3-hour geeky engrave?! I can’t WAIT to see that! I’ve been afraid to venture beyond anything that takes me more than 20min or so, just because there’s so many things I want to do and so little time to do it.
And I TOTALLY understand the “I don’t even have a reason… I just want to because I can” thing. Something about this machine makes it so easy to get an idea in your head and you suddenly have GOT to try it!
About the pieces—You’re talking the Hylian Shield (from Legend of Zelda) and the rose (from Beauty & the Beast)? They came from our family Glowforge Party the day after it arrived on my porch (which I now see others have already pointed out—thanks guys!). We were just trying to make random stuff quick so my brother found an SVG of the shield he wanted online, and my sister-in-law had a picture of that flower on her phone (which I had to tweak some of the contrast in photoshop).
@jamesdhatch My wife and I went to dinner the other night, and she looked at me and said, “You’ve warped me…” She was literally looking at random stuff around the restaurant going “Oh, we could do that on our 
… could you do that?.. we can make that, right?” and wanting to come home and make all kinds of things we have absolutely no need for.