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 emailing you. Every day, each…
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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 cuff bracelet Storms of Juno….
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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, I created these peacock feather…
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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 is my least favorite holiday….
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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, we had flown in earlier…
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