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 […]
Life and art
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 […]
Runestone, Needlework, T’s
I realized last week that I’ve been crazy busy and haven’t updated my blog in far too long, so here is a quick peek into what I’ve been up to. While at RadCon I once again found myself wishing that I had the opportunity to do some more film props […]
RadCon 6b
Now that I’ve been home for a few days, decompressed, unpacked my car, and rolled my new dice a few times, I can talk about RadCon 6b. My artist peers are right, it is quite the experiance! This was my first RadCon and my impressions of this con were really […]
What an incredible couple of weeks!
I have had an absolutely amazing couple of weeks. Weeks that have once again made me realize how amazing my friends are. I went scuba diving for the first time because of my friend Craig. And then we stopped by a reconstructed grist mill, where I got a bag of […]
Wisconsin: Arts, Crafts, Shooting, & Beer!
My time in Wisconsin has continued to be entertaining, and also fairly uneventful, a relief after some of the “interesting” times I’ve been through lately. I’ve been taking this week as a good chance to re-group after Pennsic, rest, work on some projects, and I’ve also been doing some “real […]