Years ago when we were kids, I went to visit my cousin and she was upset.
"Some guys gave me a quarter and said 'here's a quarter, go buy yourself a life..."
I thought it over, then told her. "So why are you upset? Those idiots gave you a free quarter!"
The moral - Take a step back and see who came away with more.
As for plush business, I experimented with making my own eyes out of polymer clay. I rolled them so that I could cut the rolls for identical eye slivers.
It worked great in theory, but I hadn't worked out how they would attach. I tried making some into buttons, which warped the shape slightly.
Then the final test, sewing them onto a doll came. In short, the poor thing looks like a deformed muppet.
I'm going to keep trying though, I also don't think these eyes are the safest for kids since a good tug right now could pull one off.
Until I perfect the idea, these will strictly be used for art dolls until I get one to work the way I want them to.
I've also created molds for stuffed animal noses, and will be making my noses available at some point.
I'm still working out some kinks.
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