Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old & so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage cobb however might be the ultimate expression of ecological design a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it as an ecstatic house." The authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the oldest most available materials imaginable
- earth clay sand straw & water
- & blend them to redefine the future (and past) of building. Cob (the word comes from an Old English root meaning "lump") is a mixture of non-toxic recyclable & often free materials. Building with cob requires no forms no cement & no machinery of any kind. Builders actually sculpt their structures by h&. Building with earth is nothing new to America; the oldest structures on the continent were built with adobe bricks. Adobe however has been geographically limited to the Southwest. The limits of cob are defined only by the builder's imagination. Cob offers answers regarding our role in Nature family & society about why we feel the ways that we do about what's missing in our lives. Cob comes as a revelation a key to a saner world."

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Handa is searching for her grandmas black hen Mondi. Every morning she feeds Mondi her breakfast but this morning Mondi hasnt come for her food. So Handa & her friend Akeyo begin to hunt for Mondi. While searching they find all sorts of other animals. ...

Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket to take to her friend Akeyo. But as she walks carrying the basket on her head various creatures steal her fruits. A monkey takes the banana an ostrich the guava a zebra the orange an elephant the mango a giraffe the pineapple an antelope the avocado & a parrot the passion fruit. Handa walks on wondering which of the fruits her friend will like best oblivious to the fact that her basket is now empty. But then behind her a goat charges into a tangerine tree & fills Handa's basket with the fruit. Hello Akeyo " she greets her friend. "I've brought you a surprise." But when she lifts off her basket it's Handa who gets the biggest surprise. Akeyo meanwhile is delighted because tangerines are her favourite fruit! Eileen Browne also created " Through My Window" which was shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize (1986) " No Problem" " Tick Tock" & " Where's my Bus?"." ...

This is a bestselling picture book
- brought to life with an animated DVD! Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket for her
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Handbag Designer 101 is the bible for handbag designers or women who aspire to make their own bags. Included in the book are instructions for creating the fifteen essential bag styles-clutch hobo tote & more-made simple with easy-to-follow how-to illustrations suggested difficulty levels & color photography. Advice from famous bag designers & today's hottest indie designers accompany each pattern. Also included is the inside scoop on turning your handbag hobby into a successful business. From designing to making to marketing Handbag Designer 101 teaches you everything you need to know. ...

This creative card has a 3D handbag with sparkles on a pale lilac background in lilac with the message &8216; Happy Birthday&8217; on the front. The message inside this card reads &8216; With love&8217;. The card comes with a lilac envelope ready for posting. Approximate

Dimensions 19.3 x 8.8cm. Warning this card is not a toy & is unsuitable for children under 3 years due to small parts.

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This delicately decorated birthday card features a 3D illustration of a pink handbag with sparkles & bow below the words &8216; Happy Birthday&8217; in gold text. This card is blank inside for your own message & it comes complete with a gold envelope ready for posting.. Approximate dimensions: 22.5 x 11.5cm Not suitable for children under 3 years contains small parts which may cause a choking hazard. ...

The only thing women love more than their shoes is their handbag. Same winning format same obsessive style as the best-selling title Shoes. Handbags provides a visual feast of design luxury elegance & witty novelty through over 900 full colour photographs & illustrations & lively text. Anna Johnson author of Three Black Skirts brings her charm & style to chapter introductions & captions as she reveals the trade secrets of designers (in great interviews) & capture the It" bag that defines a period of decade." ...

Do you fantasize about Fendi drool over Dior & lust after Luella? This seasons must-have is not the latest it bag but this beautifully illustrated history of handbags
- guaranteed to satisfy the cravings of even the highest maintenance bag addicts. This book features the hottest designer handbag labels including Bottega Chanel Chloe Dior Fendi Ferragamo Gucci Lulu Guinness Hermes Marc Jacobs Yves Saint Laurent Luella Prada Mary Quant Paco Rabanne Louis Vuitton & more. It covers the development of every womans favourite accessory from the earliest animal skin pouches to modern day masterpieces illustrated with fascinating archive photographs vintage advertisements & bags to die for!
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This title provides information on this standardised system for surveying classifying & mapping wildlife habitats including urban areas. This item is due to return to print in May 2010. There are minor amendments but it is not a revised edition. JNCC have informed us that the new edition brings customers fully up-to-date with the Phase 1 technique & associated materials but no changes have been made to the classification itself including the alpha-numeric coding scheme habitat descriptions & colour mapping scheme. Appendix 8 of the handbook has been superseded by an enhanced & substantially expanded online product. Details of the correspondences between Phase 1 types & other mainstream classification systems are contained in an interactive spreadsheet which can be downloaded from website. Also available from this web page is an electronic Phase 1 colour palette style file that can be applied to Arc GIS shapefiles. ...