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American Spirit Magazine
May/June 2007

Title: Symbol of Progress

"Priceless information will be saved for future generations, thanks to the President General’s project, “Preserving Our Patriotic Heritage,” which aims to scan and digitize the National Society’s ancestral records, source documents and genealogical reports.

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The Winona Times
Newspaper, November 1, 2001

Title: Sanford ornament to hang on White House Christmas tree

Montgomery County artist Penny Sanford has less than a week to finish the sculpting of a special commissioned ornament for the White House Christmas tree.

"At Home for the Holidays" is the theme for the White House this year, and the central focus each year is the 18-foot tree that is covered with special works from artists around the country. Click to Continue Reading



The Winona Times
Newspaper, November 4, 1999

Title: Sanford Featured in New Magazine

A slick new magazine hitting the newsstands all over the country features a local artist, Penny Sanford, in their premier issue. Southern Lady magazine, a trendy lifestyle publication targeted to affluent women in the South, contains a five-page feature on Penny Sanford and her Nature's Angels(TM) porcelain ornaments. Click to Continue Reading



Southern Lady - Premiere Issue
Magazine - Holiday 1999
By Ann Dorer, Managing Editor

Gracing the Christmas tree in the Mississippi Governor's mansion are 500 white porcelain ornaments of angels merged into leaves or flowers with a sheen so soft they look like white chocolate. Called Nature's Angels, these limited-edition ornaments are the creations of Penny Sanford, who came up with the idea for her angels in an almost heavenly way. Click to Continue Reading



Mississippi Travel Guide
Magazine - Summer / Fall 1999

Porcelain artist Penny Sanford looked at the beauty of her native Mississippi and created art. From the restored barn-turned studio on the grounds of her family home, Hamer Hills Farm, Sanford and her artisans produce a number of different porcelain series. Each ornament is cast and finished by hand, and Sanford performs the final and most intricate sculpting refinements on each piece, making each ornament a very personal work of art. "Some days I feel like a plastic surgeon. I give a nose job here or a chin tuck there. Then put a curl here and a wisp there like a beautician." Click to Continue Reading



Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazine
Magazine - July 1999
by Anne Scarborough Philbin
National Chairman, Public Relations

Penny Sanford is a combination of the pragmatic and the poetic, one who can see in a lump of clay the beauty and the story that her sculptures tell so well. A junior member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Penny is a fast becoming recognized artist for the beautiful white porcelain of her "Nature's Angels" series and for her "Portraits in Porcelain" of historic places. Click to Continue Reading



Country Roads
Travel Magazine - March 1999

Penny Sanford, creator of Penny Sanford Porcelains has been commissioned by the Daughters of the American Revolution to create a special edition ornament depicting Natchez's Rosalie Mansion. Built in 1820, Rosalie is owned and operated today by the Mississippi State Society Daughters of the American Revolution. The antebellum mansion overlooks the Mississippi River and is the focus of a new project for Mississippi State Regent Dell Scoper, the Rosalie Initiative 2001 Challenge. The porcelain ornament that depicts Rosalie is ringed by a border of magnolia leaves, a massive oak and the ornamental fence fronting the National Historic Landmark. Released in February 1999, the sale of the ornament will help fund this State Regent's Project. The limited edition of this ornament is only available through the Rosalie Gift Shop in Natchez. To contact the Rosalie Gift Shop, call (601) 445-4555.



Country Roads
Travel Magazine - December 1998

Sculpting hands belong to Tammy Reid, one of eight artisans who ply their art in the Penny Sanford Porcelains studios of Hamer Hills Farm near Kilmichael, Mississippi. Under the gentle tutelage of porcelain sculptor Penny Sanford, artisans work Nature's Angels in translucent white porcelain. Then studio's sculptures have brought Sanford acclaim from collectors across the country, and are to be featured on a tree devoted to her creations at the Mississippi Governor's Mansion in Jackson throughout December.



Mississippi Travel Guide
Magazine - Summer / Fall 1998

One of Mississippi's undiscovered treasures can be found tucked among massive hardwood trees surrounded by acres of undisturbed wildlife habitat in rural Montgomery County. Hamer Hills Farm, encompassing 1,424 acres, is a Historic Centennial Farm, established in 1837 by James Cochran Hamer of Anson County, North Carolina. Today, direct descendants of that hardy pioneer live and work on the farm, producing cotton, corn, timber, wildlife, registered English Shepherds and surprisingly, porcelain series. Click to Continue Reading



Mississippi State Alumnus Magazine
Magazine - Summer 1998
by Denise M. Cosper

Inspired by the wildflowers and trees around her studio on the 1,424-acre family farm, Sanford's 10 limited edition Nature's Angels have become collector's items in Mississippi and around the Southeast. And there is such a demand for her pieces, including a new one commissioned for The Splendors of Versailles exhibit in Jackson, that she works all the time, sleeps about three hours each night, and lives on frozen pot pies." I had no idea how popular these ornaments would be." Sanford said. "When the idea for them first came to me, I was stunned. I was in my studio, working on majolica pieces, and it was almost like having a vision." Click to Continue Reading



Country Roads
Travel Magazine - April 1998

The flurry of activity that accompanies The Splendors of Versailles in Jackson is infectious. The excitement spreads at least as far as Kilmichael, where resident porcelain artist Penny Sanford anticipates the opening of the exhibit in a flurry of activity of her own. The Imperial treasure trove of France's Sun King has indeed shone bright upon Sanford-creator of the line of "Nature's Angels: porcelains. The museum exhibition has commissioned Penny Sanford Porcelains to design and produce a Nature's Angel ornament exclusively for the exhibition. Click to Continue Reading