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That was Then and This is Now.
One of my favorite personalized snow globe recently was simple and sweet. The picture on the front was a black and white photo, with three sweet kids standing in front of a hedge of bushes. The picture on the back was in color and showed the same three people, now adults. A sweet reunion of two sisters and a brother and displayed beautifully in a Snow Globe. When designing Snow Globes go to our gallery to see Custom Snow Globe, that is where there are very Personalized Snow Globes or Snow Globe. Or as the plate said, "That was then, this is now." Snow...
Music Snow Globe
Music Snow Globes that have the wind up music box in the bottom of the snow globe have been around for a very long time. The component that makes the music is typically a 18 note harp that is activated by winding it up. The music will play until the spring has to be wound up again. The music that is available is very limited in these wind up components and the availability is very undependable. A frequently asked question we get is if we have music snow globes with a specific song in them or could we put a special song...
The Idea Fairy Cometh.
One thing about making a custom made snow globe, is people always want to give you ideas on how you can make it better. We get requests from folks who think we should take their photos and make them into 3-D figurines, and find ways to suspend pieces of confetti so they never fall to the bottom of the globe. People say “wouldn’t it be cool if you put a little fan inside each globe so the glitter kept swirling and I didn’t have to shake it?” To all these people and their individual idea fairies, uh, thanks. ...
A Plug for the Competition - sort of.
Original Snow globe Factory in Vienna. You can look it up. These guys claim to have invented the snow globe and since none of us were around in 1900, we aren’t about to dispute that. Bravo for coming up with good idea and staying around for more than 100 years. If you are ever in their neighborhood in Austria, they have a snow globe museum that is supposed to be pretty neat. Apparently, they have also been asked to make a snow globe to commemorate the inauguration of each American president for the last five presidencies. Unfortunately, they got a...
My Snow Globe Broke!
While there are some folks out there who are die-hard snow globe/snow dome collectors (more on them later), a very high percentage of snow globes are given as gifts. So these water globes pack a double whammy – they are beloved gifts, but they also represent the ties between the gifter and the recipient.So when a glass globe breaks, it can get really emotional. It doesn’t matter whether it slips out of someone’s hands, or the cat knocked it off the fireplace, or whether the seals begin to give way over time, people tend to want a snow globe to...