Design Your Own Charm Watch

Ask any fashion maven: Charms and charm bracelets are hot. Celebrities flaunt them, publications like InStyle, Teen Vogue and The New York Times feature them - even new businesses called "charm bars" have opened to meet the demand. There's good reason for this resurgence: wearing personalized charms around your wrist is like wearing the tiny, tinkling story of your life. Design Your Own Charm Watch is a timely twist on the charm bracelet trend. It comes with an attractive analogue watch (hands on a dial, not digital) on a band of adjustable link chain, along with a good supply of charms, beads, bead wire and jump rings. Follow the illustrated step-by-step instructions to create a uniquely charming timepiece. Complete your watch using just the provided supplies or follow the book's direction to incorporate your own special found objects such as seashells, buttons, pretty stones, orphaned earrings, and so forth. For inspiration, specific how-to's are given for four fun theme watches (Beaded Blossom, Seaside, Fashion and The Kitchen Sink) but, really, the sky's the limit. Isn't it time you got creative? Comes With: 1 bracelet watch, 12 charms, iridescent glass beads, 20 jump rings and bead wire. Awards: Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award.

12 cool watch straps to make and wear. Create your own totally unique watch to match any outfit with this fun jewellery-making title. With step-by-step instructions for 12 gorgeous watch strap designs, plus tips on how to customize the ideas to make them truly your own, you can create a beautiful timepiece that really sums up your personal style. Included with the book is a free watch face that can be used as the basis for any of the designs, plus the materials needed to make a super-cute button strap watch to get you started. The projects range from very simple designs for first-time crafters, to more complicated projects for confident kids. There are ideas for charm bracelet-style straps, woven designs and bangle watches made from polymer clay. Inspirational photography shows how slick the finished makes can look. (Carries EU Toy Safety Directive 'CE' logo).

Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus collects the unparalleled writings of legendary British wordsmith Janet Abrams for the first time. From pivotal figures in international modernism to the pioneers of digital medium, Abrams explored the ideas, theories, and emotions that fueled their work. The book's twenty-six profiles, written in Abrams's signature, personal, often hilarious style, include Reyner Banham, Berthold Lubetkin, Philip Johnson, Paul Rand, Phyllis Lambert, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Muriel Cooper, April Greiman, and Michael Bloomberg. Many of the profiles are back in print for the first time, having originally appeared in Blueprint, I.D. magazine, the Independent, and in books and catalogs from the 1980s through the early 2000s. A foreword by Blueprint's founding editor, Deyan Sudjic, and new reflections by Abrams set the stage.

Hundreds of creative LEGO® build ideas, activities, games, challenges, and pranks! Winner of the Best Book category Creative Play Awards 2016, this superb LEGO build book inspires you to look at your LEGO bricks in new and exciting ways. Go on a LEGO treasure hunt. Create and perform LEGO magic tricks. Make a LEGO stop-motion movie. Build your own LEGO pet. Challenge your family to build the tallest LEGO tower—and much, much more! Featuring imaginative play and building ideas—from LEGO games that take just a few minutes and require a handful of bricks, to inspirational build ideas and activities to keep you occupied for hours. ©2020 The LEGO Group. All rights reserved.