Girls' World: Making Cool Stuff for Your Room, Your Friends & You

by Joanne O' Sullivan

It's a cool, cool world when you're a girl—filled with fabulousness, fun ,and friendship. "Tween"-agers just adore showing how unique they can be in all they do. That's why any girl (even if she can't draw a straight line) will become a creative dynamo, bubbling over with imagination and ideas, once she takes a look at these hip designs. First, at a girl's room is her castle—so let her rule and decorate it like a queen! It won't cost a king's ransom when she crafts a big blue furry mirror with holographic stars, a lampshade with trendy beaded fringe, or painted drawer pulls. At fake fur-covered notebooks and a keep-everything-in-its-place locker organizer will make a splash. Nothing's more important than good pals—and they'll have a blast exchanging homemade lip gloss, glitter gel, friendship jewelry, and photo albums. From great things to wear to special gifts for friends, girls will delight in the more than 50 items they can make to celebrate the most important parts of their life. 8 1/2 X 11. all in colorWho's world is it? It's yours, girl! You've got great ideas and tons of imagination. So why not celebrate your creativity and style by making fun stuff for all the important parts of your life. Glamorize your room with a furry mirror, a sequined frame, a glittery light switch, a fabulous flower curtain for the door-everything will reflect how cool you are! Bring a creative spark into your school day by decorating notebook covers, embellishing a backpack, and even giving your locker a makeover so that it's the place to stop between classes. Friends are important to you, so be sure to create some stuff for them and with them at parties and sleepovers, whether it's beauty products or dream pillows. And because you've got it all going on, don't skip the projects that are all about you! Dress up T-shirts and flip-flops, create jewelry, and put some pizzazz into accessories. You really can have (and make) it all!

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Melissa Wehunt · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a fairly good craft book. There are good explanations of how to use things in the beginning of the book (i.e. glue gun safety) and lots of ideas for crafts...but the way the book is formatted makes it hard to get interested. It's crammed with lots of words and not enough pictures.

Also, I would recommend this book for mom's wanting to do stuff with their daughters not for community/classroom use, like a library program. Most of this stuff requires making large alterations to furniture type stuff and is not feasible to do in a library setting.

Crafts I might use at some point in the library:
"Top Secret Journal" pg. 58
"Mad about Magnets" pg. 63
"Locker Mirrors" pg. 68
"Friends Forever Jewelry" pg. 70
"Lip Gloss" pg. 74
"Perfume" pg. 75
"Glamour Glittler" pg. 76
"Hair Flair" pg. 97
"Bracelets Beaucoup" (safety pins, buttons, etc. pg. 108