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LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 2.15 79 Maggie Huber makes jewelry in her Germantown shotgun's back room, which she has furnished with a small couch and a rocking chair. She used old road maps to wallpaper the space. California, Florida. Places she has shipped her jewelry. "It's cool to send this Louisville thing out," she says. "It feels big to me." She started her business, Live Long June, last March to pass time while her boyfriend was on tour with the band Water Liars. By making a list of every tool mentioned in tutorial videos, Huber, who also founded the now-defunct black-and-white photo magazine This…is Louisville, learned to make rings out of The name Live Long June is a reference to a line from the Emily Dickinson poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" Huber had to recite it in high school. "I always thought it was a cool sequence of words and wanted to use it for something," Huber says. "This felt right." "I recently inherited some family hammers that belonged to my great-grandfather," Hack says. "I'm excited to use them for hammering metal, to see what kind of textures and patterns they make." For the record, Lindsay Hack would like to say that the tiny red birds in her logo predate the famous Portlandia ''Put a bird on it!" skit. "I wanted something recognizable," the New Albany resident says. When she was 9 or 10, Hack made and sold jewelry to guests at a Derby party for 25 cents apiece. "When I was growing up, we always had art supplies around," she says. Hack, a designer for the Courier-Journal, became interested in jewelry- making after a co-worker mentioned a silversmith class at the Metro Arts Center on Dixie Highway. She took the class six times and set up a small workshop in her parents' basement. Hack has always liked designs from the 1950s, especially dainty earrings. She has also branched into the fashier '60s and '70s, incorporating a few peace signs, as well as turquoise and coral, into her jewelry. "I have a thing for wearing one huge pair of earrings as a statement against a simple black or solid-colored outft," she says. Hack uses antique brass, vintage beads and repurposed objects such as old trolley coins that were good for "one fare from New Albany to Louisville." She's perhaps best known for her delicate brass necklaces ($15) with Kentucky and Indiana state charms; she's sold more than 2,000 and constantly reflls orders for local shops, including Scout and Block Party Handmade Boutique. "The state necklaces were a test at frst," she says. "I thought, 'There's so much state pride for Kentucky, people might like these.'" Maggie Huber (Live Long June) stamped coins and sterling silver. She uses agate and swirled rocks, turns metal into feathers and arrows. She'll make six pieces a day during busier months. One of her favorite materials is called Fordite, aka Detroit agate, which comes from old car-factory paint rooms, where cars were sprayed and baked, leaving layer upon layer of hardened paint behind. A piece of chipped Fordite reveals colorful swirls. Sometimes Huber sees her creations ($15 to $65 on Etsy or at the Flea Off Market) on women in town. "If I tried to do this in a bigger city, I think I would fall through the cracks," she says. Lindsay Hack (Lindsay Lou)