instead of regular paper I used cardstock. This resulted in a bunch of tiny degrees. Then I carefully cut the miniature degrees out. I got a picture frame from the dollar store and lined the back with a piece of fancy-looking colored scrapbook paper cut to size, then I glued the degrees to the paper. After that, I put the frame back together and voila! a way to display my degrees. The end result was a single frame with multiple small degrees on it. Looks classy enough to hang on a wall and doesn't look as pretentious as hanging all the degrees. My frame was only 8" by 8" but you could do any size and if you were more classy then me buy a fancier frame. Hope this makes sense.
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(04-13-2020, 05:11 PM)natshar Wrote: I have a lot of degrees but I don't think it is appropriate to hang them on a wall, given they aren't fancy or anything. I have 3 associates degrees and all of them are in general type degrees. I also have multiple undergrad certificates which also aren't super impressive, in fact, one of them I got for taking a bunch of gen eds. I always thought it would be cool to display my degrees on a wall or office but I thought it would look pretentious and stupid. Maybe some of you are in a similar boat. If you have a bunch of degrees and want a way to display them. Here is a solution I thought of.

What I did: 

I made a photocopy of all my degrees at 25% size and instead of regular paper I used cardstock. This resulted in a bunch of tiny degrees. Then I carefully cut the miniature degrees out. I got a picture frame from the dollar store and lined the back with a piece of fancy-looking colored scrapbook paper cut to size, then I glued the degrees to the paper. After that, I put the frame back together and voila! a way to display my degrees. The end result was a single frame with multiple small degrees on it. Looks classy enough to hang on a wall and doesn't look as pretentious as hanging all the degrees. My frame was only 8" by 8" but you could do any size and if you were more classy then me buy a fancier frame. Hope this makes sense.

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(04-13-2020, 05:38 PM)shamin Wrote:
(04-13-2020, 05:11 PM)natshar Wrote: I have a lot of degrees but I don't think it is appropriate to hang them on a wall, given they aren't fancy or anything. I have 3 associates degrees and all of them are in general type degrees. I also have multiple undergrad certificates which also aren't super impressive, in fact, one of them I got for taking a bunch of gen eds. I always thought it would be cool to display my degrees on a wall or office but I thought it would look pretentious and stupid. Maybe some of you are in a similar boat. If you have a bunch of degrees and want a way to display them. Here is a solution I thought of.

What I did: 

I made a photocopy of all my degrees at 25% size and instead of regular paper I used cardstock. This resulted in a bunch of tiny degrees. Then I carefully cut the miniature degrees out. I got a picture frame from the dollar store and lined the back with a piece of fancy-looking colored scrapbook paper cut to size, then I glued the degrees to the paper. After that, I put the frame back together and voila! a way to display my degrees. The end result was a single frame with multiple small degrees on it. Looks classy enough to hang on a wall and doesn't look as pretentious as hanging all the degrees. My frame was only 8" by 8" but you could do any size and if you were more classy then me buy a fancier frame. Hope this makes sense.

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I'd love to see it too. It sounds like a neat idea!
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I'd love to see it too, even if you just black out your name/details. When I get my BSBA I'll be framing that prominently, but I have some AA's/certs that aren't really impressive on their own.
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You could also do a Collage print from somewhere like Walmart, and have your Bachelor's degree large, then your AA's smaller, and your Certificates even smaller. It's pretty cheap to do (I think I paid less than $25 for an 11x14 canvas print of our family portraits this way.

I think I might try this with my degrees - I'd never thought of it!
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Idk how to get a pic without giving away all my information. IAlso, the glass of the photo frame has a glare and I don't feel like taking it apart to get a pic.
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(04-17-2020, 06:31 PM)natshar Wrote: Idk how to get a pic without giving away all my information. IAlso, the glass of the photo frame has a glare and I don't feel like taking it apart to get a pic.

If you're interested in doing this, the easiest way would be to take the photo and then black out the PII using a paint tool and upload the result. If you don't use a flash (just strong natural light) you can usually avoid most glare.
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Very unique indeed... the only thing remotely close to what you guys have done is, I have two picture frames of the kids... one with 5 pictures shaped like a diamond and one with 4 that's an inline rectangle, I keep one downstairs beside my laptop/monitor and also the other upstairs beside my other pc. I use it as motivation to keep going when I get tired at night from school/work, etc...
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