The
Ugly Necklace Contest Some of the First Annual 2003
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for: Summary of Adjusted Judges Scoring Criteria ABOUT THE JEWELRY DESIGN CRITERIA USED TO EVALUATE THE ENTRIES IN THE UGLY NECKLACE CONTEST - It Ain't Easy Doing Ugly, or as my momma says, "Ugly is as Ugly does."
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Kathleen Lynam, Franklin, Tennessee
Winner
Details
My Ugly Necklace
by Saddam Hussein
I thought I'd submit
This necklace to you
I've hidden all the weapons
There's nothing to do.
But I think it's pretty
Not ugly at all --
Won't it look great with
Some pumps and a shawl?
But never mind that
Let's focus on this,
Ah beading with bullets
The ultimate bliss!
Clasp Assembly: Button Toggle Clasp
Dollar
Value: not given
Adjusted Judges Score: 6 out of 7
Go Vote and Evalute This Necklace!
Natalie Zurawski from Springfield, Illinois
Runner-Up
DetailsOne of A Kind
I
don't dress down
When going out on the town,
And I don't like to see
Others adorned like me.
The
necklace that I wear
Really makes everyone stare.
Oh those crowds I can stun
With my high fashion!
Clasp Assembly: Two band-aids wrapped around wire to hold the two ends together
Dollar
Value: $27.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 6 out of 7
Valerie Lehman
from Illinois
Semi-Finalist
Details
This
necklace is so tacky
Some might say it's wacky
Many colors, shapes, and beads
It is an odd site to see
One might wear it to the circus
Or a rave, or a fair
But mostly I've been told it looks like something to wear to Woodstock
Maybe it's the smiley faces or the buttons
That reminds them they like to rock
All I know is it sure stands out brightly above the rest
In its own wacky-tacky way it's being put to the test
Clasp Assembly: Two mini bright
orange interlocked clips,
like clothes pins.
Dollar
Value: $100.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 5 out of 7
Melissa
L. Kahl from Illinois
Semi-Finalist
Details
Beauty
Eye made this necklace for my Mom,
Eye thought it was "Da Bomb,"
My Mom said "Wow, did you make a cow?"
Eye said "No, it's a necklace."
"Why, do you have a preference?"
She said "No, Eye understand the reference of the necklace."
It is from the wise saying: "Beauty is in the Eye of the beholder."
Clasp Assembly: Heavy gauge wire fashioned into hook/eye clasp
Dollar Value: $200.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 6 out of 7
Vera Fox-Bond,
Smyrna, Tennessee
Semi-Finalist
Details
DON'T CRY OVER SPILLED BEADS
ISHKABIBBLE
DRIBBLE IS MY NAME
BEADED EGGS MY CLAIM TO FAME
I'M THE GREEN BREASTED MATTRESS THRASHER
NEVER KNOWN AS A COLOR CLASHER
NOW MY COMB IS WILTED
BECAUSE MY PALLET I TILTED
AND SPILLED MY BEADS
MY BEAK IS DRIZZLING
CAUSE I'VE BEEN SNIVELING
I SPILLED MY BEADS
There is a round button on the "breast pocket" that says I heart Ugly.
Clasp Assembly: Safety Pin and Ring as hook/eye clasp
Dollar Value: not given
Adjusted Judges Score: 6 out of 7
Meagan Miller
from Illinois
Semi-Finalist
Details
Everything You Need
Cold metal pieces,
Rotten banana peel,
Traveling upon the earth,
You can have a tasty meal.
You got everything you need,
On your trip around the world,
With Patty Mayo at your side,
Cause she's the nicest girl.
You got a key to every door,
Or so it just may seem,
While you're out around the world,
Reaching your big dream.
Clasp Assembly: No clasp or knot, just a continuous string. There is, however,
a connecting architectural-type feature in the front with the L-shape pin
and the Patty Mayonaise keyring.
Dollar Value: $20.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 6 out of 7
Go Vote and Evalute This Necklace!
Anita M. Tidwell
from Tennessee
Semi-Finalist
Details
The ugliest necklace I've ever seen,
Was betwix and btween,
Sunset orange and olive green,
With rhino's grazing on the scene,
The blue and yellow fight to be seen,
With crystal and gold they crash and careen,
Around a neck, it's obscene!
Clasp Assembly: Strung on string, with a knot tied, instead of a clasp.
The knot is hidden under the beads.
Dollar Value: $10.00
"Because I don't ever want another one like it!"
Adjusted Judges Score: 5 out of 7
Nancy Rundhammer
from North Carolina
Semi-Finalist
Details
Beach Combers Nightmare
Lookin' for some beach and quiet,
She found it in Caroline.
She wandered down the beach at dawn,
And here is what she found.
Some driftwood lookin' pretty,
A bunch of mollusk shells.
A plastic shark, a bit gritty,
A bit of silver, what the hell?
She was a beader by instinct,
So she knew just what to do
She sat down by the ocean,
With her tools, she started to coo.
Clasp Assembly: A Bead-Button clasp on jute string
Dollar Value: $12.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 5 out of 7
Galina Barskaya, San Jose, California
ODE TO A MISUNDERSTOOD CREATURE
I loved a lot my ugly cat
Its eyes a frightful green
It's sight caused shivers down my spine
Like feline kerosene
I always missed my favorite cat
For it always ran away
While it was gone I would be forced
To be alone all day
So I made a necklace of my cat
To remember when it was gone
The time without it was not as bad
And didn't seem as long
But when that day came back my cat
Saw the horror I had wrought
It ran awya, quite scared it was
"This time for good," I thought.
