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Aren’t these gorgeous, vintage-y patterned book covers fabulous? When I saw them at Goodwill, I knew I had to figure out a way to work them into the decor for Piper Jane’s pink and yellow room! Since I already had grand plans for a wooden “Piper” sign, but hadn’t settled on a way to add “Jane” to the mix (and especially since we usually call her Piper Jane, not just Piper [following Burke’s lead on that one- funny, right?]), these ended up being the perfect solution to my name-sign decor issues.
Do you need a row of ruffled books to spell something in your house as well? You’ll need:
-vintage-y books with fabulous covers (like I said, I found mine at a thrift store), the same number of books as letters in your word
-a pile of no-sew jersey ruffles (about 20 ruffles per letter)
-1″ x 4″ cardstock rectangle (one per book)
-hot glue gun and glue
-brackets for hanging
Find some books with fabulous patterned covers at your favorite local thriftstore (hint- these are Reader’s Digest Condensed Novels; our Goodwill always has a whole section of them!).
Secure a bracket to the back of each book.
To ensure that the book doesn’t swing open, hot glue one end of your cardstock rectangle on the front page of your book. Wrap the cardstock around and glue onto your back page as well. Next, glue your front cover and your back cover to the cardstock. Hold up your book to make sure it doesn’t open.
Glue ruffles in the shape of each letter to the front of each book, spelling your message.
Hang your row of ruffled books on your wall and admire! Perfect!
Good gracious, this is cute!!! You guys are killing me! I just love it. I could go on all day about how much I do…
wow.. i just love this!
totally gorgeous!
~selina
This is so great!! I love it.
this turned out so pretty. what a great find in those books.
This is gorgeous 🙂
this is so great!!! i love all of your ideas, but these decorating with books projects are my favorites!
Fabulous!! Have I told you lately that I LOVE your blog?? 🙂
flipping AWESOME
A.W.E.S.O.M.E!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS!
Totally gorgeous! I love this! I love ya'lls blog too….you always have the greatest stuff!
That is really cute. Now if only I could figure a way out to make something like similar work in a teen boys room.
But do you know what? The pink RD condensed book with Little Women is same exact one I grew up reading. We had the whole set for that year. Mom passed them on to us when I got married 20 years ago but we gave them away just prior to this move as we just didn't have space any longer. It brings back many happy memories!
That is so cool!!! I love the wood cut board above as well.
Beautiful! I love books; something like this would be great above some of my bookshelves! Wonderful idea.
So perfectly adorable! What a fabulous idea!!! LOVE it!
I love this! I def want to add this to my daughter's nursery! Thanks for sharing!
those are soooo cute! I really like the piper one. freaking adorable.
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I just found your blog today. You two are amazing. I LOVE the book/ruffle monograms. How in the world do you think of these things! They are wonderful. I'm so happy I found you.
Goodness GRACIOUS I have been searching the web for MONTHS to find this post! I stumbled upon it and then lost it! I had been searching google for "piper + reader's digest" etc….nothing came up!! SO HAPPY I finally found this post so I can go ahead and appropriately link it in my blog post!!!
http://ordyandjoon.blogspot.com/2011/02/1923431-things-to-do-with-1923431.html