Me: I’ve fired my boss. My son Skyler: “Uh…but don’t you work for yourself?” Me: “Yes, as I have done all your life and for many years before that.” Skyler: “So you’re firing yourself?” Me: “Yes.” Skyler: “So you’re quitting working?” Me: “Hell no. You like going to college don’t you? And living indoors? With…
The Christmas I was five years old, family friend Roddy Noll gave me the coolest, weirdest board game that quite literally changed my life and set me on my path. Without this gift and the kindness I was shown as a young child, I wouldn’t be a metalsmith, and I wouldn’t have the privilege of…
Like the line, “The galaxy is on Orion’s Belt” from the movie Men in Black, it is, in fact, possible to wear the universe on your wrist. “Like wearing the universe on your wrist” is how Jane Milosch, founder and Director of the Provenance Research Initiative and juror for CraftForms 2019 described my Russian filigree…
15% off Everything at VictoriaLansford.com Enter the code SILVERANDGOLD in the cart to see the discount applied to your total. (It won’t show up otherwise!) Peacock Splendor II Sale Price $323 Still in love with hand engraving and in defiance of what I had drilled out of me in art school over three decades ago,…
Read to the end for some very good news! With half my readers being in the US, I feel the need, or perhaps the pressure, to say Happy Thanksgiving. While there are many things I am deeply grateful for, such as all of you very dear followers of my work(!), I have to admit this…
On a trip to New Orleans back in 2017, my husband Chris and I stumbled upon this outdoor bar, in a lovely little courtyard, nestled between two buildings in the French Quarter. The live jazz band, playing swinging arrangements of old standards had drawn us in. In the midst of too much work as usual,…
I have an all out obsession with peacock feathers. Their rich hues and exotic feel first captured my attention in the mall store World Bazar when I was a child in the 70’s. For decades I never did anything about this obsession mostly because “serious art students” should never take inspiration in anything so cliche….
