Guess where I am? Ok, I gave it away with the title, but I’m fairly sure that most of you wouldn’t think of Wisconsin as a likely spot for Adventure Girl Vandy to visit. So why am I in Wisconsin? A very good reason actually; after Pennsic I drove back […]
Life and art
Pennsic War!
Hey everyone, I just got back from Pennsic War, the largest Society for Creative Anachronism event in the world. Pennsic consists of two weeks of camping, in what is usually a pretty hot and muggy environment, but also can be a very rainy at times. This was a good year. […]
Mammoth Ivory Ear Spoons and Sewing Needles
Well, I’m back from my latest trip – to Arizona. I’m down one boyfriend, but up one hobby. With the chaos of my breakup I’ve once again been bad about posting, but here are some images of what I’ve been spending my nervous energy on: A couple of years ago […]
New Art! And Cats…
Ok, here they are, what I know you all must have been waiting for, new original artwork!!! There will be both the originals and prints available at Orycon on the weekend of Nov 2-4, in Portland, Oregon. After that I’ll have prints up for sale in my etsy store, vandycraft. […]
Pumpkin Time!
It’s glass pumpkin time again! I keep meaning to update and not getting around to it… so here are a couple teaser pictures of glass pumpkins. And I promise more to come. 🙂
Wedding Goblets
This is just a quick post since I’m absolutely exhausted, but I finished the wedding goblets for my friends Sterling and Carey today AND gave them to the couple at the wedding today (yeah, cutting it a bit close, I know), and I wanted to post pictures. I’ll post […]
Art!
I keep putting off blogging and I keep saying I’m going to do it… so here I go! Eventually I plan on transferring my art blog to my website which will be getting a facelift soon: www.vandyhall.com. But for now, it can exist here, even though all of my past […]
Viking Mirrors
Earlier this year at Estrella (a medieval Earlier this year at Estrella (a medieval reenactment war that takes place in Arizona in February) I got an inquiry about making some medieval glass mirrors to be placed in 13-15th century style pocket mirror cases. Like many people, I’d never herd of […]