Drawing, painting and stitching animals has always fascinated textile artist Mrs Bertimus who in her inspiring and practical guide shows you how to create colourful, contemporary, animal-themed stitched textiles with a quirky mix of vintage and whimsical style. Discover how to use fabric collage, gel printing and stencil to create playful dancing mice, crafty foxes, long dachshunds, a mouse in a spotty tea cup, a lonesome bear, acrobat mice plus masks, a hare brooch, making your own printing plates, composing with sticky notes which can be removed, swapped out or combined as you design and along the way tips and instructions to identify tones, refine your collage and choose your background colours and shapes and abstract designs. All the personalities of your characters or storylines can be captured in hand and free machine embroidery which is a very forgiving technique. More often than not, a 'mistake' can be quickly patched over for an exciting result! 128 very large pages by the crafty Mrs Bertimus aka Letitia Thompson. Extra large softback, hundreds of colour illus.

What could be more satisfying than making your own furniture and the sheer pleasure of using hand tools to cut a beautiful piece of wood with the saw, chisel or plane? Learn how the wood responds and become capable of reading the grain and find yourself seeing, imagining and feeling what will happen with each cut. Whether hard, soft, green or seasoned, choose the right wood from oak, ash, cedar, elm, tulip wood, Douglas fir, walnut and how knots make the wood trickier to use. This wonderfully practical book is aimed at anyone looking to balance their busy lives by mastering core woodworking skills. Build your skills and your tool kit as you progress through the five step-by-step projects - a work bench, hook, box, decorative shelf and chest. Learn about drilling and joining with screws, measuring and marking and getting things square, using the drill, marking up brackets, cleaning with herbs, using dowels, making the pegs and locking the surfaces together with joints, all explained in wonderful colour photographic sequences. 128 page extra large sized softback, packed with colour photos.

Beano and The Dandy gift box set and a companion to code 93691, become a real life film director and create characters and storylines and watch them come to life. The box contains 12 strips of plasticine ranging from green, blue, purple, grey, orange, brown, yellow, red, two white and two black, a tiny yellow envelope containing five jagged Sound Cards (Fazoom!, Fwump!, Blam!, Krash! and Pyonnnng!) First you'll need to find a phone app that allows you to create stop-motion animation movies with your phone. Place the Dennis the Menace black wall backdrop enclosed in your box and start your first scene. You can fold your backdrop to create street corners, cut out scenes from your favourite magazine and place them over the back drop and place the Sound Cards close to your phone lens to make a big impact! Includes a cardboard phone stand and long yellow plastic arrow for direction and animation. Time to get modelling and creative with this branded family fun item.

Put together your favourite family game Charades with real plasticine that does not dry out. Can you make a model of Dennis the Menace or the Statue of Liberty and will your teammates be able to guess what you've made before the sand runs through the timer? Elephant, aeroplane, dinosaur, chair, there are 54 challenge cards, a real sand timer and 12 strips of plasticine ranging from green, blue, purple, grey, orange, brown, yellow, red, two white and two black. Imagination is fun with this modelling-with-a-twist box set.

A 255 piece kit at Skill Level 3 for Challenging, put together the iconic pointed nose cone and use the real tools provided to build stage-by-stage the cockpit, body, wings all in white, red jet engines, black rubbery wheels, and tailfin with the distinctive red, white and blue British insignia. Designed for ages eight to adult and all engineered for the mechanically minded, it is made from sturdy metal plate with easy to follow parts and assembly instructions to develop the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, logical thinking, coordination, motor skills, shape recognition and memory. A supersonic box set we are thrilled to have this new product in stock ready for Christmas. Meccano compatible, CE Safety approved.

Oo la la, et arrivé prêt pour Noël! A 225 piece kit at Skill Level 2, Intermediate, measuring 32.5cm high when finished and made of sturdy metal plate in unpainted silver with easy-to-follow parts and assembly instructions to develop the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, logical thinking, coordination, motor skills, shape recognition and memory. Meccano compatible kit, CE Safety approved.

The box is decorated with an aerial combat scene complete with Luftwaffe aircraft ablaze. 316 piece kit at Skill Level 3 for Challenging, put together the iconic bottle green Spitfire with purple and red markings on its wings and iconic body and wing markings. Shiny metal nose cone and propeller, nuts and bolts in this Meccano compatible kit, the propellor actually swizzles around and there are retractable wheels and non-retractable gun turrets. Designed for ages eight to adult and all engineered for the mechanically minded, made from sturdy metal plate with easy-to-follow parts and assembly instructions to develop the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, logical thinking, coordination, motor skills, shape recognition and memory. A nostalgic box set, arrived ready for Christmas. CE Safety approved.

Super soft white furry soft toy which is all premade and ready to dress up with five craft projects for ages 4+. He has sparkly bright blue eyes, pink ears, rainbow coloured mane and of course best of all a long spiral golden horn in special shiny fabric. Youngsters can enjoy making a felt purse, wearing the satin tutu, adorning themselves with necklaces made of the pre-cut felt pieces of bows and flowers and decorating them with the felt and glitter decorations, beads and pipe cleaners all provided in this box set. Four pipe cleaners in purple and yellow, 30 beads in three colours, seven pre-cut felt pieces in four colours, three glitter felt sticker sheets, satin tutu and Unicorn plush toy which stands around 5" tall and 7" from tail to nose. Plus 16 page storybook and instructions. Nicely boxed. by Scholastic publishers UK.

Tower Bridge, Big Ben, and a terrier, the Eiffel Tower and a poodle using scissors and craft knives, sculpt these beautiful designs to create unique cards, gifts and stationery. Simply trace, fold and cut the designs which are perfect for scrapbooking and choose from over 150 quick and easy papercut animals, food, popular pastimes and iconic landmarks, suitcases, clocks and letterboxes, penguins, swans and flamingos, cupcakes and teacups, hibiscus and pineapples, a Japanese castle and the Taj Mahal, maple leaves and condors, hearts and shamrocks and birds and angels. Full size templates featured throughout this very large softback, blazing in colour. 120 large pages.

Journey into the woods to the evil witch's candy cottage, in this colouring book classic. The book begins with a ten-page retelling of the original prose story in its entirety. Then, the story is visually depicted in over 70 pages of beautifully-detailed pen-and-ink illustrations featuring cakes and sweets and gingerbread in the scenes to colour in, including evocative images of Hansel and Gretel's rural life, their wanderings in the forest, their imprisonment by the witch, their daring escape and discovery of a vast treasure trove and the witches house of course, beautiful birds, and forest scenes. With Korean illustrator Rosa's dazzling artwork known for her whimsical illustrations and detailed designs, the book contains extra-thick craft paper, and is ideal for colourists of all ages and skill levels. Double sided images, so we recommend you use a piece of paper in between. As a bonus feature, four Hansel & Gretel bookmarks are included to cut-out and colour. 25.25 x 25.12cm. Softback, 80 pages.