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Needle Felted Cat and Mouse with Glass Eyes
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Here is another sweet felted cat by Paula Markey from Kennington, Australia. This striped feline is accompanied by a little mouse of equal character. To add additional depth and character to her sweet felted creations, Paula adds glass eyes with wire pin posts form handmadeglasseyes.com. This cat uses these realistic green and brown cat style eyes, in particular. The eye on wire pin posts are perfectly suited for needle felted creations. To add them to your creatures, simply place a dab of glue at the end of the posts and insert it into the fibers of your sculpture at their...
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Marcia Hightower Brings Her Stained Glass Creations to Life with Glass Eyes from handmadeglasseyes.com
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Marcia Hightower of Albany, Oregon creates fun stained glass projects that are giftable joys to behold. This fun project, inspired by Dreamworks' Minions characters,combines cartoon and traditional stained glass styling for a fun window hanging that is sure bring smiles. These characters are made complete with these teal human colored glass eyes, and these dark brown human style glass eyes. Marcia then used these dark brown horse glass eyes complete an adorable puppy stained glass piece. Whatever Marcia makes next is sure to surprise and delight! If you're interested in finding some glass eye designs to add some additional character...
Felted Rabbit Made with Brown Glass Eyes
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Dianne from Andrews, NC created this stunning felted rabbit sculpture, and brought it to life with these brown glass eyes. The glass eyes added to this light brown hare are form our wire pin post collection. These eyes are specifically designed for felted creatures. To add the eyes, simply add a dab of glue to the end of the wire post, and insert into the felted sculpture. The glue will grab onto the felt fibers as it is inserted, and after the glue dries the eyes will be securely held in place. Click here to shop all glass eyes on...
- Tags: animal eyes, glass eyes, needle felting
Fabric Lizard Completed with Glass Dragon Eyes
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Janet from Pflugerville, TX made this fantastic fabric lizard for her daughter's "lizard wall" and shared it with me. I just had to show it to you. This fantastic creature is brought to life with the final touch of these glass dragon eyes in teal and gold.
- Tags: dragon eyes, glass eyes, lizard, sculpture
Grasshopper Weathervane Restoration Project with Green Glass Bug Eyes
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One of the many exciting things that the handmade glass eyes from handmadeglasseyes.com are use for is antique restoration projects. It's so cool to see original dolls, metal works, and more from decades ago brought back to life with a new set of shimmering, vivid irises. To add a new touch of depth and character to his weather vane restoration project, William from Summerville, SC added a pair of these bright, shiny green robber fly compound insect glass eyes. The final results are excellent. Whether it's a metal sculpture, weather vane, customized art doll, or more, you can find a...