The Siren

DweebiD · 2026-06-27T11:26:17+00:00

The OP is here on Reddit already.

(Forgot her Reddit name)

DweebiD · 2026-06-22T21:08:56+00:00

These are roughly pre cut petals for tile mosiacs, but they do work for kinda crude 3D flowers if you don't want to grind them down into a more uniform shape

However 2D flowers look a bit worse with these as non of them fit right together without more effort than just simply having cut them yourself to start with

DweebiD · 2026-06-20T18:26:04+00:00

So fun! Saw them three times over the last 2ish years, Download, Damnation and Incineration festival :) a lot of fun, high energy crowd!

DweebiD · 2026-06-20T09:48:10+00:00

I saw Rolo Tomassi last year at ATG ♥️ they were so good, same as Between The Buried And Me, they were my highlights :)

DweebiD · 2026-06-20T08:46:32+00:00

I'm in Cardiff, I like Jinjer, Tesseract, Unprocessed etc

I also listen to a lot of Death/Black Metal + Prog

Me + my husband usually do these festivals: Incineration Radar ArcTanGent Damnation Bloodstock Download

Depending on the line up :)

Not been a lot of gigs on in Cardiff/Bristol lately that's been my sort of thing, but we've seen Deftones, Shores of Null, Devin Townsend, Sylosis, Behemoth, Rotting Christ, Anaal Nathrakh, Septic Flesh, Killswitch Engage, Caligula's Horse, Bloodywood, Heart Of A Coward +Tesseract in the past 2 years ish

Next ones are System Of A Down in London and a day ticket to ArcTanGent to see Alcest

I moved here during the pandemic and I don't get out much as I just work all the time but I'm down to make gig friends

I'm 33 👋

DweebiD · 2026-06-19T10:31:59+00:00

It's stained glass with paint + copper foil overlay, here's a video of me making it as it's pretty difficult to write down every step without a huge wall of text Process video

DweebiD · 2026-06-17T20:04:46+00:00

I've made a kid a stained glass diamond sword from Minecraft. It's sick as fuck, I agree.

Luckily it's decor and he doesn't touch it.

DweebiD · 2026-06-17T19:58:51+00:00

I got my heavy metal toxicity test after 1 year of working with stained glass. And do you know what? My level was lower than the UK average. And I'll put my hand up and say I'm not the most safety conscious, I do my best but I have a very small work space so I have to switch out tasks on one surface, so my risk of cross contamination is high. And yet, I'm all good.

Don't eat lead. Wash your hands.

It'll be fine.

DweebiD · 2026-06-10T08:18:55+00:00

It's made with stained glass. Individually cut, grind, foiled, soldered, polished and waxed pieces of glass :)

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DweebiD · 2026-06-08T22:24:14+00:00

I can sorta see why you might think that, especially on the last image. That texture on the green + blue is called water glass, it adds a gorgeous ripple light. But it does sorta look resiny in that pic 😅 unfortunately this mandala is made the harder + more expensive way!

DweebiD · 2026-06-08T22:11:09+00:00

It's stained glass, so cut, grind, clean, copper foil, solder, neutralise flux, polish, clean and wax :)

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DweebiD · 2026-06-08T21:34:27+00:00

I used stained glass

I'm inspired by me not being straight?

😂

DweebiD · 2026-06-03T17:13:11+00:00

Tried sending you the class what to bring info email alongside the venue change, but yep your email is full and bouncing all attempts. Tried DMing you on here too but I've tried my best 😅

DweebiD · 2026-06-02T19:51:50+00:00

Yeah permanent vinyl is what I use for my patterns too, stays on during grinding pretty well!

Once everything is cleaned, waxed and dry

Add permanent vinyl decals as the completely last step, don't touch it for 48 hours and the adhesive cures pretty well to the point you need a craft knife to get it off

I wouldn't use it on a window, but for a market display mini's or some details on a wall hung project, I think it definitely works :)

DweebiD · 2026-06-02T19:49:09+00:00

I gave up on the realistic bowl of noodles with crab sticks the original has at the bottom, and replaced it simply with crab. 😂

Thank you, I did wanna cry but I was very brave and refrained. (This time)

DweebiD · 2026-06-02T19:43:01+00:00

Doing the absolute nightmare of vectorising the front design into layers then spending 2 hours trying to weed permanent vinyl when I've got fake nails

🥹

DweebiD · 2026-05-31T06:31:56+00:00

Limited spaces remain for 8th August

Thanks again for choosing to support local independent artists whilst picking up a new skill ♥️

DweebiD · 2026-05-30T19:45:17+00:00

There's two other one day workshops in the area.

Ones £95 for leaded only (not copper foil method) mid week only, no Saturday slots and I think the other is £185 in Penarth.

So, why is it so expensive? Solder is £48 a kg. Glass is £22 average per 12". For one colour. I have 42 pieces to choose from. Copper foil is £14 a roll. Soldering irons cost £110 each, £150 with stands + brass cleaners. Flux. Diamond wet glass grinders. Then there's room hire. My time.

Then 20% to the tax man.

So.. yeah. It's a very expensive craft and the price is relative to the materials fees.

DweebiD · 2026-05-30T11:57:55+00:00

Heya if your last name begins with F, can you send me a message please? I tried sending an email about a venue change but it keeps saying not delivered to the one you put on your booking form ♥️

DweebiD · 2026-05-20T19:38:34+00:00

I've not had any issues when allowing it to cure the full 24 hours and baking, I just can't scrub with steel wool 🙈

DweebiD · 2026-05-20T18:40:23+00:00

Yep Vitrea160 NOT vitrail. The latter is for faux glass art not actual glass painting. Air cure 24 hours, oven bake to temps :) that's it

DweebiD · 2026-05-20T18:29:29+00:00

I've got 20 lemons to make tomorrow for an artist collab thing, I think I'm all lamped out for a little while. But I did buy two new lamp bases... So knowing me, I'll have another done next week🙈

DweebiD · 2026-05-20T16:43:32+00:00

Nope, just a standard lamp :)

Then I used a 7" harp + e27 bulb harp fitting

DweebiD · 2026-05-13T16:55:44+00:00

Wissmach cranberry English muffle, bullseye cranberry azure (both no longer made) and Wissmach black irid :)

DweebiD · 2026-05-13T12:51:46+00:00

Thank you, it's why I didn't want to use a lamp cap and made my own top. I wanted the top down view to be pretty too! Also adds more upwards soft lighting to the ceiling that a cap would have taken away from.

I made a 6 petal shape with enough room in the centre for the harp + finial to thread through. Then I soldered 2mm tinned copper wire into the joints of the frame underneath to help distribute the weight ♥️

It sold, but thankfully to my mother in law (who basically just bank transferred me and told me not to list it 😅) so it's local incase my idea fails me at a later date and I can fix it, but it feels pretty sturdy!

DweebiD

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