Ugly Necklace Contest (Jewelry Design Competition)

[Warren Feld]

VOTING BEGINS FOR THE UGLIEST NECKLACE IN AMERICA!
A Jewelry Design Competition with a Twist
Go to www.landofodds.com and cast your vote!



It’s difficult to do Ugly!

So our hats are off, and we offer loud applause to the 10 Semi-Finalists of The Ugly Necklace Contest. These 10 beadwork and jewelry artists have demonstrated their talents and design skills. They have been judged by a distinguished panel of six members at The Center for Beadwork & Jewelry Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. Fifty eight (58) submissions were received from many states across America between September 2002 and March of this year in response to a nation-wide call for submissions announced in the summer of 2002. The judges reviewed how well each submitted necklace met and then violated a set of ten jewelry design principles. Based on this review, the judges selected the 10 best designed, most hideous, yet still artistically and architecturally functional, Ugly Necklaces in America.

Now it’s time for America to vote for the winner – The Ugliest Necklace in America! The Ugly Necklaces of the 10 Semi-Finalists are on display on-line at www.landofodds.com/store/uglycontest.htm . Visitors to the web-site may view the necklaces, read the artists’ comments and poems they have written about them, and vote for a winner between May 6 and July 14, 2003. The winner will be awarded a $992.93 shopping spree on the Land of Odds web-site (www.landofodds.com), and the Runner-Up will receive a prize of a $399.07 shopping spree on the web-site.

So vote…. Go on-line, and surf to www.landofodds.com. Click on Ugly Necklace Contest, and show America its Ugliest Necklace (and thus best jewelry designer) for 2003.

And if you are in the Nashville, Tennessee area, please stop by Be Dazzled Beads, where the 10 semi-finalists’ Ugly Necklaces are on display through September 15, 2003.



LIST OF SEMI-FINALISTS:

1. Kathleen Lynam, from Franklin, Tennessee, “My Ugly Necklace by Saddam Hussein”<br>
2. Tammy Hicks, from Old Hickory, Tennessee, “Flowers From Hell”<br>
3. Vera Fox-Bond, from LaVergne, Tennessee, “Don’t Cry Over Spilled Beads”<br>
4. Melissa L. Kahl, from Divernon, Illinois, “Beauty”<br>
5. Valerie Lehman, from Pawnee, Illinois, “This necklace is so tacky…”

6. Meagan Miller, from Taylorville, Illinois, “Everything You Need”<br>
7. Anita M. Tidwell, from Scotts Hill, Tennessee, “The ugliest necklace I’ve ever seen…”

8. Natalie Zurawski, from Springfield, Illinois, ”One of A Kind”<br>
9. Nancy Rundhammer, from Apex, North Carolina, “Beach Combers Nightmare”<br>
10. Robert De Luccia, from Ridgewood, New Jersey, “Ugly Truth”<br>


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