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Wooden Owl Carving in Hallowed Out Log
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This incredible wooden owl by Pete Tucker is hiding in a 19 inch log hollowed out by wood ants. The final touch is a set of these glass owl eyes.According to Pete, "The eyes follow you everywhere!" About our glass eyes... All artisan glass eyes are original graphic designs Each cabochon is handmade with attention to detail and inspected for quality All products are made and ship from our studio in Spokane, Washington, USA Get your order FAST! All products ship within 1-3 business days All orders are shipped via USPS mail with tracking If you aren't happy with your order for...
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Restored Rocking Horse by Catherine Zappe
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Catherine Zappe from Harvest, Alabama restores rocking horses. To bring life to her final pieces, she uses these realistic glass horse eyes from handmadeglasseyes.com Life-like, glass animal eyes add dimension and gleam to Cathy's restoration projects. The finished and complete work is stunning. You can check out all of our animal inspired glass eyes here. The originally designs and handmade glass eyes found on our site are used for restoration projects such as this, as well as in sculptures, paper mache creatures, taxidermy art, custom dolls, mixed media, jewelry making, and beyond. If interested in trying some of our eye...
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...
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