Russian Filigree

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…

Summer from the 2020 ECOlogical Calendar
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Persistence of Time and Innuendo + More Upcoming Online Class Info

Like many people, I’m looking at time differently these days (and nights). Time moves so quickly that my family jokes the week feels like it’s almost over by Tuesday evening, for Friday and all that that we didn’t finish that week will be here in a few minutes. Back in 2003, I used to eagerly…

Victoria Lansford Open Studio 3-20-20
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Unprecedentedly Imperfect – The 1st Zoom Open Studio During COVID-19

Friday was Day 14 of my family’s self-isolation, and we continue to celebrate that we’re symptom free! We’re also refusing to go anywhere for a long time to be safe and do our part. As promised, here is the recording of last week’s world-wide open studio on Zoom. Also as promised, I didn’t clean up…

Storms of Juno, Russian filigree cuff bracelet by Victoria Lansford
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Wearing the Universe on Your Wrist

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…

Egyptian Lily, Encompass, and three Ariadne’s Thread; photo by Pat Vasquez-Cunningham
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The One and Only Big Sale Ends Monday Night, Dec 2, 2019

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,…

Soul Cloud; photo by Pat Vasquez-Cunningham
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“I Never Could Get the Hang of Thursdays”*

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…