A possible sub for the Threadless loves: The joy of text.

Build something big out of all the emoticons. This alone isn't getting it.

Added some more emotes and moved them around to form a smiley face.

I can make out the smiley face but somehow the eyes look like they're a little too far from each other. and maybe you could move the :3 and :X up a bit so the mouth becomes rounder?

I've moved the eyes closer together and rounded the mouth as suggested. Any more suggestions for improvement?

how about to make a face with another color and a lot of characters? I mean make a similiar background to construct a face with those symbols.