The Shattered Lance

Rose under glass

A few days ago we had some fresh roses in the house and they gave me some “beauty and the beast” style inspiration for an accent lamp. I had a glass vase and some mirrors left over from a lava lamp project, so I decided why not invert the vase and put the rose in it. I found a nice chunk of quartz to hold up the rose at the base. The best part is that it glows under the light. With only about 20 minutes of fiddling, I had this awesome lamp! (Click the pics to make them larger and see more detail)

Tags: beauty and the beast, glass, rose, rose lamp, roses, vase

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Categories Home Decor
Author godlesspaladin

Chopsticks

29 Nov

In an evening of sheer boredom, I decided to make some chopsticks:

Tags: ace, block, chop, chopsticks, sticks

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Wine bottle collage

28 Nov

My father is a huge wine drinker and I’ve been collecting the bottles for various projects. I thought it would be a cool idea to make a wine bottle collage out of the various wine labels. I had to carefully peel of the labels with a razor blade, and then place them under the cut out of a wine bottle to create the collage.

I went out and got a frame for it. I’m thinking it might be cool if I get two smaller fames and make a wine glass image, a flowing wine image, and arrange them like this so it looks like the bottle is pouring the wine into a glass:

Tags: collage, wine, wine bottles, wine label

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Flying Spaghetti Monster stained glass

23 Nov

So the other day I was messing around with faux stained glass paint and I suddenly felt this divine presence in the room. I’m sure it was the FSM, come to touch me with his noodly appendage. I felt divinely inspired to make this stained glass likeness of his tasty image. I’m considering making stained glass night-lights for sale. Anyone interested? (Or I could just make more of these to whatever size I can find the materials for)

Tags: art, flying spaghetti monster, fsm, noodly appendage, stained glass

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Chariots of Iron stained glass

20 Nov

The other day I found some materials to make stained glass like crafts and hit upon the idea of making a light box for one of my favorite podcasts The Chariots of Iron. I took their logo, enlarged it, cleaned it up, altered it to look like stained glass, and then spent all night long until the sun came up working on it.

Tags: chariots, chariots of iron, COI, iron, podcast, podcasts

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Categories Home Decor, Misc.
Author godlesspaladin

In case of revolution, break glass

20 Nov

A while back I saw this picture and really loved it; I thought “Why not make my own?” So I did, and I even put in a light to illuminate it at night.

Tags: 4chan, anonymous, break glass, guy fawkes, in case of revolution, in case of revolution break glass, mask, V, v for vendetta

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Author godlesspaladin

Exploding wine bottle

20 Nov

So I’ve been trying to cut a wine bottle in half down the length of the bottle and I’ve had several mishaps. One of the bottles shattered in multiple angles that I didn’t anticipate. Instead of throwing out the bottle, I rigged up a hanger wire, some fake grapes, and some copper leaves. The idea was to make it look like the bottle was exploding. I’m not sure if I like it, but it’s a prototype.