The carving process, however, left him with odd-shaped pieces of thick ostrich shell that he didn't know what to do with - until now. The scrap shell has become like scrap paper to him.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Eggs can be scrambled, fried and whipped into a meringue. However, in Carla Ute Kelly’s Ouray home, eggs double as night lights or fountains. For more than three years, Kelly, ...

Alan W. Rabon displays an Ostrich egg among finished and unfinished goose eggs at his home on Thursday, April 13, 2017. Rabon has been carving egg shells for 15 years and enjoys doing it because ...

The 53-year-old Filipino American now lives in the Philippines, where he has spent the past few years carving a 20-year prison diary into the surfaces of dozens of ostrich shells. The diary ...

Egg Carving Artwork. In Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties in China, people had the custom of presenting red eggs as a gift on weddings, birthday parties and child birth celebrations.

TAMAR HODOS: Well, the ostrich egg carving is a popular activity in the United States, in particular in North America, and also in the Far East in China. There has been an Egg Crafters Guild of Great ...

I mean, if this is about pumpkin carving, then I need to pick my perfect pumpkin. This ones pretty nice! ... of an ostrich egg so then I had to get Sola involved.

(Image: The Portolan and the Washington Map Society) You could hold the whole world in your hands if you cradled this ostrich egg. Its carved surface shows what is thought to be the oldest ...

Whenever he has time, a farmer in Beiwu village in Guangping county of Handan, Hebei province, immerses himself in the art of egg-carving, a traditional folk art that involves engraving and painting.

A recently discovered globe from the early 1500s, carved onto ostrich eggs, may be the oldest globe of the New World ever identified, experts say. Latin inscriptions dot its surface, and two small ...