News & Spotlights — creativity

Rick R from Stillwater Lake, Canada emailed us pictures of his amazing driftwood creations, outfitted with eyes from our 16mm Bird Glass Eye Bundle, Electric Lime Green Dinosaur Eyes, and Light Green House Elf Fantasy Eyes:⁠ In his email Rick said, "Hi Megan,⁠ Thought I would send a couple of pics of my Driftwood Creations with your eyes, the eyes make a huge difference. You may like to see some finished products with your eyes :)⁠ Rick"⁠ We love how the eyes bring life to your driftwood sculptures, they are amazing and inspire our imaginations! Keep on creating!~ Megan   About the glass eyes from handmadeglasseyes.com:...

Scott N. sent us these rocking pictures of his guitar, outfitted with 16mm Glow in the Dark Zombie eyes.    "My Glass Eyes Are Gonna Get Loud! I purchased a set of glow-in-the-dark zombie eyes for my guitar’s volume and tone controls! I just wanted to share. I used Gorilla Glue 2-sided mounting tape cut to a smaller circle than the 16mm eye, and it really added to the depth of the eyes look. Thank you so much Scott for sharing this stellar project with us!   About the glass eyes from handmadeglasseyes.com: All artisan glass eyes are original graphic...

Time for creativity: if you're a creative person, then there's never enough of it. But here's the thing: just because we aren't always able to fit large blocks of creative project time into our weekly schedules doesn't mean we can't get creative (see what I did there?) and brainstorm ways we can still infuse it into our day-to-day activities. My fellow creatives, hear me out. I am with you! How I yearn for endless hours of unstructured time for working on my creative projects and building on a mountain of ideas that I can never seem to get to in order...

Morris C. of Oro Valley AZ, write stories for his grandchildren. To illustrate the characters within the stories, he creates caricature sculptures for the critters within them. "I sculpt each one of the critters and plants from clay and then paint them," Morris explains, "Then, I put them in a setting to match the story and take a photo that is then inserted in the story." (Photo of a Watersnarfer with these blue glass eyes.) "I enjoy coming up with the caricatures to match the stories and sculpting them," Morris wrote to us in an e-mail, "Your glass eyes really make the...

Pamela Malouf of Kingman, AZ shared her fantastic, mixed media art with us.   This mixed textile piece, "Vortex Visions," is a brilliant mix of of fabrics, glass eyes, and additional elements that give the artwork a 3D effect. Can you find all of the eyes? There are actually 5 thoughtfully places glass eyes. Two of them are sew-on eyes in lower left corner, plus 2 blue eyes and one brown eye glued on around center. It's so exciting to see our glass eye designs incorporated in artworks like this! About the glass eyes from handmadeglasseyes.com: All artisan glass eyes are original graphic designs designed...