Clasp Assembly: (unknown - no image provided)
Dollar Value: $50.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 2 out of 7
Lois Baughman, Montpelier, Ohio
Ugly Necklace Poem
This bauble is shiny, rough, dull, and smooth
with a funky rhythm that's in the groove.
This necklace is wacky and not too neat
whether worn to a rally or a disco beat.
And just like the fashions way back then
IT'S UGLY!
Clasp Assembly: Barrel Clasp
Dollar Value: $5.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Gail Boo, Walden, New York
Atlantian Merhags
In mass, the women walked into the sea. Speaking as one they recited the following, "We, the wise and old will forever swim to point the people of Atlantis back to land." ... All the women felt a tingling in their legs as they watched scales began to develop, their legs fused together and their feet turned into fins.
Clasp Assembly: No clasp
Dollar Value: $75.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Bethany L. Black, Jackson, New Jersey
Standing by the edge of the sea
Arms reaching up towards the sky
Am I here or there
Where?
Searching for solace
Desiring some peace
But screaming
Awaiting transformation
I wonder
When it will be time
To become Me.
Clasp Assembly: Hook & Eye Clasp
Dollar Value: $20.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Creed Bruce, Kathy MacNeill & Heidi Rank, Atascadero, California
Green Beads and String
My Boss returned from Italy
Green beads and string she brought
She strutted around with faux finery
Surrounding her neck like green moss and froth.
She asked my opinion of it's value and cost
I dare not answer, I was at a loss
I could not say what I really thought.
Clasp Assembly: Wire fashioned into hook/eye clasp
Dollar Value: not given
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Linda Allison, Davis, California
Her name is Faux Charade
Her teeth protrude
Her thoughts are rude,
She's a crone who crafts
In "fowlest" of mood!
This artist knows
Sticks and stones
May break bones
But ugly Charade is
Clay made for grins and groans!
Clasp Assembly: (unknown, no image of clasp area)
Dollar Value: $50.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Tara T. Czujak, Easton, Pennsylvania
The Ugly Necklace
Around my neck a lace must go
To hide this line so fragile
This line is all I have to see
It is my soul define.
...Around my neck a lace has gone
Now hiding what I fear most
To never know just who I am
And contribute to the silence.
...The necklace so ugly was not my scar
But instead my lack of faith.
Clasp Assembly: A hook/eye clasp fashioned from heavy gauge wire and leather
Dollar Value: not given
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Tammy
Hicks, Nashville, Tennessee
Semi-Finalist
Details
Flowers
From Hell
I made an ugly necklace, I know this much is true
I don't think you can argue that it's might gaudy too.
I chose orange to start with, orange isn't in this year
but as I sit and ponder orange never was held dear
Plastic button flowers added a great touch
and here I was so sure they would simply be too much.
Clasp Assembly: Button Toggle Clasp
Dollar Value: not given
Adjusted Judges Score: 5 out of 7
Laurie D'Ambrosio, Lake Mary, Florida
Crazy Aunt Laurie
Crazy Aunt Laurie had some beads
E-I-E-I-O
And with these beads she made a necklace
Look how far she'd go
With a green bead here and a black bead there.
Here a bead, there a bead,
Everywhere were beads and beads
Crazy Aunt Laurie made a necklace
E-I-E-I-Euuuuuuuu!
Clasp Assembly: Barrel Clasp
Dollar Value: $2.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Robert De Luccia, Ridgewood, New Jersey
Semi-Finalist
Details
Ugly Truth
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty"...
Keats concluded rather smugly.
I can't really buy his creed.
Romantic fantasy won't fill my need.
'Cause in the real world I've noticed there's
Less that's Beauty and more that's ugly.
My fabrication is dark indeed
With buck tail hair on tea dyed skulls,
A bullet casing made of brass,
Some garish stones and faceted beads,
Bits of feathers and baubles of glass.
And, topping it off, this "joy forever"
Highlights a polished jaw, orthondontia and all,
Scrimshawed like a Gravettian wall.
I think, John Keats, YOU would swoon
If confronted with this ugly creation
Knowing your penchant for dainties and mead.
That's your problem: Another thorn of life
On which to fall and bleed.
But Josef Conrad, with a heart of darkness,
Might smile to see a manifestation
Of his "fascination with abomination."
On the jaw bone is written "Anyone can afford to be beautiful."
Clasp Assembly: Hook & Eye Clasp
Dollar value: $300.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 6 out of 7
Michelle Wolf, Cottage Grove, Minnesota
To Quote My Husband
"Roses are Red
Violets are Blue.
This necklace is ugly
And I....can't rhyme
good.... either".
Clasp Assembly: No clasp
Dollar value: not given
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Karen Wood, Big Bear Lake, California
(Apprx 284 foil-lined teabag wrappers.)
It doesn't have beads...
But it succeeds...
At showing those who helped me when I was in need...
I really appreciate their special deeds.
Clasp Assembly: Safety Pin
Dollar value: $20.00
Adjusted Judges Score: 2 out of 7
