Are your favorite sweaters covered with cat hair? Are there fur balls piled up in every corner of your home? & do you love to make quirky & one-of-a-kind crafting projects? If so its time to throw away your lint roller & curl up with your kitty! Crafting with Cat Hair" shows readers how to transform stray clumps of fur into soft & adorable handicrafts. From kitty tote bags & finger puppets to fluffy cat toys picture frames & more these projects are cat-friendly eco-friendly & require no special equipment or training. You can make most of these projects in under an hour-with a little help of course from your feline friends!" ...

Provocative & enlightening Richard Sennetts The Craftsman" is an exploration of craftsmanship
- the desire to do a job well
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Originally published in 1931 this book formed part of The Craftsman Series which aimed to give secondary school age children an insight into 'the development of constructive activities in the sphere of material things'. James Nasmyth (1808-1890) was a Scottish engineer who made an integral contribution to the industrial revolution through the invention of the steam hammer. The text is comprised of extracts from the complete version of The Autobiography of James Nasmyth (1883). These extracts offer an engaging account of Nasmyth's life & work beginning with his early experiences & moving through his major achievements as an engineer. An editorial preface glossary & illustrative figures are also included. This is a highly readable book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in Nasmyth mechanical engineering & books for schools. ...

Tormented every morning by leopard & bullied by crocodile the clever little chameleon decides to play a trick on them. He manages to get the better of his two oppressors without them even knowing how he did it! This is the story of why Crafty Chameleon changes colour & hides when he hears you coming. ...

Impress your friends & loved ones with your cake-decorating skills by using this fun & fabulous collection of ingenious cupcakes. Ideal for a wide range of celebrations the 30 unique cupcake projects cover a vast range of popular themes. No prior knowledge is needed as all the basic techniques are fully explained & beginners will be amazed by the fantastic professional-looking results they can achieve with the help of the step-by-step colour photographs featured throughout. Learn how to make basic cupcakes shape & make models from sugarpaste make buttercream & royal icing & use a variety of piping techniques amongst other things. ...

This great book contains 28 quick fun things for 2-5s to make grouped into three categories: Farm Animals Sea Creatures & Trucks/ Trains/ Planes. All the projects use things easily found around the house eg. wool stickers paper plates tissue paper foil etc. Grown-ups read out the simple instructions & do any cutting or preparation. Toddlers look at the finished article pictured in the book & then create their own masterpieces experiencing a real sense of achievement in the process. The activities help develop hand/eye co-ordination & motor skills. Extension activities are included so older children can join in the fun. Because of the collaborative nature of the projects the book encourages parents to spend quality time with their children. ...

One night George Duncan
- decent man a good man
- is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly a great white crane has tumbled

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From diggers to loaders learn how these big building machines work & why we use them. There is a final review page that helps test childrens learning in a fun way. This title

Features: bold bright photographs; high-frequency words; & easy-to-read text.

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Part of Penguins" beautiful hardback " Clothbound Classics" series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Gaskells best known work is set in a small rural town inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation & gossip at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns & her sister Miss Matty. But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster imagined burglaries tragic accidents & the reappearance of long-lost relatives." ...

This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " Cranford" by Elizabeth Gaskell. Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs making such a graceful bow in reply to which I dropped a curtsey
- all foreigners have such polite manners one catches something of it. " Cranford" is an affectionate & often moving portrait of genteel poverty & intertwined lives in a nineteenth-century village. One of Elizabeth Gaskells most beloved works it centres on a community dominated by women & governed by old-fashioned ways. The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns & the kindly Miss Mattys days revolve around card games tea thriftiness & an endless appetite for scandal until change comes into their world
- whether it is the modern ideas of Captain Brown a bank collapse rumours of burglars or an unexpected reappearance from the past. " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."

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