Monday Sept 8: Forbes Faberge Egg Contest Starts
Next weekMonday, September 8, we'll be starting up the long-awaited Forbes Faberge Egg Contest. You may have seen the teasers in the newsletter and it is most definitely coming soon.
We want to see what amazing decorated eggs you can make. The egg can be real or it can be plastic. The decorations can be traditional or it can be very modern. The materials are up to you and can include high-tech touches. Just don't be subtle about it as the original eggs were completely over the top. You can read more about them here and here.
We'll announce the prizes next week along with the rest of the details of the contest.
Edit: The traditional way is to blow out a real egg to cut open and decorate. Check out Steps 1 and 2 in this Instructable from KaptinScarlet for a quick tutorial.
Discussions
11 years ago
lol this is funny i like the spike thing im gonna make one! except i wont enter it in the contest ill just throw it at my sisters ugly boy friend. lol not well i could
11 years ago
Heh.
Reply 11 years ago
:D That is extremely awesome looking.
Reply 11 years ago
And spiky! Ouch!
Reply 11 years ago
It's drawn blood before.
Reply 11 years ago
Thanks =D
Reply 11 years ago
Wow! A spiky egg!!
Reply 11 years ago
Think fast!
11 years ago
Can the egg be wood ? I have one about the size of an ostrich egg
Reply 11 years ago
I am serious, I have a rather large solid wooden egg....can I use this?
Reply 11 years ago
Well I can not answer you in any official capacity but after reading about the Faberge eggs I am having trouble discerning whether they were in anyway an actual egg. (Highly possible I just missed it, I do live life in a perpetual state of dizzyness) So... along those lines I would think that you could use wood or whatever, as long as its clear the main focus is an egg, that it is visibly recognizable as an "egg" be it plastic, egg, wood, or whatever? I hope I can find the time to enter this one... so many ideas... so little time.
Reply 11 years ago
Ok, thanks. I have to get moving on it pretty fast though....the last one I did was much smaller and took a week or so to complete.
11 years ago
I CALL STEAMPUNK
Reply 11 years ago
Not if I beat you to it.
Reply 11 years ago
crud
11 years ago
Hate to sound stupid but... WHERE THE FLIP IS THE CONTEST?!?!?!
Reply 11 years ago
It's up!
Reply 11 years ago
Yeah!!!!
11 years ago
Okay, I made one instructable, and just waiting for the contest to show up so I can publish the instructable...
Reply 11 years ago
It's up
Reply 11 years ago
Thanks! And I JUST posted my instructable! :)
11 years ago
Heh.
Reply 11 years ago
EGGS !!!!
11 years ago
DOES ANYBODY SELL PLASTIC EGGS??? :)
Reply 11 years ago
Check charity shops and thrift stores :D
Reply 11 years ago
Left over easter eggs?
Reply 11 years ago
There are quite a few shops like this one...some probably local that sell them.
Reply 11 years ago
Cool! Thanks!
Reply 11 years ago
Umm, I don't have any... :(
Reply 11 years ago
Only real eggs...
11 years ago
Why did you delayed the contest?
11 years ago
EGGS EGGS EGGS EGGS EGGS EGGS
11 years ago
Yayayayay! I have an idea for this, I believe. Now where can I find plastic eggs? I must investigate.
Reply 11 years ago
Try the link above, the one that was posted by Goodhart.
Reply 11 years ago
Dollar store or maybe a thrift store. Or you can hunt down and mug a plastic easter bunny.
Reply 11 years ago
Now where can I find plastic eggs? I must investigate.
L'eggs is a popular brand of women's pantyhose which created a marketing sensation in the 1970s by placing its product in white plastic chicken egg-shaped containers (albeit much larger) and garnering shelf space in grocery stores.
11 years ago
Is it just me, or does this seem like a completely random pairing? Forbes & Fabrege Eggs? Oh, and does this mean that Instructables will be in Forbes? Yay :D
Reply 11 years ago
Malcolm Forbes was one of the largest collectors of Fabrege eggs and other Fabrege items in the world. About ten years ago he and many other collectors allowed their collections to be displayed at several museums throughout the US in one large exhibition. It was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
11 years ago
Yesss! We have dozens of plastic eggs around here. I'll probably be able to figure something out for this.
Reply 11 years ago
Could you send me a few? I haven't bought Legg's for a few months now and am fresh out of plastic eggs :-)
11 years ago
wait, i forgot, can you submit more than one instructable to a contest?
Reply 11 years ago
Yes.
Reply 11 years ago
oh, okay.
11 years ago
oooh can't wait, got sooooo many ideas,I live in Africa, am I eligible to take part
11 years ago
Ah-ha. I can't wait. This is going to be quite an experience.
11 years ago
Oh I have a few ideas already, you lot want over the top, you're going to get it...
11 years ago
Hmmm, since I only eat EggBeaters now, I must find either a substitute or a plastic one....
Reply 11 years ago
did you know egg beaters is low grade eggs all the eggs that dont make the grade end up as liquid eggs.
Reply 11 years ago
still the important thing is that they are pretty much "yolk-less" and therefor low in cholesterol.
Reply 11 years ago
Or do a Faberge EggBeaters carton...