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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Golden Girl makes custom jewelry

Alexis Lydecker crafts custom gold to wear and admire.

Alexis Rice Lydecker "was always the frustrated artist," she said. Like so many of us, she knew she had artistic talent but, especially when she was younger, she didn't have the confidence to believe that art could become a career for her. Still, for years, it remained a passion. Lydecker is a fourth-generation Marin County resident, who grew up on the lagoon in Belvedere. After attending Marin Country Day School and Dominican Upper School, which was then in San Rafael, she graduated from University of Denver with a degree in Elementary Education and a minor in Art.  Throughout her life she was always interested in design, texture, and color. She studied how these elements relate to the environment and absorbed what she observed around her…

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