Behind the Scenes

Custom flat file drawer in Victoria Lansford's studio
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The Harsh Light of Reality + Surprise Relief

This week, the big, final, studio puzzle piece arrived: a custom built flat file drawer cabinet that looks like an antique map drawer cabinet in pristine condition. I’d had slight heart failure last fall when my husband cc’d me on an email he’d sent about getting it custom built. As a highly productive, tools and…

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Snoopy Happy Dance – Feel the Frill Exhibit & Sale

It’s that time of year when we observe the sacred tradition of watching the A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Truthfully, I hide out on Thanksgiving. At the risk of sounding like a real downer, I confess it’s not my favorite holiday. As a kid, it was like a dress rehearsal for Christmas so my maternal and…

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…