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Nancy Lee, Pod, and Indiana State Fair Blue Ribbon!

Posted on August 30, 2009October 26, 2021 by Nancy Lee

Nancy, Pod (5") and Blue Ribbon — Nancy, Pod (5″) and Blue Ribbon

Thought I’d share with you the picture my studio-mate, Wug Laku, owner of wUG LAKU’S STUDIO & gARAGE took of me, Pod, and the Indiana State Fair blue ribbon, at about 9:00 PM tonight. Pod is back home with her ribbon, and I needed a picture of the three of us for an article for Business Ownership Initiative (to be published soon).
Taken after a day working in the studio at the Indianapolis Art Center, prepping for the Jewelry Smorgasbord class starting on Friday (there is still space for a few last minute-enrollments, by the way!), I was not looking forward to this! I wasn’t dressed for it – I just had on a T-shirt. But I had this nice top in the back of the studio, left there from the last opening we had. And I had a comb and lipstick. But the best part of all was the magical ingredient every girl needs to look her best in pictures: Photoshop!
Pod looks so little here! She really has a lot of character on her own. I’ll be sharing more about that, and the future Pod series, when the BOI article comes out. Please stay tuned.

Jewelry Notes

A Trip to the Indiana State Fair – with Jewelry!

Posted on July 28, 2009October 26, 2021 by Nancy Lee

Some three or four weeks ago, I finally made up my mind to enter a few pieces of my work into the Indiana State Fair.

Fair Queen Circa 19-i'mnottelling — Fair Queen Circa 19-i’mnottelling

Having a long history of familial involvement with all things “fairground,” the entry process was loaded with more emotion than one may think reasonable for such an event. I mean, after all, it’s the place you go to eat deep-fried Snicker’s bars, drink sugary Lemon Shake-Ups and eat corn-on-the-cob on a stick dripping with butter, and shuffle around manure in smelly barns, trying to keep the straw from poking through the straps of your sandals.
But, once upon a time back in my adolescent Illinois days, I entered myself in the Georgetown Fair. I didn’t enter an item. I entered me – in the queen competition. And I won. Really. So, I got my 15 minutes of fame and my picture in the local paper with Governor Big Jim Thompson (now, that dates me!).
Fast-forward a bunch of decades (I’m not telling how many) to 2009. The hunger to win again has visited, this time in search of a ribbon and some cash in place of a crown. And I entered ITEMS this time: three pieces of jewelry and one small sculpture (I was warmly encouraged by my former metalsmithing instructor Marilyn Smith at the Indianapolis Art Center – nice).
Out here on a limb, I’m posting three of the four items I entered (forgot to photograph the final pendant before I entered it! It’s from the Lavanessence Series and has an Akoya pearl and a touch of recovered gold). Do you have a favorite from the three? I’d like to know!

If you are in the area, the Indiana State Fair opens August 7 and runs through August 23. Have a Lemon Shake Up for me!

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