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	<title>Nancy Lee Designs: Handmade Metal Jewelry, Objects, and Instruction &#187; Studio News and Notes</title>
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		<title>Happy 2012 to Friends, Neighbors and Metalsmiths Everywhere!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s January 9, and this is my first post for 2012. Huzzah! It’s been a whirlwind fall and wonderful early winter, and I cannot thank my friends, family, clients and fellow metalsmiths enough. This summer was a difficult one for many reasons, but the past few months have more than made up for it. My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Circle &#8211; A Celebration of Rings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dear friend and gallery owner Ginger Meek Allen sent me an email today with info about an exciting new show opening in her North Carolina gallery on Friday. I&#8217;m thrilled both for her and for me! It&#8217;s great to be a part of the show and wanted to share with you her clever interactive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hammered Copper Cuff Cavalcade</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A windfall landed on my studio doorstep a couple of  weeks ago &#8211; copper-  thanks to my friend and new showroom-mate, Skip of Back Alley Studios. Lucky me! This windfall came in the form of waste cut from copper roof flashing &#8211; big, long, uneven strips. The moment I saw it, it called to me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Goodies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jewelry Notes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often, I&#8217;ve just gotta post photos of work that I&#8217;m proud of and hope you will like. What better time than with Valentine&#8217;s Day just around the corner? Perhaps you are in need of a gift for someone special or maybe you need a pick-me-up for surviving the winter snocopalypse! The work shown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handmade Jewely in time for Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve been spending a LOT of time at the bench lately. And the chiropractor (the wonderful Bob Dixon!). Plus Mercury is in retrograde. And the Winter Solstice is just days away! I think there is a full moon in there somewhere. And I&#8217;ve been having a @#$*load of weird dreams as icing on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Basile Studio Shop Open House at the Indianapolis Art Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was my honor a few short weeks ago to get a call from Kate Oberreich, fine artist, friend, and newly promoted manager of the Basile Studio Shop in the Indianapolis Art Center at 820 East 67th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46220.  She asked if I’d be interested in offering some work for sale there. Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bountiful Updates!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please take a look at the new things here on the website! The Events tab has been updated with not only the next event, but the two new artists who I&#8217;ll be sharing space with. Testing a new &#8220;Store&#8221; tab, with a shopping cart. All of the classes have been loaded into the system, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Successful Indy Artist Awarded Indiana Arts Commission Grant</title>
		<link>http://www.ndesignsmetal.com/2010/08/27/successful-indy-artist-awarded-indiana-arts-commission-grant/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=successful-indy-artist-awarded-indiana-arts-commission-grant</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to NPR at the workbench the other day, I caught portions of a discussion regarding natural athletic talent versus talent gained by hard work, and the success rate of each. The premise is that anyone with the desire to work hard for a very long time can achieve great success at anything they put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy Lee Gets Intentional</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may happen to know that I applied for an Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant this year. My goal is to further develop the &#8220;Pod&#8221; small sculpture concept. I had enrolled in a class at the Touchstone Center in Pennsylvania that was to take place the first week in August. I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The Club” and Nancy Lee’s Rules of 5-0</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Pilar Lopez, owner of  The Pastry Station, came to my studio on Friday and bought herself a pair of earrings (pictured below). She asked me what I was doing over the weekend. &#8220;It&#8217;s my birthday, and I&#8217;m gonna be 50!&#8221; I said. She rested her hand on my arm and looked at me [...]]]></description>
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