The
Ugly Necklace Contest Some of the Fourth Annual 2006
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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,
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Nealay Patel
from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
SLEEP WITH BUTTERFLIESAwaken from endless nights of sleep
I'm bound by ties that sink so deep
But I find I cannot leave
So in my dreams I try to fly
In name I am one who sleeps with butterfliesI sleep with butterflies
Connected to minds that turn this earth
I am just one in this game of creation and birth
Hearts are not meant to be broken
A mind is not meant to be waste
So I slumber deep wishing I could try
This is how it is to sleep with butterfliesI wish I could be a butterfly~
Clasp Assembly:
Handcrafted wire and bead-woven bar toggle
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Ellen Peckham
from New York, New York
CELEBRATION
(Poem for a Necklace and A Ring)Champagne consumed
Bottles removed
All that lasts
(Wire and glass
Corks and leads
The old lady's head)Requires recycling
Not to lose
Celebration's mood
Gather the caps
Silver entrapped
Chains attached
Occasion enhanced.Ah, memories!
Clasp Assembly:
Hook & Eye Clasp
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Jason Reid
from Madison, Wisconsin
UGLY LOVE
This is my handmade necklace entitlted Ugly Love.
It's what Cupid threw up on, from the sky above.
Though it isn't very pretty, and lacks a certain glow,
Throw ugly love around your neck and on the town we'll go!
Clasp Assembly:
Heart/Bar toggle clasp, handmade
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Karen Shumate
from Douglasville, Georgia
Why Do Tadpoles and Sperm Resemble?
I haven't got cable or satellite
Too far in the woods for it to some in right.
Just local network and two channels of public TV
On each, frog and human reproduction do I see.
Why do tadpoles and sperm resemble?
Thus was born the ugly necklace assemble.
Let me start and end with the cable wire,
And to the truthful answer I'll aspire.
Sperm for mothers to be
Of which Barbie is the epitome.
Tadpoles from eggs to frogs full grown
It's genetic makeup has already been sown.
... It's a parable of the princess and the frog
What comes from man now, once grew into that lump on a log.
Clasp Assembly:
TV Cable wire, male and female ends
Adjusted Judges Score: 2 out of 7
Linda Savelo
from Wake Forest, North Carolina
FEED THE WORLD
Man eats bugs, greens, junk, and doggies,
vegetables, eggs, seeds and nuts,
chicken, fruit, fish, pork and beef steaks,
and some weird things that tkaes guts.
Everything's part of the food chain
so 'animal' can survive,
including the worms that eat dirt
that they too, might stay alive.
Few folks are vegetarians,
yet, man eats bugs -- bugs eat us!
It's even known that man eats man...
except for head and carcass.
Yes this is an ugly process
since the onset of man's life.
...The moral of this here story
tells us there's another scoop.
We're all part of each other...
True -- but also some dirt and some -- you know.
Clasp Assembly:
fish/fish hook
Adjusted Judges Score: 2 out of 7
Crystal Thain
from Spokane, Washington
Clammy
the barnacles are gone
there's a hole in it too
if you dampen this necklace
it smells like a slew
such a rusty faux color
and quite ugly too
for the beads bite your eyes
and the bivalve would too
turn over the necklace
and look once again
it's mother of pearl
amid yellows and red
really quite garish
an uncomfortable sight
for either way that you wear it
it is quite a fright
Clasp Assembly:
lobster claw
Adjusted Judges Score: 1 out of 7
Jane Theodore
from Boulder, Colorado
My Bling
Look at my bling --
I can hear it ring!
I always need to be in touch
(some say it's my crutch)
I need a new phone
I'm tired of this one's tone
I could leave it to you in my will...
Better yet, I'll put it in the landfill!
Clasp Assembly:
Handmade hook/eye clasp
Adjusted Judges Score: 2 out of 7
Heath and Jessica Tiemans
from Bealeton, Virginia
FLOWERS WOULD'VE BEEN BETTER (BUT I GUESS THEY AREN'T AVANT GARDE)
An artist in love is a beautiful thing,
Except in the case of conceptual artists who deal abstractly with issues
like gender roles and masculinity or yang and ying,
And the abstract artist of whom I speak is no exception,
For he insists that his love of me is the cause of this necklace's
inception.
... He declared he'd create a piece with the pure conceptual touch
of my beauty upon it.
My sensuous curves, he insists, are quintessentially captured
In the layers of undulant felt that leave my jind more ruptured than
raptured.
Crystal stands in for my vivacity, liberally showered with a haphazard
hand,
In a manner I can't stand,
... Assuming his artistic ego is willing and ready,
We might even wind up going steady;
But while love must needs be blind (or else lovers are forced to
grin and bear it),
I still refuse to wear it.
Clasp Assembly:
Hook/Eye clasp with gemstone donut, and handmade hook of wire and beads
Adjusted Judges Score: 3 out of 7
