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San Diego County Fair 2006
This year’s fair had a great beach theme. I tried to bring it into all of my displays this year. I had a lot of fun dreaming up how to display in a way that would represent the ocean. Wayland came to the fair and painted a beautiful mural on one of the fair buildings, it is awesome.
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This is a turquoise necklace I call “Blue Heart”. It is made of silver, coral and Number 8 Mine Turquoise. I cut and polished the center pendant and set it is silver, I bought all of the beads that go with it. You can’t see it in the picture but the center of the pendant has a heart shape in the matrix.
I won the San Diego Lapidary Societies award for “Best Cabochon” for this piece.
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These are my three cabochons with matching rough.
- Andamooka Matrix Opal- Andamooka, Australia
- Regency Rose Plume Agate- Graveyard Point, Oregon
- Eudylite- Kola Peninsula, Russia
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These are my five mineral specimens that I entered:
- Smoky Quartz on Petrified Wood - Holbrook, Arizona
- RubelliteTourmaline - Pala, California
- Calcite- Wenshan, Yunnan Province,China
- Fluorite- Xianghua, Hunan Province, China
- Chrysocolla- Star of Congo Mine, Congo, D.R.
I won the Cecil Waterhouse award and the San Diego County Gem and Mineral Society Award for this collection.
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This won the El Cajon Valley Gem and Mineral Societies award for this entry.!
This is a necklace that I made from silver art clay. It is called “Black Widow” and is a black widow with a ruby c.z. in it’s belly. I dedicated this entry to one of my teachers and dear friends, Jon Rose. Jon was the first person who taught me jewelry and lapidary and I made this piece in a class he taught. Jon passed away this year and I miss him a lot. I put a cannon on the plaque because Jon loved to sail as a pirate and explosives expert under the alias “Juan de la Kaboom”. I wanted the display to look like a pirates chest spilling over with treasure. Yo ho ho, it got a blue ribbon.
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The Horn of Versailles
Last but not least of my entries is the entry that I am most proud of. It is the best work I have ever done. I spent about 200 hours making this horn entirely by hand. I started with a cow’s horn and cleaned it out and polished it. Then I worked with brass, silver, copper and turquoise to create my design. I won Best in Show and the Jon Rose Memorial Award for Creativity in Lapidary. I think this award means the most to me because of how much Jon has meant to me, I am going to keep working hard and I hope that I will do work that will have made Jon proud.
I also have to say a HUGE thanks to Kim Hutsell who spent so many hours in his workshop reaching me all of the skills that I needed to have to make this horn. I have to say I have had the best mentors anyone could hope for.
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This is a picture of me with my friends after the awards ceremony. There were 5 of us who won special awards for our gem and mineral entries.
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