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A citizen of Sichuan Province added a final touch on one of five 40kg-heavy and 68cm-high huge spinning-tops on April 24, 2007. The spinning-tops were painted with 5 colors featuring Olympic rings and symbolizing 5 continents. They are expected to be presented to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Link
The stone carving of lychee fruits is made of thousand-year-old natural shoushan stone (yes, this rare Chinese agalmatolite once was carved to a braised chicken). Link
The giant teapot made from fresh flowers was recently put at the Guan Qian Jie -- a famous walking and shopping street in Suzhou, China. Link
An 8-meter-high, 6-meter-wide, and 30-ton-heavy huge concrete teapot was finished in the Xu Fu Bo Chuan Mountain scenic spot (徐福泊船山景区) of Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, April 17, 2007. It took more than 10 constructors twenty days to build the pot. Link
A very rare Faberge miniature chair is seen at Sotheby's auction house, in New York, April 10, 2007, prior to going on public display. The chair is being sold along with Russian paintings, sculpture, silver and porcelain at auction on April 16 and 17 and is expected to bring between $1-1.5m.
A pair of life-like, vivid gourds, both in the shape of a swan exhibited by Wang Jinlong （王金龙）, a local farmer at a cultural relics show held in Xinyang county of east China's Shandong province on April 8, 2007. Earlier, someone had asked for this pair of gourds at an incredible price of 380,000 yuan (or 47,500 US dollars).Link
The super-large shoe, dubbed "Jiulong Xie Wang" or "King of Shoes," made its debut in Changsha in southern China's Hunan province. With nine different and lifelike dragons on the shoe, the shoe is embroidered in one of the famous Chinese embroidery styles, Hunan or Xiang embroidery.Link to CRI & CNMZ
It took 20 veteran craftsmen over two years to finish the 108-kilogram shoe which measures 3.28 meters in length, 1.2 meters in width and 0.68 meters in height.
The fake dollar note with one-million denomination recently appeared in the antique souvenir shops near President Bush's Crawford Ranch in Texas. Would you like to pay 1.25 US$ for such an item like nothing else but hell money? Link
These forty-one amazing Olympic carvings including one Beijing Olympics logo, five Fuwa mascots and thirty-five sport pictograms icons were carved by Wang Wei-jun (王卫军), a technical school teacher in Henan Province. It took him more than six months to complete his works which he plans to send to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as a gift. To well preserve them , Mr. Wang had dis-infected the egg using alcohol after the contents inside were siphoned out using the syringe. Link to Chinanews & Netease
This giant Ming-style armchair made of steel is 8.98 meters in height and 9.85 tons in weight. It stands at the square of a furniture mall in Suzhou (宿州) of Anhui Province in China. Link
As the 21-kilometer-long cement dragon was ceased to be built, this craft dragon measuring 5,056 metres long is deemed world's longest. It was built for a grand dragon dance performance on the April 10 Luoyang Peony Festival (洛阳牡丹花节) opening ceremony. Link
I can't like them more!A woman makes a flower arrangement with carnations decorated in the form of the Hello Kitty cat, during a photo opportunity at a shop in Tokyo April 3, 2007. Bouquets made up of these carnations, which are decorated with styrofoam ears, plastic eyes and nose and a ribbon, are sold at anything between 2,100 Yen and 26, 250 Yen ($18 and $222).
The 10-meter-long and 8-meter-high huge abacus made of grass and flowers are seen on Yongan Square in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province.
