Design Your Own Charm Watch

by Klutz

Ask any fashion 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 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 1 bracelet watch, 12 charms, iridescent glass beads, 20 jump rings and bead wire. Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award.

26 pages, Spiral-bound

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Klutz is a publishing company started in Palo Alto, California in 1977 and acquired by Scholastic Inc. in 2002. The first Klutz book was a how-to guide titled Juggling for the Complete Klutz, which came provided with juggling beanbags attached in a mesh bag. The book was created by three friends who graduated from Stanford University: Darrell Lorentzen, John Cassidy, and B.C. Rimbeaux. Since then the company has continued to specialize in activity-driven books sold along with other items needed for the activity. Not all the books are about developing a skill; there has also been a geography book containing, among other physical attachments, packets of rice corresponding to the average daily caloric intake among the poorest people of the world. Many of their books are spiral bound and teach various crafts. The items needed are usually included with the book, e.g. the juggling guide. The Klutz credo is: Create wonderful things, be good, have fun.

Source: Wikipedia.