Design Your Own Glass Cup in Seoul, Korea (ofyou seongsu review + walkthrough)
📍Seoul Forest Station Exit 2 (오브유 성수 Naver Maps)
🗓 Reservations via Kakao Talk
⏳ 2 hr class + 4-5 weeks to receive final product
💰₩38,000 - ₩54,000 per person (+ ₩4,000 for local delivery)
📹 IG/Kakao Talk ofyou.seongsu
🚽 Yes (inside the building)
Reservation + Product Information
When making a reservation via IG DM or Kakao they will ask you which cup you are going to make ahead of time. In order to finalize your reservation you will need to pay the total cost of the items ahead of time via a bank transfer (계자 이체).
Class times run in slots of 2 hours from 11:00 - 13:00, 14:30 - 16:30, and 17:30 - 19:30
Class Breakdown
The first half of the class involves selecting and laying out the colors and designs to place on your mug. You draw on the back of the colored paper to cut out your desired shapes or pick from the provided letters and designs. Layering is possible (e.g. adding a design on top of a color swatch).
NOTE: the pink film is actually transparent so after the glazing process they do only the black outline designs will remain.
As you can see above I cut out various hearts/shapes/blobs and planned to layer them underneath various existing black outline designs.
The second half of the class is submerging your decals in water to gently separate them from a backing film, and then placing them onto the mug. (The instructor said to only submerge one decal at a time LOL rip)
Once you are satisfied with the placement you will have to gently dab off the excess water and squeeguee your design. It's fairly easy to replace if you mess up, but if yout take too long the decals WILL rip so be careful T__T
NOTE: You do not get to take your mug home with you day of. It will be available to pick up or ship within 4-5 weeks, and shipping to an address within Korea is an additional 4,000 won.
I will add updated photos once I receive mine in the mail next month! Overall this was a fun experience to do with friends, but if you're looking to completely design something that's entirely you're own, there is little room for creativity design-wise (think of it like doing adobe illustrator on a mug as opposed to being able to draw like photoshop). However if you're okay with just colorful shapes, blobs, texts, and some really cute predesigned characters this is the perfect memory piece for you. Just be sure to somewhat know what you want to design before you go in otherwise like us you'll be pressed for time. The only con for me was the time it takes to actually get your item.
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My summer hols makes (may be inspo?):
🧶Granny square mittens [tutorial] I’ve added small charms, may be they’re cute? idk
🍵🐱 If you happen to read this in Melbourne, Australia (who knows?) there is a super cool place in Elsternwick called Glaze it where you rock up and paint any bisque-fired item they already have on hand (and it’s lots that they have!) They glaze it for you and do the final firing. Too much fun! My mug was ready in two days for a pick up, and it’s a rocket blast in ceramic terms.
🪴Hanging macrame pocket and a long thingie to house my mother air plant and her babes [tutorial for the pocket]
🕯️Candle with beeswax leftovers and a thrifted tea cup. Slurpy-slurp!
🪡 I had a million of short-ish yarn pieces from various projects I’ve accumulated in a few years. I’ve tied them all together, made a massive ball and crocheted a small pillow for my bottom. The back is also made with leftover fabric pieces, and i’ve filled it with my wool felt snippets. Gee, I’m very thrifty.
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