Sunday I hiked at Silver Creek Falls State Park with my friends Cat and Jamie and their two corgis. Because we had the corgis with us we eschewed the normal waterfall loop (no dogs allowed) and started up the first dog friendly trail we saw where there was a parking […]
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Hiking to Alsea Falls and Green Peak Falls
A while ago I was sick, miserable, and feeling sorry for myself. Instead of posting about how miserable I was on facebook, I decided to think about happy things and posted a list of activities I would love to do this year. On that list, among other things, were hiking, backpacking, and […]
Jewelry Lessons, Filagree Project #1, Part 1
I selected this as the inspiration for my first filagree project: These are a set of Greek earrings circa 3rd – 2nd century BC. Here are my in-progress pics, I’ll be adding notes later.
Craft Update, part deaux: Orycon
In addition to the kickstarter, new goats, and fuzzy cats that want me to be a lap all of the time, I’ve been making all sorts of stuff, and was a guest panelist at Orycon. Orycon was great this year! I really enjoyed being part of the art show, on […]
Make ALL the Things: Art & Craft Update
Time for a long overdue arts and crafts update and pics of stuff I’ve been working on. And pictures of my cats! And goats! Winter has begun, I’ve had to deal with the first snow, way early this year, and everyone is hunkering down and keeping warm. This includes […]
The Last Few Hours of Kickstarter!
I’m down to the last couple of hours of my kickstarter and I’m amazed and SO thankful for my fans and patrons right now! I just broke $7500, and have hopes for a few more last minute backers. I spent today blowing glass in the freezing weather out at Edgefield […]
Orycon 36 Panel Schedule
I’m a guest artist again at Orycon this year, and I am going to be on a ton of panels! I’m putting my schedule below so you can find me or my panels while you are at con: Orycon 36Itinerary for Hall, Vandy Fri Nov 7 12:00:pm Fri Nov […]
Halloween Needle Felted Eyeball Cat Toy Tutorial
Here they are, all of my needle felted catnip-filled eyeball secrets for you to try out! Here is what you will need to make your own catnip-filled, needle felted cat toy: A felting needle (star needles are my favorite, but you can use any size/gauge felting needle for this) […]
My Kickstarter is ON!
It’s official, my Kickstarter is now happening! This is a kickstarter to fund a new 90lb electric glass melting furnace for my glass blowing studio. You can find it right here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vandyhall/update-the-vandy-hall-glass-studio
Viking Shoes and Problem Solving
Just a quick note on some problem solving I did regarding our leather viking shoes for runestone. All of our viking actors will be in leather viking style shoes. Unfortunately, the leather soles are rather slick. This is one place where not killing our actors had to out-weigh staying a […]