Crafting an Artful Life: Imaginative Musings on Creativity

B Is for Bou, illuminated initial by Victoria Lansford
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“And Now for Something Completely Different”…Sort Of

What started out as scary but possibly short has turned into what I half jokingly call living in captivity. Seven months later, I now call it living under house arrest. It got me thinking about Galileo… The funny thing is that if I woke up tomorrow in a pandemic free world, by some unlikely miracle,…

Orion Micro TIG welding sculptural Filigree in Victoria Lansford's online class
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From Mummies to Filigree – VoyageATL + Upcoming Online Class

My story was recently featured on VoyageATL. Please check it out along with many other stories about my fellow fabulous Atlantans of note. It’s wonderful when living and working “outside the box” has a location where we can all safely gather. About those mummies and their metal…It’s funny how often I’m asked how I became…

3-D filigree online class, showing how to make sculptural filigree (filigrana)
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Time Travel in a Fiery World

Even in the midst of “screen fatigue” I continue to be amazed at our increasing ability to be in so many places at once. I can’t add, “and all from the comfort of home,” with so many people displaced or under threat of evacuation right now. Just when many of us got used to spending…