r/Snowglobes

I only got this like two years ago and noticed that it looked as if the gasket plug was moving out of place on one side but upon opening it up the gasket hasn't moved at all, what I did find however is on the side it looks like it's rising up on the gasket is yellowing and hard. I'm not understanding how this happened within a few years and I'm even more concerned because I'm not sure how I'm supposed to replace this when inevitably fully degrades (I assume it's some kind of dry rot not sure how or why it happened but it makes sense)

As this is a rotating globe if it's going to be replaced it has to be the type of gasket that rotates but I can't find those anywhere

Scooby is finished.I’ll share the details later, but for now I just wanted to show where it landed—calm, clear, and settled.Aside from gravity, Scooby Doo: Bedtime, should have a long, gentle life. ❄️✨

Never knew about this sub before, but I felt like sharing these things I've picked up from my travels over the years, with only one of them technically being a snowglobe, the others being this water globe thing with sea lions floating atop this blue heavier-than-water blue goo, and a 'fog globe' from the Redwood Forest in California, more specifically this museum somewhere in the middle of them on the highway, never seen anything like it.

A restoration log, for the record—and for The Hundred Acre Wood.

1. Air bubble removed, from globe figurine, and glitter.
2. Glitter cleaned and de‑bactered, then reintroduced with intention: extra shimmer and small gold hearts meant to vanish beneath the grass once the globe clears. Finished with a half‑and‑half simple syrup so the glitter falls in two tempos—upper and lower atmosphere.
3. Pink ears repainted, inner figurine washed and resealed.
4. Stopper gently diminished—no force, just persuasion.
5. Trunk and foliage repainted, base resealed.
6. Narrative embellishments added: a nod to the episode where Eeyore follows a butterfly, a single flower (a Ferdinand moment), and a ladybug placed to form a visual triangle between Eeyore’s nose, the butterflies/flower, and the ladybug. Eeyore was rotated to a more compelling part of the trunk for better visual storytelling.
7. Final seal: stopper resealed, inner chamber checked and secured, globe seated back into place.

Aside from gravity—and its eternal opinions—Eeyore should enjoy a long, gentle life. 🫧✨

The creative calm before the kudos of creative confetti chaos that is to come.

I got this snowglobe at Universal Studios a few years ago.

Ordered it on eBay a week or so ago and it arrived today. It was running late which typically means it’s arriving broken with apologies from the post office. It arrived in one glorious piece!

My dog knocked my wife’s favorite snow globe off where can I get it repaired in the US

I don’t usually do this—I never start working on one globe while another is already open on the mat. That’s one of my rules.

But today, I looked up and saw the photos… Eeyore sitting there, looking so impossibly sad, and something in me shifted.

So I just… decided. I was going to fix my Easter globe.

It wasn’t planned. There was no checklist, no ceremony. Just that quiet pull that happens when something asks for care at exactly the right moment.

Rules bend sometimes—not out of recklessness, but out of compassion.

And today, compassion wore bunny ears and needed a little help finding its swirl again.,

I painted and resealed the base and Eeyore.

I set the glitter for washing and did the first polish of the inner globe..

tomorrow-ish I’ll decide the swirl pattern lock everything in and reassemble.

Is it becoming to have a waltz woven through your snow‑globe collection if you don’t actually know how to waltz**…** or is loving the sway enough? and ah One -Two-Three-.

Some acquisitions from my recent trip to Guangzhou and Hangzhou :)

Realized that an overwhelming majority of Chinese cities doesn’t have snowglobes (landmarks) as souvenirs . That’s sad for landmarks collectors like me :(

I was experimenting with different swirl patterns when this one announced itself with purpose.

This wasn’t just a globe—it wanted a job. To smoosh insomnia, if needed.

Or gently teach my sister’s offspring how to sleep.

I didn’t want it to take many tilts. Weight and balance mattered.

The stars needed to stay in the sky—not fall all at once. I wanted the occasional shooting star,

just enough movement to remind you the galaxy was alive, but unhurried.

The final requirement mattered most: after a full, proper night’s sleep, the globe had to return to crystal clarity.

Calm.

Still.

My sweet spot landed at six to eight hours—long enough to reward rest without lingering chaos.

And over time, as materials naturally shift, I wanted that clarity to arrive a little sooner.

Aging with grace, not degradation. To make that work, it needed the ability to sort of stir itself.

This is a globe meant to be tilted once, maybe twice. Then left on the nightstand. Music on, phone off.

You watch.

You settle.

I’ve been sleeping with this globe for over a month now, and I truly love it.

All globes are rare in their own way, but this one is a little trickier to find—still out there if you’re patient.

It plays Brahms’ Lullaby, that universal hush that tells the nervous system it’s safe to power down.

Paired with the slow swirl, it quiets the room without demanding attention.

Less object now, more companion. A signal that night has arrived, and nothing else is required.

P.S. She glows in the dark—just a little.

$4 (the one on the right

If you’d be willing, we’d love to ask for the privilege of featuring one of your globes as our icon or banner.

It would be an honor to showcase your piece as part of our community’s visual story—but only with your blessing, of course.

Either way, thank you for sharing your scape with us. Just Add the banner icon flare.

So I need help finding a glitterglobe from my childhood. This is the piece that was in the middle, I don't have a picture of the base but it was a continuation in pattern and color to the castle piece. It had tiny iridescent glitter pieces (pieces of it are visible on the 3rd image) and was also a music box, but I don't remember the tune it played. It had a general "made in china" golden sticker at the bottom.

I got it from a local garage sale in the early 2000s in the US, and it seemed a bit faded when I got it. In the 4th image you can see a faded pink and blue/purple along the castle, and the yellow was probably white or off white? There's rock designs on the bottom with vine-y flowers, which I believe was a part of how the base looked.

Please let me know if you have any questions to help me find it. Even an image of what it is with the base would help so much, I'm unable to reverse-image search because I don't have the base.

I guess for now., I’ll Easter. - Me