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Junk Drawer Engineering: 25 Construction Challenges That Don't Cost a Thing

Bobby Mercer · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback

There's no need for expensive, high-tech materials to test your engineering skills - you probably have all you need in your home junk drawer. Each hands-on project in this book will challenge you to come up with a unique solution to a specific design problem. Construct a Pasta Bridge strong...
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How to Celebrate Everything: Recipes and Rituals for Birthdays, Holidays, Family Dinners, and Every Day In Between

Jenny Rosenstrach · Ballantine
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the creator of the popular blog and book Dinner: A Love Story and author of the New York Times bestseller Dinner: The Playbook comes a warm and inviting guide with more than one hundred time-tested recipes and a host of inspiring ideas for turning birthdays, holidays, and everyday...
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Wise Craft Quilts: A Guide to Turning Beloved Fabrics into Meaningful Patchwork

Blair Stocker · Roost Books
Pages: 173
Format: Hardcover

Infuse your quilts with love--how to add your personal story and more meaning to your handmade quilts.In Wise Craft Quilts, celebrated quilt designer and crafter Blair Stocker shares ways to use cherished fabrics to make quilts with more meaning. Each of the twenty-one quilts featured here...
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100 Little Christmas Gifts to Make

Search Press Designers · Search Press Limited
Pages: 239
Format: Print book

The book is excellent value, containing 100 projects from some of Search Press's best-selling authors. The projects cover a wide variety of crafts from including papercraft, sewing, knitting, crochet, sugarcraft, felt decorations, jewelry making, cross stitch, mosaic making, decoupage,...
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Brick Cars and Trucks: 40 Clever & Creative Ideas to Make from Classic LEGO®

Warren Elsmore · Barron'S
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

LEGO builders, rejoice! The celebrated author of Brick City, Brick Wonders, Brick Flicks and Brick Vehicles is back with this new title that offers 40 original, ingenious, and unique buildable projects to make from LEGO pieces. In Brick Cars and Trucks, anyone with a drawer full of LEGO...
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DIY Dollhouse: Build and Decorate a Toy House Using Everyday Materials

Alexia Henrion · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

D.I.Y. Dollhouse is a lavishly illustrated guide for budding architects, builders, and designers, showing then how to build and furnish their own eco-friendly dollhouse, with an incredible eye for detail. The simple instructions cover everything children (and parents) need to get started,...
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A Complete Practical Guide to Caged & Aviary Birds: How To Keep Pet Birds, With Expert Advice On Buying, Housing, Feeding, Handling, Breeding And Exhibiting

David Alderton · Southwater Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Step-by-step instructions on birdcare in the home or outdoor aviary, with 250 photographs of types.
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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

Keith Houston · W W Norton
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated." -- Erik Spiekermann, typographerWe may love...
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Sleepover Girls Crafts: Super Science Projects You Can Make and Share

Mari Bolte · Capstone Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

Whether she's studying biology or confronting the school bully, Delaney's always organized! Join Delaney and the rest of the Sleepover Girls to create super science projects that fizz, pop, and bubble over with fun!
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The Slime Book

DK · DK Children
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback

More than 30 gloopy, gooey, colorful DIY slime recipes will mesmerize kids by showing them how to make slime!Play, poke, push, pull, and pop awesome easy-to-follow slime recipes, all of which use inexpensive, accessible, and safe everyday products. Create Monster Slime with googly eyes,...
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The Wide-Awake Princess

E. D. Baker · Bloomsbury USA Childrens; Reprint edition
Format: Book

Princess Annie is frustratingly (and luckily) resistant to magic. When her sister Gwen pricks her finger and the whole castle falls asleep, only Annie stays awake. Now it's up to Annie to find a prince to kiss her sister and break the spell. But who is her sister's true love? And what...
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The Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder's Guide

Pawel 'Sariel' Kmiec · No Starch Press
Pages: 424
Format: Print book

The LEGO Technic system opens a new realm of building possibilities. Using motors, gears, pneumatics, pulleys, linkages, and more, you can design LEGO models that really move.The Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder's Guide, 2nd Edition is filled with building tips for creating strong yet elegant...
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Christmas Ornaments to Crochet: 31 Festive and Fun-to-Make Designs for a Handmade Holiday

Megan Kreiner · Spring House Press
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Small in size, but big in design and holiday fun, each of these small, portable projects can be created in no more than a few hours. Crochet one or two for quick handmade ornaments, or create one of Kreiner's Christmas themed ornament sets such as The North Pole, Christmas Goodies, Fun in the Snow,...
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Crazy for Crochet: 70 Projects You'll Love to Make: Hats, Slippers, Sweaters, Bags, Pillows, Blankets, Potholders, and More

Lilly Secilie Brandal · Trafalgar Square Pub
Pages: 168
Format: Print book

A crochet hook and a few colorful balls of yarn are all you need to conjure up the prettiest accessories and loveliest garments - for adults and children, house and home, from easy to challenging. Everything you need to get started is right here: clear, detailed guidance through the basics...
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Darth Paper Strikes Back: An Origami Yoda Book

Tom Angleberger · Harry N. Abrams; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The hilarious, clever, and much-anticipated follow-up to the breakout hit, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda! It is a dark time at Ralph McQuarrie Middle School. After suffering several Origami Yodarelated humiliations, Harvey manages to get Dwight suspended from school for being a troublemaker....
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