Crafty Romance

I’m always fascinated by what folks do with romance novel covers on Etsy. If you have a giant pile of romances laying about the house (like sloths!) and you don’t know what to do with them (and really, who does know what to do with slothful romances?) here’s some Etsy-approved ideas for craftmaking.

Only the best covers can become pendants. But if it’s a woman’s backside, is it really gay? And if a gay tree falls in the woods, is there wood?

You can also make greetings cards out of them, though it’s always better if you (ahem) refrain from referring to them as “sleazy romance novels.” Sleazy. Wow. Haven’t heard that one deployed in awhile.

But if you’ve got a ton, and I mean a TON of romances you want to display and not nearly enough bookshelves to lovingly place each one face-out on the shelf for maximum admiration, how about…furniture?

Get your Mod Podge and Get Crazy: side tables and coffee tables everywhere are absolutely screaming for this treatment.

I have to say, that’s kind of awesome and I’d totally podge the dickens out of a bedstand with romance covers—but not as a coffee table. All the cardstock edges would make the surface uneven, and what if there’s a glass of wine on the coffee table?

So, what crafty things have you seen done or wish you could do with books that you’re not going to read but have wonderful cover art?

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  1. heathero says:

    I took a couple of old skool romance covers (mullet and all) and glued them to a light switch plates (cheap plastic ones I bought at Lowes). I put a coat of polyurethane on top and gave them as gifts one year to my other romance-reading friends.

  2. Maddy says:

    So it’s your faults so many of the covers are missing from the trashy romances I pick up at the library free table!  I knew something was up.

    My friend and I realized those books would be good for laughs, so we’ve started collecting them.  In a few short months I have acquired, for free, an appalling number of them—and the covers are the best part.  Being second-plus-hand books that the library receives from people ditching the ones they don’t want may account for the missing covers, but I’d like to think they were deliberately removed…

  3. Maddy says:

    *frowns*  That wasn’t worded right at all.  It makes it sound like I think they’re all trashy… which I don’t.  Frankly, I adore romance novels—the good, the bad, and the ugly, and have indeed been collecting and reading them maniacally.  It helps that I’m something of a bibliophile.  The aforementioned friend is still skeptical, but the first few let me pleasantly surprised (I will admit to having thought them trashy at first, and some of the older ones WERE a bit questionable), and the rest left me utterly hooked.

    Sorry about that—no disrespect or insult was intended.  I always speak—and type, apparently—before thinking.

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