Sunday Browsing: FHFTeam edition, and the FHFTeam Giveaway

Tomorrow is the start of the Etsy Frit-Happens Forum Team Giveaway (wow, that's a lot of capital letters), where you could win some really beautiful prizes. The full details will be posted tomorrow, so check the FHFTeam blog on Monday for the start, but here's a sneak peek of the array of prizes,



Anyway, in honour of this, this edition of Sunday browsing features offerings from the FHFTeam that are a little...unusual, whether they're sculptural pieces, or just weirdly cool.

First is this from steampunkglass. Dude. It's a Rocket Ship necklace. Not only beautifully coloured and very pretty, it's also great for when you're bored on the train; just fly it around in your hand going 'Zoom!', and pretending you're the commander of a teeny starship. Awesome.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/55895765/glass-rocket-ship-pendant-sra-ooak

Beautiful deep red boro glass forms the basis for these stunning red lips earrings by flyingbead. The curve and colour of them reminds me very much of seaside rock candies - I think if I bought these, I wouldn't be able to resist a sneaky lick, just to see if they taste as good as they look:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/42414963/mwah-pair-of-luscious-lips-handmade

Another tribute to the kiln fairy feared and honoured by lampworkers. This one by HelenPetersBeads is adorable, but it looks like it wouldn't do you or your glass any good to cross him:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/48374234/kiln-fairy-needs-a-new-home-sra-p97-big

Isn't this bead by kibitz pretty? You're probably wondering why I've included it in my quirkly glass edition. Well, I'm too embarassed to go into the details, but go read the description, and you'll figure it out. Hopefully. Please don't come back here for an explanation if you don't *G* (Slightly mature).

http://www.etsy.com/listing/51258905/yoni-mature-honey-dew-lady-garden-glass

This necklace by nemeton is officially the tenth ugliest one in the world (according to the judges at the Ugly Necklace Competition), and features the fugliest lampwork beads that could be found. I'm happy to report that the next year, nemeton managed to reach the dizzying heights of the number one Ugliest Necklace. If you look at her other work in the shop, you'll be amazed that a single beader has the talent for both extreme fugliness, and delicate beauty.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/19632013/the-tenth-ugliest-necklace-in-the-world

 

I had to include this Lil Bit by bykeira. So much emotion and character is jammed into a tiny lampwork hamster that I have the urge to make him his own little home out of a matchbox; there's no way I could push a headpin through him and string him up *G*

http://www.etsy.com/listing/55806946/lettie-lil-bit-hamster-lampwork-bead-by